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| Central Oregon Fishing Report |
| Written by Phillip Fischer | |
| Monday, 08 June 2009 | |
I spent the past week fishing Central Oregon. With the lack of fishing reports a notable theme, here's one for you! Rick landing a fish on Little Lava Lake Sunday, drove to Sunriver with 3 friends and had a great dinner and several bottles of wine Sunday night. Plotted game plan to catch many trout during the week.
Monday - Drove to East Lake. We were all moving slow that morning, so didn't arrive to the lake till 12:30. Got to the Hot Springs area of the lake and got out of the truck in increasingly heavy rain. Two steps towards the lake and a loud crack of thunder over our head. Retreated to the vehicles and left and drove across the valley towards Little Lava Lake. Arrived in heavy rains and strong thunder. This was to be a theme throughout the week. Made a sandwich, opened a beer and waited it out. At 3:00 the weather let up and Rob and I headed down into the Upper Deschutes. A nice mayfly hatch coming off and a number of heads up. Stopped to gear up and watch to figure out what they were taking. Selected a Baetis parachute and began to tie it on. About then a young fellow about 15-16 years old walked up to our spot and waded right into the run and began casting an indicator and nymphs over these rising fish, putting them all down. So after a bit of an educational discussion with this young man, clearly he’s not been educated in fly fishing ethics, Rob and I left and walked a ways downstream and found a flat water slow moving section of the river with PMD’s coming off. Waded in to almost the top of my waders and got all of my fly boxes wet. Picked out a no hackle PMD and worked over a nice rainbow and got him on the second cast. A nice 17 inch fat healthy Upper Deschutes rainbow. Caught one more Brookie about 12 inches and headed back to Little Lava Lake. Got out the tube and fished the lake till late evening. Caught one more 17 inch rainbow on a small black midge. Called it a night. 
Little Lava Lake
Tuesday – Headed to Hosmer about 10:00 and arrived to a heavy rain shower, but luckily no thunder. Rick hooked his first Atlantic on a Chronomid under an indicator right off the bat and then we fished for 3 hours with no further joy. Thank goodness for good raingear. Quit for lunch and then about 1:30 headed for Davis Lake where we met Fred from the Hook Fly Shop for an evening’s guided black bass fly fishing. Giver the nasty weather all day, our expectations were very low and Fred indicated that we’d be fishing all top water flies, and our expectations sunk lower. We made the run to one of Fred’s favorite spots and started casting large 6 inch long bunny patterns with a foam head. We cast no longer than 5 minutes and I hooked and landed a nice 4 pound bass! Fished for awhile longer and decided to head to another area. There we had five blow-ups and three fish hooked with none to boat in the next hour. Headed to yet another area and found the motherlode. Over the next couple hours we had about 20 blow-ups apiece and landed quite a few to about 3 pounds. Hooked several larger. Late in the evening I hooked a fish that totally slammed the fly and came completely out of the water on an explosion. I hooked him, and then just as quickly lost it…..dang, it was about 5-6 pounds and gave quite a charge on the take. That ended the evening on what was a great fly fishing bass day! We managed to dodge all of the evening thunderstorms and kept dry.  Rick, with Fred from the Hook Fly Shop, and a nice Davis Lake Bass Wednesday – Headed to the Metolious today. Strong storms were predicted all day and that dampened our enthusiasm. Stopped in Sisters for lunch and also by the Sisters Fly Shop for moral support and headed to the river. Arrived and did the tourist thing for a couple hours and finally got to the lower bridge about 3:00. Rigged up two rods, one dry and one streamer rod. Headed upstream through the camp ground in hopes of finding water that hadn’t been touched. Worked out on a log over a deep hole near fast water and noticed Green Drakes coming off with regularity, so changed flies and began working a small fish. He rose and smacked it about a half dozen times, but gauging that the fly was a size 10 and he was having trouble eating it, I concluded it was a really small, but eager fish! Continued working upriver and caught one nice redside about 13 inches on the Green Drake pattern. But the hatch was concluding and most of our time was spent working blind on runs and riffles. Rick hooked a nice fish a little later. Soon it was 7:00 and we thought we better rendezvous back at the car and head to Bend for dinner. On the way back I hit a couple of likely looking runs and hooked and landed my first ever Metolious Bull trout. A monster too….about 12 inches, but he fought valiantly and I was happy to add this species to my list here in Oregon. On the walk back we met up with a couple of young ladies who had just graduated from Wahington State and were on a road trip before joining the working world. They were in a quandry, having a nice bottle of red wine and no cork screw. I asked if they had a butter knife, which they did. So I showed them a trick I learned last year on how to open a bottle of wine with this butter knife. We left after being annointed hero status. Met the group back at the car and made it to the Pine Tavern restaurant in Bend with 15 minutes to spare before they stopped seating. Had a great dinner watching the pouring rain come down outside and made it back to Sunriver about 10:30 dog tired.
 Thursday – Rick and Yancey had to head home today. Rob and I were determined to get in a good day’s fishing, so we headed to East Lake. Arrived at 12:30 just as the thunderheads were building over the rim of the crater. No sooner did we step out of the car than the rain and thunder started, chasing everybody off the lake. Not wanting to whimp out so easy this time, we hunkered down in the car for a while to wait this storm out. Well 20 minutes went by and the thunder stopped and the rain softened and we got out, wadered up, rigged rods and float tubes and set out. By the time we got onto the lake the rain had stopped and we had the place to ourselves. We fished red chromomids under and indicator, and didn’t have too long to wait. I hooked a first fish in about two minutes and the fishing never slowed from there. We caught probably close to 50 in the next several hours, all on Red Chronomids. Rob took big fish honors with a rainbow and a brown that measured 18”. Most of the rest were between 10 and 16. We had a ball. It turned out to be the best weather of the week for a few hours. Arrived back to Sunriver in a raging thunderstorm that dumped quite a bit of rain in a short time. Fortunately we were warm and dry and had good cocktails in the house.
 East Lake Friday – We had been hearing very good things about Diamond Lake and Rob and I were determined to try it. The lake is about an hour and a half drive from Sunriver and we had hoped we could wait out this wet weather pattern before committing. As luck would have it, Friday the National Weather Service pegged the chance of thunderstorms at 50% at Diamond. Oh well, we had one day left and we left early to give it a try. We arrived to the South boat launch to a trailer hatch and waves hitting the shore about two feet high. Just a tad uncomfortable in a tube. So we headed around the lake and tried to find easy access with less wind and waves. We circled the lake twice looking for just the right spot, and passed the South boat launch one more time trying to convince ourselves that the wind was letting up. NOT! We saw lot’s of Bald Eagles on the drive around the lake. We ended up launching tubes on the Northwest corner of the lake and found a nice flat that looked like it should hold fish. I set up with a Chromomid and started casting. Fairly quickly I got a nice take and landed a fat 15 inch rainbow. It was noon and the wind was blowing hard, and it was overcast and threatening rain. But we kept fishing. Soon we spotted an occasional Callibaetis, and then more, and more and more. But no heads up. Weird. I changed over to a leech and Callibaetis nymph. Right away I hooked a real nice rainbow and worked him for a few minutes and got him to net. A very nice 21-22 inch fish, and best of the week. Rob joined in a little later with a couple fat 14-16 inch fish. Between us we landed about 6 or 7 and at 3:00 called cocktail and headed back to Sunriver. Terry and Haley invited us over to dinner and we didn’t want to be late. We arrived and had a great steak dinner and a couple of bottles of good Malbec before retiring very late into the evening back to the house.
 Saturday we made the long drive back to California. Vacation is done and work waits. Damn! |
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Central Oregon Fishing Report
Jun 09 2009 02:27:36 This thread discusses the Content article: Central Oregon Fishing Report
With the comments about the lack of fishing reports, I thought I would add one. I got the white screen on my first attempt, so posted this on the home page. I repeat my offer to post fishing reports on the home page if you're having difficulties posting due to the White Screen error. Email your report to me. Enjoy! Phil |
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From the Archives - Hud's First Fly
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Now I got this book a few days ago. The thing that impressed me about this book is that it had a chapter on bodies, a chapter on tails, wings, dubbing hackle ribbing and all that stuff. When it came time to tie a fly, they didn't just say "OK add some muskrat dubbing". They had already told me what it was and how to do it. All you had to do was refer back. I read this book in the mid day and evenings (when I shoulda been fishin a caddis hatch…rookie) so I figure I got it covered. I'm gonna tie a fly. Since I had pretty good luck on an Adams (and the book choose this pattern to tie) I was gonna make an ADAMS. I will kick tail.
OK outside where the light is good, got my glasses on, got the stuff that a friend gave me, got the brown and grizzly hackle and dubbing I bought, I am ready. Maybe just 1 Jim Beam and Coke to settle my hands.
Chapter one, put the hook in the vise… Got it done. 1 sip of Beam. Start thread, apply equal pressure and wind thread over the top and towards the eye… BOING Where'd the hook go. I applied equal pressure so it must have gone either straight up or straight down. 1 sip of Beam. There it is. How could it land in there. Oh well it will sink and I will get it out after I finish this drink. Get another hook. Who cares I got 98 of those babies left.
Got the hook in the vise and the thread started forward and back, trimmed excess, this ain't so hard. Equal "easy" pressure. I got this. Tie on 2 hackle point wings as shown on page 64. The wind had blown my book to the glossery while I was looking for that danged first hook. Page 64 …OK wrap here, figure 8 and wrap here. I got that. A sip of Beam. How is this bug gonna fly with one wing going to the front and the other to the right??? Big deal. The wings are out of the water anyway. Fish don't care. Just twist them a little. There perfect. A sip of Beam.
Tail??? That chapter never said that I had to hold grizzly and brown hackle at the same time and tie on separate sides of the hook. Remove some of the hackle from each color. The dad-gum brown hackle doesn't have long enough sections to make a tail. Oh well the grizzly does. It looks cooler anyway. Tail is on. Sip of Beam.
OK this dubbing looks easy. Wait, nobody ever said anything about wax. I gotta have wax? I ain't quittin now, where is the Vaseline?? There dubbing on, even twisted it all the same way . Wind it forward almost to where the wings are. Wait the thread is forward of the wings. How did it get there. Musta been the wind. OK there wind on the dubbing. Perfect. Sip of Beam.
Alright, all I gotta do is put on the hackle. Book says to get the correct length of hackle from each color. CORRECT LENGTH??? Yea right. THERE, THAT LOOKS RIGHT. Take that, NO FEAR. A BIG SIP OF BEAM. Strip off some at the bottom (I'm lovin that instruction) and tie facing back at a 30 degree angle. Yeah right. Me and Beam really know what a 30 degree angle is. That looks 30 degrees. Hurry and tie it before you change your mind. Perfect!!! Wrap the brown hackle 3 times behind and 3 times in front of the wings. That shouldn't be so tough. OOOPPPSS. That wing wasn't layin down a minute ago. A sip of Beam. Man this thing is lookin good. Tie it off (what a knot Beam and I made) and add cement. CEMENT no chapter ever said anything about cement. I gotta have some super glue here somewhere. I get up from my chair… WWOOOOOAAAA, I musta had more Beam than I thought. Here is some Super glue. A drop here… perfect. A sip of Beam and take it out of the vise.
ADAMS huh. Yeah right. Finish my Beam. UH OH where is that hook.
My wife hollars out side, Hud have you seen the glue from my finger nail kit. Not now woman, I gotta tie another of these Adams. Right after I make me one more Beam and coke!!!!!!!!!!!
Hud
