Trout Fishing John Day River

Adult and sub-adult bull trout seasonally utilize the entire North Fork John Day River. We offer day floats and multi day floats.

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Much of the Lower John Day flows through proposed wilderness areas while the upper river provides critical habitat for the largest and most diverse native fish populations in Oregon.

Trout fishing john day river. John Day River South Fork This tributary of the upper John Day river offers good fishing for wild redband rainbow trout. Fishing is good for wild brook trout. Although this is a nice spot in the summer brook trout fishing is likely to be slower then.

In the early season fish would move twenty feet to eat a fly and then do cartwheels across the river. One watershed to the East from our beloved Deschutes is another Oregon canyonlands paradise the John Day River. This 50-acre lake north of John Day can have quite good fishing for both rainbow and brook trout.

Dress warm it gets Slide Lake. Some of the best Smallmouth Bass fishing in the country takes place on the John Day River. Among the species that call this river home are endangered bull trout and summer steelhead along with chinook salmon redband trout and westslope cutthroat trout.

Guiding fishermen and bird hunters on the John Day River is Steves profession not his hobby. These fish average from 8-12 with larger fish in the 18-20 range. Fly fishing is productive.

The river also has one the regions most important runs of spring Chinook as well as native redband rainbow trout and threatened bull trout. Why Fish With Us. Watch for it to get a planting of large trout in the late spring.

We floated for four days and covered over 35 miles. 13 acres and 8 ft deep Slide Lake is shallow and has lots of underwater vegetation. Click here to unsubcribe from your fishing reports.

Other than about four miles upstream from where it enters the mainstem at Dayville the stream mostly flows through public land and offers good access along South Fork Road.