Local Waters
Antelope Flat Reservoir
Prineville, OR · about 75 min from Bend (typical, off-peak)
High desert stocked water.
Salt River / stream Lake / pond Shop (desk) Guide only Parking Stay State access Private — ask first
Around now
Most likely in this drive this week. Not a guarantee — confirm the official rule.
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Smallmouth bass
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Trout
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Sunfish and crappie
Also worth a thought: Largemouth bass.
- Season
- Legal on many waters. West-side streams drop and warm. Fish dawn. Confirm ODFW. Official rule
- License
- Oregon angling license (ODFW)
- Park
- BLM / county access east of Prineville.
- Walk in
- Short walk from the public lot.
- Wading
- Confirm flow before you step in.
- Usual window
- Confirm ODFW for this week.
- Saturday conditions
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NNW 3 mph around dawn. Fine to go.
- Sky
- ⛅ 73° partly
- Sun and moon
- Rise 9:20 · 🌖 Waning gibbous · Set 10:45
- Wind at dawn
- NNW 3 mph · Mostly Clear · 58°F
- Wind later
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- dawn: NNW 3 mph
- 10am: NNW 2 mph
- 2pm: NNW 3 mph
- dusk: NNW 3 mph
- A setup that belongs here
- 5- or 6-wt unless the water is bigger.
- Notes
- Easy Angling Central. Confirm ODFW.
Log this trip
Private. On this phone, and in your test book if you signed in on Journal.
Shops
Fly and Field Outfitters
35 NW Hawthorne Ave, Bend, OR 97703
Call
Bend shop. Stillwater and river.
The Patient Angler
50 SW Century Dr, Bend, OR 97702
Call
Bend trout desk. Cascade Lakes and the in-town Deschutes.
Guides
Shop desks, plus a few independents who fish public water. We do not take a cut. Call them.
No desk pinned yet. Ask the shop above who they trust here.