The McKenzie River is fishing well for our guides already. We are running from Blue River area down and seeing some march browns, caddis and a few stoneflies. Our guides are doing best on double nymph rigs and dry dropper rigs, and also some small streamers and soft hackle swung, including on a 10′ sink tip.
We recommend booking your Mckenzie float trips earlier this year from now until mid July when we determine the river levels and ability to safely navigate the rapids and rocky gravel bars this river has so much of when the water gets low from such a low snowpack.
Our first 13 days of May are quite open for this (or the Lower D) with our guide team and after that it gets wild.