If it is June, it is time for the salmonfly hatch on the Deschutes. Big bugs mean big fish and big crowds, but the Deschutes is a big girl herself and can....aaahhhhmmm....accomodate quite a few anglers if ya know what I mean.
She is a dandy ribbion of water, beginning at the base of the South Sister, trickling south, gathering steam, then sobers up and takes a huge u-turn and heads in the only direction sanity permits, north!!! The ribbion of life carves out some dramatic canyons in the arid High Desert of Oregon, and houses some dandy trout, the desert redside.
So quit the job, sell the house, wife and kids, buy a canopy and a sheee-load of sunscreen (shade is scarce), and head north to the home of big fish, big bugs, big water, and even bigger women. Unfortunately, some things are bigger than we wish.
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