JR,

Nice report and I like the photos. Where is the middle Deschutes? I've
float fished the Deschutes in Oregon between Warm Springs and Maupin many,
many times, but access from a vehicle is limited, except from the
reservation side, and your photos are not of that canyon section in any
event.


--
Gene Cottrell
http://gene8.home.att.net

"JR" wrote in message ...
I had hoped to spend the day job hunting (revising the CV, etc.) and do a
number of other chores that have been piling up around here..... but,
well, no sacrifice is too great to make for a fellow roffian.... [sigh]

The secondary goal of the afternoon was to find some bugs coming off that
I could imitate with these boyos:

- flies: http://tinyurl.com/bszsj

So, just after 1:00 or so I started on a section of the river about 25
miles north of me. Once I actually made it to the water, that is, through
the rain of redwing blackbirds strafing me as they thought I was getting
to their nests in the cattails.

- river: http://tinyurl.com/8pepw

- sentinel: http://tinyurl.com/8yoep

I managed to hook maybe half a dozen fish and land three, but there are no
pics -- too hard to do while standing in the river -- it takes two hands
to put my camera into macro mode. :-) Seriously, these were tiny, tiny,
one-weight, East-Coast sorta fishes. g

No golden stones or salmonflies anywhere to be seen, just a few larger
BWOs from time to time -- all the fish took an Adams.

I fished a good long stretch of the river, then got sidetracked futzing
around, looking at a few cool things along the streamside:

1st cool thing: http://tinyurl.com/dbqnv

2nd cool thing: http://tinyurl.com/8gat9

3rd cool thing: http://tinyurl.com/dqd5f

At the next place I stopped, on the way back home, there were very very
few bugs coming off, no fish rising, and a bunch of people around, so I
pulled the plug after flailing about for a half an hour or so.

Wayne, glad to see from your post just now that they've got a handle on
your infection and things are looking up. Next trip out I'm actually
going to catch you a real fish......

Chin up,

JR