Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 12:00AM 
ODFW has cut the change to the regs on the Deschutes that would have allowed for 2 bag limit on rainbow trout. The current slot limit will remain in place.
ODFW, deschutes river in Announcements, Conservation, Environment Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 12:00AM 
An important message from the Deschutes River Alliance.
On Friday, September 4, the ODFW Commissioners will be voting on a large package of angling rule changes created to “simplify” the Oregon fishing regulations.
One of the rule changes calls for opening up kill on redband trout in the lower Deschutes River. Presently, there is a “slot limit” that only allows the take of 2 redband trout between 10 and 13 inches of length per day. The new rule would allow the taking of any 2 redband trout over 8 inches per day.
It would appear that the proposed change is a heavy-handed measure without biological benefit.
Our position at the DRA is that if the Commission wishes to simplify the angling rules, the easiest thing would be to do away with any kill of redband trout on the lower Deschutes by making it a catch and release fishery with the required use of barbless hooks. Now that would be simple! Easy to understand, no measuring of fish would be necessary, and it would be easily enforceable. Anything short of this deserves a deferral on decision-making to allow the public to provide input on rule changes.
You can lend us your support by emailing the ODFW Commissioners at:
We are hoping that the Commission will receive at least 1,000 emails from those of us who love the lower Deschutes River. Everyone who reads this needs to send an email. Help us meet a goal of 1000 emails by sending one today!
Do it now!
LINK (via: Deschutes River Alliance)
Here is a message from Bill Bakke on the same subject
ODFW OPENS KILL FISHERY ON DESCHUTES TROUT
ODFW wants you to kill Deschutes redband trout and steelhead smolts. Stocking of hatchery rainbow trout in the lower Deschutes was terminated in 1978 with the intention of managing the the lower 100 miles exclusively for wild trout. Spawning redband trout average 3 to 4 years of age and 12”-13”. These trout can live up to 10 years. In 1984, at my suggestion, the ODFW Commission and chief of the Fishery Division agreed to a 10” to 13” slot regulation that would protect steelhead smolts and the full age structure of Deschutes wild trout. The purpose of this regulation was to prevent anglers from keeping 3 -4 year old juvenile steelhead or high-grading their catch and killing the larger breeding age redbands. With the slot limit in place, most anglers do not fish for trout in the lower Deschutes for consumption, but prefer to practice catch and release regardless.
Now in the name of “simplified” regulations ODFW is proposing to allow a kill fishery on all trout greater than 8-inches (two trout limit per day). Even though the local biologists would prefer a catch and release fishery on trout, their Salem bosses want more license sales and less conservation. This regressive regulation can be stopped if YOU contact ODFW and redirect their misguided and selfish approach to management.
What could be more “simple” than mandatory catch and release of all trout on the lower Deschutes? Tell the Commission that you want a catch and release fishery on trout in the lower Deschutes River so that this unique and diverse population and the exceptional fishery they support can be protected.
The Patagonia Portland store will be hosting an evening with the Deschutes River Alliance on September 10th from 7-10pm.
TAKE ACTION!!!!, deschutes river in Conservation, Environment, Species Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 12:00AM 
An excellent piece about fly fishing and camping via pedal power along Oregon's Deschutes River Trail.
People write and talk about the salmon fly hatch on the Deschutes River with near religious awe. It’s a time when strange, two inch, orange insects emerge and line the grasses on the banks of the river in biblical proportions, causing large and usually wary trout to throw caution to the wind and feed on the surface with the desperation of the last call at Old Country Buffet.
Or that’s what they say, at least.
LINK (via: The Path Less Pedaled)
bugs, deschutes river, fly fishing destinations in Writing Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 12:00AM On May 23rd, 2014 over a hundred cyclists pushed themselves to their physical limits in an epic 360 mile bike race across Oregon's unforgiving and vast landscape.
We went fishing.
(via: The Path Less Pedaled)
Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 12:00AM 
Photo of an oil train on the Deschutes River May 4 courtesy of Friends of the Gorge.
A growing number of oil trains are now moving south along Central Oregon’s Deschutes River, presenting a new risk for oil spills along one of Oregon’s most iconic rivers and new safety concerns for communities in the region.
LINK (via: earthfix)
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 12:00AM "Through cold and ice, a young man must go."
