The Middle Deschutes from Bend to Lake Billy is in good shape and seeing a good hatch of March Browns #14. Oddly, when I was there a week ago today the hatch was magnificent but no fish were rising. We did well on perdigons though! My friend Damon sent me a photo a gorgeous Brown on friday he caught on the dry fly and said the fish were coming up to the hatch quite well. 

The MB’s are coming off about 1 to 3.

With warms days ahead look for PMD’s and PED’s to start up, and increasing caddis hatches too. 

River levels came up a little this week, but remain in good shape. I suspect we may see some fluctuations in the water levels going up and down 20 or 30 cfs with irrigation demand increasing with warmer weather this week. We may also see some decent runoff coming down tumalo creek in the days to come, so let’s watch that and see if it has any affect on the Deschutes.