Our morning starts before the sun has fully decided what kind of day it wants to be.

You arrive at the boat ramp, with just the sound of the river and boats being loaded up. Gear is dialed, boats are in the water, and there’s no rush. As your guides get organized and rig up rods, you will pack up gear to send to camp in one of our dry bags. We’ll walk through everything together; whether you’ve been floating with us for years, or this is your first time holding a fly rod. From there we push off, down into the canyon where your day-to-day hustle can disappear for a while with the kind of solitude that is hard to find anywhere else. Whether we are after hungry redband rainbow trout, or chasing anadromous steelhead. We are looking for that moment where everything connects.

The Lower Deschutes has a way of filling a camera roll with its long basalt canyon walls, bighorn sheep, migratory birds, steady moving current, and water that holds fish in all the right places.  As we float downriver, you’ll learn how to read water, refine your cast, familiarize yourself with the local entomology, and understand why this river fishes the way it does. There’s no rigid schedule. We stop where it feels right, fish where it makes sense, and adjust to the rhythm of the river. Every day is different.