Central Oregon Fishing Report - Contributor Glenn Zinkus reports Lower Deschutes Trout and Steelhead. Crane Prairie Water Is Cooling While The Fishing Heats Up. Metolius Hatches Keep Getting Better. Weather Outlook Across Central and Eastern Oregon: There have continuing air quality issues in Central Oregon, including Sisters through much of the past week and currently Bend. Some of the incoming rain may help with this. There will be showers and thunderstorms in parts of the region on Friday, with highs topping out in the 60s. There is a chance of showers and thunderstorms on Saturday, with highs in the mid-70s through the high desert. Sunday will be partly cloudy with highs in the low to mid 70s, and Monday will be clear with highs in the low to mid 70s. The Deschutes River canyon area temperatures will be in the low 70s on Friday with a chance of showers, and then partly sunny and in the 70s through the long weekend. Lower Deschutes River: The Lower Deschutes continues with good fishing levels – at typical summertime levels. Flows bumped up and are currently at 3590 CFS at Madras. Flow is currently at 4,060 at Moody. Water is clear. Water temperatures near Madras remain in the range from 53 to 54.5 F – same lower range as last week. The flow regime continues with a larger blend of bottom water and less top water from the dam. Waters warm in the lowest stretches near Moody to a range of 60 to 64 F. Fortunately, the temperature range is dropping to safe levels. Getting to a better range in that lower river for steelhead. There is on and off overhead smoke in the canyon. That does create some conditions that the get the trout more active. There’s more talk of steelhead and steelhead activity now. A few anglers swinging small flies are getting some grabs. Middle Deschutes River: No new reports. The waters have been cooling. Jeff Perin reports some good fishing on the Middle D all the way to Lake Billy Chinook. Steelhead Falls area can be good this time of year. I do recommend mornings. Jeff says there are BWOs and caddis in the evenings. Upper Deschutes River: Note this area is currently under a Level 1 fire notice – a be ready to evacuate. Upper Deschutes is providing some good nymphing right now, and euronymphing is producing. Lake Billy Chinook: The smallmouth bass fishing in the Crooked River Arm has been good. Trout and kokes are good in the Deschutes Arm. ODFW is reporting some algal blooms. Some good kokanee catches are happening, and anglers are getting bulls in the Metolius arm. Kokes have been in the 50 to 60 foot range. Crooked River: Crooked River flow are around 250ish CFS – at 267 CFS currently. Mostly nymph fishing right now, but when the fish are rising, look for PMD hatches. PMD emergers, duns and spinners according to Jeff Perin. Fall River: One of the better bets for fishing with cold waters. Fall River was stocked with 1000 trophy size trout earlier in August, and will be stocked again next week. Best times to fish are early mornings and evenings. Metolius River: The Metolius continues to improve and we are going into September – one of the best months on the Met. PMDs are going strong afternoon and evenings. Wickiup Reservoir: Wickiup still has rainbows and browns, and is very accessible. Reports of good kokanee fishing continue – good option for kokes. Otherwise, reports are that fishing is slow. Fill level is at 27% full. Crescent Lake: Crescent Lake at 10 % full – no reports. The levels are starting to slowly decline. Prineville Reservoir: The reservoir is at 72 % full as of today – chock full and releasing lots of water, but inflows have essentially stopped. There are some reports of algae, but still fishable. Members can always see so much more in the complete report as well as the forecast for central Oregon by starting right here.

Columbia River Fishing Report and Forecast

Posted on by Bob Rees
Coho continue to disappoint in the estuary, more opportunity for Chinook anglers river-wide Columbia Fishing Report – The Buoy 10 fishery has been quite disappointing lately. Even though a robust return of both “A” run...
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