Recent content by Later Peter

You need to figure out: where you'll be fishing. How much you'll be fishing. How often you'll be fishing. What it is you'll be fishing for. How you'll be fishing (dry fly, nymphing, wet fly)... A GOOD class will offer you different types of rods (lengths, type of action, weights). This doesn't...

still too cold at night (& not all that warm in the day time) for the snake population. If you (& the canine) spend time at the more popular places (Big Bend) & there'll be less chance of seeing snakes. The vets in Prineville all have the vaccine. I have fished the Crooked River like 200+ days a...

hmmm. I guess posts like that are why it's so crowded... (funny, too, since I live here & fish the Crooked River about 250 days a year... probably why I don't know stuff)

I realize this is a delayed response but: the "powers that be" took out the lower irrigation dam. (it was kind of smallish) but it did change the flow of that area of the river... (however, the river's levels are quite low now & the weather has brought in fishing folks from all over the place...

That portion of the Crooked River is s l o w e r & deeper than the upper portion (Bowman Dam down to mile post 11). There are white fish but that's where you'll find trout that will take a dry fly. It's also quite pretty.