Middle Deschutes TR for Wayne

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

JR wrote:
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....
snip

That was a fun trip. Thanks.
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TL,
Tim
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"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]

Great report and great photos. Sorry to muck up your job hunting.

Thanks

Wayne

Nice TR accompanied by gorgeous cool things. Thanks.

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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.


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Gene Cottrell
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"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

Gene Cottrell wrote:

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.

It's that part of the river below the upper Deschutes and above the lower
Deschutes. :-)

Actually, there's some disagreement in the popular mind just where the
middle D begins. Generally, everyone agrees that it ends at Lake Billy
Chinook and the lower river begins at the outlet of Lake Simtustus. The
part you've floated is the top end of the lower river.

Many folks talk about the middle D beginning at Bend, others talk about it
beginning higher up, at the outlet of Wickiup Reservoir, and still others
think it it's everything between Crane Prairie Reservoir and Lake Billy
Chinook.

The place I fished is between Bend and Terrebonne.

JR

Thanks JR. I'll have to give that area a try sometime. I usually have a
day or 2 to mess around before the float, but usually go to the Metolius for
Fall River.

Gene Cottrell


"JR" wrote in message ...
Gene Cottrell wrote:

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.

It's that part of the river below the upper Deschutes and above the lower
Deschutes. :-)

Actually, there's some disagreement in the popular mind just where the
middle D begins. Generally, everyone agrees that it ends at Lake Billy
Chinook and the lower river begins at the outlet of Lake Simtustus. The
part you've floated is the top end of the lower river.

Many folks talk about the middle D beginning at Bend, others talk about it
beginning higher up, at the outlet of Wickiup Reservoir, and still others
think it it's everything between Crane Prairie Reservoir and Lake Billy
Chinook.

The place I fished is between Bend and Terrebonne.

JR