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I was on my way to the Crooked River when I decided to call Fly and Field to see if they had a report. They steered me away because the flows were so high. So I headed over to the Middle Deschutes and the water was clear and the water level was very fishable.
I started off with pheasant tail and caught a very small fish at the end of my drift just as it started to swing. A little later I put on a prince nymph and caught a decent sized brown. Moved upstream and felt the pressure of a nice sized fish. I thought it was a lunker trout but turned out to be a hog of a whitefish. Fished the prince for awhile longer with no luck and switched to a hares ear and got two more. Just as it was getting dark I tangled my line so I cut it all off and slapped on a black wooley bugger with a few strands of flashabou. Fished the far bank swinging the wooley bugger and finished the evening with a 15" brown.
I had a lot of strikes that I missed so the fish are definitely biting. There were no hatches between 5 and 8. I wish I weren't working so I could hit some of the midday hatches but nymphing seems to be producing well too. By the way, all the nymphs I used were beadheads.
I started off with pheasant tail and caught a very small fish at the end of my drift just as it started to swing. A little later I put on a prince nymph and caught a decent sized brown. Moved upstream and felt the pressure of a nice sized fish. I thought it was a lunker trout but turned out to be a hog of a whitefish. Fished the prince for awhile longer with no luck and switched to a hares ear and got two more. Just as it was getting dark I tangled my line so I cut it all off and slapped on a black wooley bugger with a few strands of flashabou. Fished the far bank swinging the wooley bugger and finished the evening with a 15" brown.
I had a lot of strikes that I missed so the fish are definitely biting. There were no hatches between 5 and 8. I wish I weren't working so I could hit some of the midday hatches but nymphing seems to be producing well too. By the way, all the nymphs I used were beadheads.