Stone flies are hatching

Of the family Plecoptera, the Pteranarcys Californica, A.K.A. Salmon flies have been hatching in Central Oregon for the past few weeks now. Anglers on the Middle Deschutes where the first to cast the big bushy dry flies toward grass shores, cut banks, and down stream of over hanging trees. The Big Bugs have been present on the Middle for about 2 weeks, which means they are starting to disappear. The Deschutes just outside of Bend has been experiencing hatching stone flies too. The hatch in this area is less prevalent and is already waning.

The first stone have been eated by opportunistic trout in the Maupin area a few days ago. And, the Big Bugs are just making their identity know in the Warmsprings area.

THe hatch is moving a bit ahead of schedule this year, but the first part of June will stille be the prime time from Warmsprings to Maupin.

Lower Deschutes Week 1

Well the Lower D along the Warmsprings Res. has been open now for just over a week. The fishing has had its ups and downs. During the first few days of being open, it fished very well. We experienced fish hooked every where we stopped. As the week grew long, and the weather irregular, the fishing waned. This is the time of year I see the fishing most drastically effected by the weather. If there are clouds, sun, wind, and rain all during a day, chances are the fishing will be poor. But if the weather is constantly sunny, cloudy, or rainy, the fishing will be dynomite.

Little WIllow Lake

Last week I took two cool guys fishing on Little Willow Lake. It is a private lake on the Clark Ranch, just outside of Madras. An irrigation reservoir, Little Willow is home to a number of LARGE trout. We experienced great fishing! Ross is a well traveled and experienced angler. He dominated, landing close to 20 fish! It was Jason's first day fly fishing, and he forever hooked. He landed 8 big fish, and hooked a bunch more.

Little Willow is open to fishing until the first part of July, when it will close until the water temperatures cool down again in the fall.

Brett Philip's report from Baja

I just received a fishing report from the East Cape of Baja Mexico, from Brett Philip. Hear is what he had to say...

Bonito, Pargo, Ladyfish and Sierra...a fun day (smoked the bait fisherman and they were not very pleased).
Lucky I had an old steel leader Scott gave me a year ago, those Sierra ripped up my 40Lb leaders like nothing.
The Bonito took 40 minutes to land and I really thought I was going to lose my new 10 WT, man those Tuna's
can pull.
Spent three hours looking for Roosterfish to no avail but try again Monday.

PS Hope Damien likes my hat.

Take care,

Brett Philip


The hat looks great. I wish I was enjoying some more fun, sun, and fishing.