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Trout-tacular!
Hi, I'm new to the list - a visitor from BC who wants to fish the crooked river tomorrow, with my wife. Are there any reasonably productive spots on the river where we can fish it without having waders? We're staying in Redmond but are willing to drive for 45min or an hour to get to a good spot.
Thanks,
Troutbane
Thanks, Trout-acular, for both your postings. We're looking forward to a good day on the Crooked. (My wife will be using hardware, but I'll be tossing flies.)
Tomorrow we want to try the Deschutes - somewhere not more than an hour's drive from Redmond. Any suggestions about where and what flies to use?
We were so impressed with how beautiful the river is. Lots of fish were rising, some of decent size. We each caught one trout and found people on the river very helpful about what flies to use. All in all it was a fine day. (It's a river I would love to get to know better.)Sounds like a good day. I have only fished the Crooked once and got skunked. I would definatly like to try it again.
No worries.
I haven't been on the Deschutes for trout lately, but this time of year you could huck some streamers around Benham Falls for some browns or get dinks all day around Bend, small dries (maybe PMD or BWO) and a nymph dropper; try the pocket water above Farewell to Bend Park or just below the spillway by the Colorado bridge. The Upper Deschutes between Little Lava and Crane is closed right now. You could also try around Warm Springs and Mecca Flat, that's about a hour drive from Redmond, couldn't tell you how the trout fishing is right now though. I've only been steelheading the lower Deschutes lately and I've been down by Maupin, sorry.
Hope this is of help
Troutbane, if you come back to the Crooked or the Deschutes, bring a size 14 green softhackle. That fly has been very productive for me in both places. On the Crooked I've also found a dry fly in an adams pattern but all black is a great trout catching fly. My lucky spot Mile post 18!