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Recommended Tackle & Gear
For Steelhead and Salmon
Fly Line:
7, 8 , 9 or 10 weight for appropriate type
rod, sinking, sinking tip and floating
Leaders:
10#, 12# in 9 to 15 feet lengths
Tippets:
10# and 12#
Best Fly Rods:
Perfect Fly 7, 8, 9 and 10 ft. single hand
rods
Fly Reels:
For 7 to 10 weight lines
Fly Floatants and Misc Items:
KISS Strike Indicators, Lanyards, etc.
Tools & Accessories:
Nippers, forceps, retractors, etc.
For Trout
Fly Line:
4, 5 or 6 weight
Leaders:
Dry fly: 9 ft., 5 or 6X Nymphing: 71/2 ft.,
3 or 4X, Streamers 0-2X
Tippets:
Dry fly: 5 or 6X, Nymphing: 3 or 4X,
Streamer 0-2X
Best Fly Rods:
Perfect Fly Supreme Four, Superb Five
or Ultimate Six
Fly Reels:
For 4/5/6 fly line
Fly Floatants and Misc Items:
Floatants, KISS Strike Indicators
Tools & Accessories:
Nippers, forceps, retractors, etc.
Deschutes River, Oregon - Fishing Report - February 17, 2019
The discharges and stream levels are in good shape in all sections. A few Steelhead are
still being caught in the lower river. Conditions look good for the coming week.
Stream Conditions:
7 Day Weather Forecast: There is a chance of snow everyday this coming week but
Sunday and Monday. The high temperatures range from 31 to 35 and the lows from 16 to
25 degrees.
Recommended Trout Flies:
Midges: Blood (Red), sizes 20/22, larva, pupa and adults
Midges: Light Green, size 20/22, larva, pupa and adults
Midges: Cream, size 20/22, larva pupa and adults
Blue-winged Olives, size 18 and 16, nymphs, emergers, duns, spinners
Brown Sculpin, White Belly Sculpin and articulated streamers, size 6
Skwala Stoneflies: size 10, nymphs and adults
Little Brown stoneflies, size 14 (upper river), nymphs and adults
Strategies, Techniques and Tips:
Trout:
It is almost alway best to fish a tandem Midge rig under a small strike indicator with the
midge lava as the bottom fly and the midge pupa as the top fly. Fish the adult midge
only when you observe trout feeding on the surface.
Remember, there is a big difference in the lower and upper rivers as far as hatch times
are concerned.
Brown sculpin and White Belly Sculpin are two of the very best flies to use during the
entire year. Articulated streamers work good.
Various species of Blue-winged olives will hatch mostly on cloudy days. Skwala
stoneflies are hatching. Little Brown stoneflies are hatching.

1. Email us (sales@perfectflystore.com) with the dates you will be fishing this stream and we will send you a list of our fly suggestions. Please allow up to 24 hours for a response.
2. Call us 800-594-4726 and we will help you decide which flies you need.
3. Email us (sales@perfectflystore.com) with a budget for flies and we will select them to match the budget and get them to you in time for your fly fishing trip.
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Recommended Steelhead/Salmon Flies:
Strategies, Techniques and Tips:
Steelhead/Salmon:
Steelhead fishing is good in the lower 100 miles of the river..