Cold and snowy conditions are making spring seem like a long ways away in the canyon. When this weather breaks to some warming days in March, look for trout to start actively feeding. Their diet is primarily large stoneflies with the occasional crayfish. Anglers using nymphing techniques and large stonefly imitations will be most successful.

Anglers are reminded that fishing is closed to sport anglers on the Deschutes River from the Northern Boundary of the Warm Springs Reservation upstream to Pelton Dam from Jan. 1 to April 22, 2019.

Anglers who catch a tagged hatchery steelhead with an orange anchor tag, are encouraged to report catch information to ODFW at 541-296-4628. Anglers catching a tagged wild fish should release it immediately without recording any information.

Counts at the Sherars Falls salmon and steelhead trap. The trap is only in operation from July to the end of October. Trapping has ended at Sherars Falls for the season.