The Lower Deschutes is still closed from access points including Warm Springs, Mecca, Dry Creek, Trout Creek and South Jct but it is open anywhere North/Down Stream of the Warm Springs Reservation. This means both upstream and down stream access from the thriving metropolis of Maupin will be great access places for good fishing.
March Brown hatches are generally good now, and with the weather this week I expect it to be quite good on the dries of emergers of this important spring hatch.
BWO’s can mask in hatch and be unnoticed, but I know you will look for them and make a good choice on fly section if the march brown you are using is not working over rising trout. Maybe the fish prefer the smaller mayflies in that moment?
Could be your tippet is too big, your drift sucks, you have the wrong fly stage on or the hatch hasn’t been matched. All are worthy of working on.
Stonefly nymphs are going to be so important this week and next, and the weeks after that until the emergence begins in what could be less than a month away if the warm weather continues in April, which it is forecast to be. Grab some Girdle Bugs, Kaufmann’s Stones, TJ Hookers and make sure to have black and golden stone versions ready to fish.
Walts Worms, PT’s, Hares Ears, Rock Worms, Perdigons, Caddis Pupa are all good nymphs to run too.