Hey Goblue. The Bend area has endless fishing opps that go beyond the Deschutes. Go to Google Earth and check out all of the lakes and streams in the area. I was up there last weekend, cold snowy and rainy with occasional brief spats of sunshine. I did not bother with the Deschutes. I hit the Crooked River and Prineville Reservoir. The Crooked was turbid and high and marginally fishable. No bites in an hour of fishing. I went up to the Reservoir to try for bass with a plastic worm. Still too cold for them. Only caught one in the back of a calm cove where the sun could get through to warm the water and the bottom. In another quiet cove a little later on I landed a 22" rainbow, while trying to catch bass with a plastic worm. I couldn't live in Bend, because I would be playing hooky from work to go fishing all the time. If you like to fish, living in Bend would be an awesome place.