Cascade lakes advice? (Oregon)

[boltej]

I'm headed out with my son next week for some camping/stillwater fly-fishing on one of the smaller Cascade lakes in central Oregon above Bend. Being pretty much a rank novice when it comes to lake fishing (I'm pretty much a moving water guy), I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions regarding fly selection, color, presentation, or anything else that might be relevant for this time of year in that part of the planet. I'm assuming smaller leeches are good place to start, but beyond that I'm fairly clueless. We'll be bringing a couple of pontoon boats. Any guidance would be appreciated!

 

[RCF]

Have a few terrestrials in your box. Hoppers, beetles, ants, etc. fished near shore and bushes. Two flies e.g. dry and dropper. If damsels/dragonflies are flying around, damse/dragonfly nymphs e.g. Carey Special.

Keep your eyrs open to see what it tells you...

 

[Josh]

I added "Oregon" to the thread title in the hopes that it grabbed a few more eyeballs from the Beaver State crew.

 

[Peach]

It depends on the lake you will be fishing in CO - but leeches are always a good search pattern to start with until you starting seeing some hatches occurring. I just got back several days ago, and at the three lakes I fished I was surprised to see a pretty good callibaetis hatches occurring and the fish were somewhat on them. I also saw a few damsels still around, so fishing a damsel pattern won't hurt as well.

I fished Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday and the water temperatures were still fairly high but dropping, but with this cooler and rainy weather we have had the past two days will help, but please be cautious of the water temps, I had to get off the lakes around lunch time due to the rising water temps.

Feel free to DM me if you want more specifics - there are a couple of lakes that are fishing well right now in CO.

Peach