Oregon's Lower Deschutes offers fall fishing

An Interesting bit of a read i came across!

By MARK MORICAL, The Bulletin

Updated 1:55 am, Saturday, September 28, 2013 

This undated photo provided by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a steelhead in the Lower Deschutes. For many anglers, fall is all about summer steelhead — and the Lower Deschutes is one of the best rivers in the West to fish for the elusive, aggressive, oceangoing rainbow trout. Photo: Oregon Department Of Fish And Wildlife Via The Bulletin

BEND, Ore. (AP) — Fall means many things to Central Oregonians: the return of football, back to school, and an increasing chill in the air reminding us that winter is not far off.
But let's not close the door on summer just yet.
For many anglers, fall is all about summer steelhead — and the Lower Deschutes is one of the best rivers in the West to fish for the elusive, aggressive, oceangoing rainbow trout. Landing just one of the lunkers on their journey back to their spawning grounds can make a fisherman's fall.
Fishing for steelhead reportedly has been good on the Lower Deschutes from the mouth downstream to Sherars Falls. The river has cleared since intense rainstorms a couple of weeks ago muddied the water and made fishing difficult, according to Rod French, a fisheries biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife based in The Dalles.

Hi!, From the sounds of it, it might be a good yr for steelhead as of last month ODFW has a seine net that was in opperation for 3 days a week, 8 miles upriver from Gold Beach. The net only catches a very small percentage of migrating fish about 2%, but it allows ODFW to tag, scale, sample these fish to estimate run size. The average over the last 10 years on half pounders is 1239 counted through to November 1st. At this point they have counted 1672 as of August 7th. Adult steelhead 10 year average is 318 and of August 7th there has been 92, remember those counts only reflect about 2% of the annual numbers. So it looks like it is shaping up to be a great season!

Hello Everyone!

Just a quick one for now as I'm still setting up my blog page.

The reason I've started to create this blog is to expand my fishing skills in the USA.
I'm currently on the Rogue River and haven't gotten to do much fishing, since I have arrived here.
But I have missed a few Salmon! (I want the trout too! lol) one of my passion's  that I always wanted to do since I was a boy was to fish in the USA. In the fine rivers and creeks that are throughout this great place, the crystal clear water and lush green landscape, and now here I am but not having much success in the past so the end of this year I ld like to change that. So if Anyone got any tips or tricks on catching in the rogue would be a great help as I have been told even the Rogue's fish hit different flies and lures in color I have heard.

Thx all better get back to doing some more layout work on here

Look forward to reading some posts on here!