Recent content by troutbane

Thanks for the info, Irishrover. A fellow who was having much more luck than I was at MP 18 also suggested an Adams (though he did not mention the color). Unfortunately, as I said in an earlier post, I had lost the fly box that contained most of my dries at Chimney Rock the previous day. Ah...

Thanks for the reply. As it happened I discovered, when I got home, that I had lost one of my flyboxes somewhere in the Chimney Rock campground. So, instead of the Deschutes, we went back to Chimney Rock to look for the missing box. No luck, nor did we have any luck (other than a couple of...

Fishing the Crooked Fishing the Crooked We were so impressed with how beautiful the river is. Lots of fish were rising, some of decent size. We each caught one trout and found people on the river very helpful about what flies to use. All in all it was a fine day. (It's a river I would love to...

Thanks, Trout-acular, for both your postings. We're looking forward to a good day on the Crooked. (My wife will be using hardware, but I'll be tossing flies.) Tomorrow we want to try the Deschutes - somewhere not more than an hour's drive from Redmond. Any suggestions about where and what flies...

Hi, I'm new to the list - a visitor from BC who wants to fish the crooked river tomorrow, with my wife. Are there any reasonably productive spots on the river where we can fish it without having waders? We're staying in Redmond but are willing to drive for 45min or an hour to get to a good spot...