{"id":1281,"date":"2016-05-27T15:32:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T22:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2016-05-27T15:42:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T22:42:43","slug":"2016-deschutes-salmonfly-report-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/2016-deschutes-salmonfly-report-part-deux\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Deschutes Salmonfly Report: Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_6458\"<\/a>The most anticipated fishing event of the early season is winding down as we segue into Memorial Day Weekend. \u00a0This year’s Deschutes River salmonfly hatch lived up to its oversized reputation, and the fishing was outstanding from the first day out. \u00a0After our first week of “pre-season” success<\/a> with no one else around, the next week of the season found the inevitable “Pale Morning Dude hatch” in full force at the Trout Creek Put-in.<\/p>\n

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But the Deschutes is a big river, and while at times it can seem like there is an angler under every poison oak bush and alder tree, eventually the crowd thins out, and once again you find yourself alone with the canyon and its incredible trout.<\/p>\n

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Whether fishing the “hopper\/dropper” in the heavy water, or crawling your big bugs into the darkest spider nests you can find, the fishing at this time of year is truly spectacular. Now as we look ahead to the summer delights of McKenzie Trout Fishing<\/strong><\/em> and what is shaping up to be a G<\/strong>reat Return of Summer Steelhead<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(!)<\/strong><\/em>, here is a sampler of images from the High Season in the High Desert. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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The most anticipated fishing event of the early season is winding down as we segue into Memorial Day Weekend. \u00a0This year’s Deschutes River salmonfly hatch lived up to its oversized reputation, and the fishing was outstanding from the first day … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}