On a whim Thor and I decided to head out to the Deschutes for his birthday weekend. I say 'on a whim' because we really didn't decide to go until about 3:30 on Saturday afternoon. Thor heard that the salmon flies were hatching - so we tossed our rods, sleeping bags, and pizza grilling gear (a must for any car camping expedition!) into the car and headed out East.
We arrived just in time to snag the last camping spot on the upper Deschutes - it was probably about 6:30 p.m. - so after dropping our camping gear to hold our spot we hustled up the road and got our rods set up. We fished for about 3 hours - just until it started to get dusky. I brought in a couple small fish - but we'd left the camera up at the car, so no glorious fish shots for me this time.
The weather was absolutely PERFECT - we were fishing in T-Shirts - and when we rolled back to camp at 9:30 it was still just lovely and warm. We set about grilling up our pizza on the little charcoal Weber, had a camp mug of wine, and then were off to bed on our camp cots - we slept out under the stars, and aside from a brief spattering of rain around 11:30 we were dry the entire night.
On Sunday we got up, packed camp, and rolled down to the lower Deschutes to fish some more. We brought the camera this time, and I caught some wee small fish that Thor pronounced as 'smolt' - so no picture. And then I caught a whitefish - and apparently we don't take pictures of 'stinky whitefish' either - so my 'haul' went undocumented on this particular outing. Thor hooked a nice trout though, and we did get a picture of that. Closing in on noon I took a short break to read my book in the sun. By this time it was getting pretty hot, and the fish had stopped biting so we decided to pack it up and roll back into Portland via the old scenic Columbia highway to Mosier. Overall it was a lovely, relaxing trip!
Me - taking a break from fishing to read.
Thor & his fish!
Me pulling in one of my fish before Thor realized it was a smolt. =)
Looking down the Deschutes River valley.
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