The Deschutes River in Central Oregon has been voted as one of the top rivers for Best Fly Fishing by USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards. The USA Today 10Best includes nominations by food ...

An excellent online resource for the Deschutes River and fly-fishing throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest is , a non-profit run by outdoor writer Scott Richmond of West Linn (“The ...

Dry-fly fishing ... of water quality issues on the river. Hazel says watching water quality deteriorate on the lower Deschutes and springs dry up elsewhere in Oregon has reminded her of the ...

Central Oregon is known for its scenic outdoors. This river not only has beautiful scenery, but is also a prime location for ...

A couple of weeks ago I attended the International Federation of Fly Fisher's Fly Fishing Fair in Bend ... come close to being as touristy. The Deschutes River flows through Bend and gives ...

to score a new Oregon-record mountain whitefish and, possibly, a new world record. Dietz, who only fly fishes, used an egg fly on the Deschutes River near Warm Springs Dec. 19 to land a five-pound ...

CENTRAL OREGON — I had never touched a fly rod, let alone gone on a fishing trip ... As we learned, the eight-mile Crooked River, a tributary of the Deschutes, is ideal for first-time anglers ...

Alysia Littleleaf and her husband, Elke, make their living as fishing guides on the lower Deschutes ... Oregon outdoors writer Harry Teel once deemed “the finest overall fly-fishing river ...