"Fishing guide Amy Hazel gripped the oars, leaned back and pulled her drift boat across the tumbling waters of the lower Deschutes River as cheesecloth clouds filtered sunlight on a Friday in June.

She had her eyes set on an eddy where she knew she’d find fish inclined to munch on a dry fly.

“It’s a hunt,” Hazel said. “It’s not a game of numbers, unless you want to make it a game of numbers, and then you wouldn’t be necessarily always doing what we’re doing, which is targeting one fish at a time. … I like the hunt.”

Dry-fly fishing, in which anglers use lures that stay above the surface of the water, requires incredible precision — and optimal conditions."

Bradley W. Parks reports for OPB July 18, 2022. [2]