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Columbia river steelhead are struggling. That’s old news. They’ve been
having a rough go of it for a while now. But, the numbers out of the Big C
and it’s feeder rivers are especially sad this summer. Unprecedented, say
some officials. Early summer counts were putting just 4,000 steelhead past
the Bonneville dam. That’s down from 20,000 the previous year.
There are a lot of factors to blame: dams, mismanagement, an ever-warming globe. Add to that record heat and lack of precipitation we’ve been experiencing here in the Pacific Northwest and you’ve got the makings of one of the worst summer steelhead seasons ever.
I wanted to see for myself. And, I’m lucky enough to have a buddy who has a boat. Curtis Ciszek guides for Fish The Swing and has spent more than a decade swinging for fish on the Lower Deschutes. The next day we were up before the sun and into fish in the first couple hours. Curtis had bites all morning and brought a hatchery fish to hand by the end of the day. Darcy lost a few and landed a wild one. I fell in. The wading was treacherous. But, the fishing was better than expected. As Darcy put it, “I guess it’s better to be making the report than hearing it.”
So, that’s our report of sorts from just one day on the Deschutes River.
There are a lot of factors to blame: dams, mismanagement, an ever-warming globe. Add to that record heat and lack of precipitation we’ve been experiencing here in the Pacific Northwest and you’ve got the makings of one of the worst summer steelhead seasons ever.
I wanted to see for myself. And, I’m lucky enough to have a buddy who has a boat. Curtis Ciszek guides for Fish The Swing and has spent more than a decade swinging for fish on the Lower Deschutes. The next day we were up before the sun and into fish in the first couple hours. Curtis had bites all morning and brought a hatchery fish to hand by the end of the day. Darcy lost a few and landed a wild one. I fell in. The wading was treacherous. But, the fishing was better than expected. As Darcy put it, “I guess it’s better to be making the report than hearing it.”
So, that’s our report of sorts from just one day on the Deschutes River.
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