Had a nice day on the uppermost section of the Deschutes. A good number
of fish: small rainbows and brookies in the riffles, larger brookies and
whitefish in the deeper holes. Took some dinks on a tiny Adams, but most
of the fish liked olive soft hackles and (especially) beadhead pheasant
tails.
A yellow-rumped warbler started following me downstream from one
mid-stream deadfall to another for half an hour or so.... let me approach
him to ten feet or so.... toward the end, he seemed almost like a pet....
very cool, I thought.
Brookies are non-native, so I knocked two of the 12-inchers on the head
for dinner. They were delicious.
Stopped at a small lake on the way home and took a dip to cool off.
Ahhhhh....
Not much of a report, but here are a few photos:
Upstream:
http://tinyurl.com/aueq4
Downstream:
http://tinyurl.com/9jmfj
Well-chewed:
http://tinyurl.com/858q5
Day's best:
http://tinyurl.com/by35x
Dinner:
http://tinyurl.com/ddyru
Swimmin hole:
http://tinyurl.com/drl9e
JR