Those are some good rivers. If you're going to start fly fishing streams for trout, the best place to learn is on a creek. Small drop pool free stone creeks are the best in late summer. It also helps to see how your fly will behave in the water as well as where fish hold and how currents move.
The Deschutes during peak salmonfly hatch will make you feel like a pro. I usually throw golden stones under brush if the river has been crowded for a couple weeks. You can fish golden stones from late March to September on one stream or another, and by then you can fish October caddis through November.
If you're fishing now go get a few maroon colored wet flies, a few blue copper johns, some pheasant tail and prince nymphs, then maybe some mahongony dun emergers and dries (all size 12 or 14 to about size 18 or 20). Blue winged olives are also prolific, get some of those in size 16-22 and any other midge pattern in those sizes....
You know what, I'll help ya catch fish if you ever want to go. I could write a book on the sport. LoL
The Deschutes during peak salmonfly hatch will make you feel like a pro. I usually throw golden stones under brush if the river has been crowded for a couple weeks. You can fish golden stones from late March to September on one stream or another, and by then you can fish October caddis through November.
If you're fishing now go get a few maroon colored wet flies, a few blue copper johns, some pheasant tail and prince nymphs, then maybe some mahongony dun emergers and dries (all size 12 or 14 to about size 18 or 20). Blue winged olives are also prolific, get some of those in size 16-22 and any other midge pattern in those sizes....
You know what, I'll help ya catch fish if you ever want to go. I could write a book on the sport. LoL