Local Waters
Cultus Lake
Cascade Lakes, OR · about 60 min from Bend (typical, off-peak)
Bigger cascade lake, stocked and wild.
Salt River / stream Lake / pond Shop (desk) Guide only Parking Stay State access Private — ask first
- Season
- Legal on many waters. West-side streams drop and warm. Fish dawn. Confirm ODFW. Official rule
- License
- Oregon angling license (ODFW)
- Park
- Cultus Lake Campground and day-use.
- Walk in
- Short walk from the public lot.
- Wading
- Confirm flow before you step in.
- Usual window
- Confirm ODFW for this week.
- Monday conditions
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SW 3 mph around dawn. Fine to go.
- Sky
- ⛅ 82° partly
- Sun and moon
- Rise 9:20 · 🌔 Waxing gibbous · Set 10:59
- Wind at dawn
- SW 3 mph · Mostly Sunny · 66°F
- Wind later
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- dawn: SW 3 mph
- 10am: SW 8 mph
- 2pm: SW 12 mph
- dusk: SW 9 mph
- A setup that belongs here
- 5- or 6-wt unless the water is bigger.
- Notes
- ODFW stocking Central. Public USFS. Confirm ODFW.
Log this trip
Private. On this phone, and in your test book if you signed in on Journal.
Shops
The Fly Fisher's Place
151 W Main Ave, Sisters, OR 97759
Call — high-desert hours
Metolius, Crooked, Cascade Lakes. The Sisters desk.
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.