The Middle Deschutes is good from Bend to Lake Billy Chinook. Look for good Caddis hatches, Pale Morning Duns and Pale Evening Duns and some BWO’s too.
There are a lot of places to spread out on the Middle D and it makes for less crowding than some of the other rivers. An after work/evening session on some of the riffles upstream and downstream of Bend can be really satisfying with a Purple Haze, Yellow Sparkle Dun and X Caddis.
Swinging soft hackles is a heck’uva a lot of fun on the Deschutes too.
Euro style nymphing is wicked good!