Local Waters
Haystack Reservoir
Culver, OR · about 64 hours from Portsmouth (typical, off-peak)
The Madras-side reservoir the Bend 50-list names.
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
- USFS Crooked River National Grassland Haystack Reservoir Campground and day-use, plus West Shore Day Use. Day-use fee.
- Walk in
- Short walk from the public lot.
- Wading
- Good bank. Also a small boat.
- Usual window
- Confirm ODFW for this week.
- Sunday conditions
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SW 2 mph around dawn. Fine to go.
- Sky
- ⛅ 83° partly
- Sun and moon
- Rise 9:15 · 🌔 Waxing gibbous · Set 10:59
- Wind at dawn
- SW 2 mph · Mostly Clear · 60°F
- Wind later
-
- dawn: SW 2 mph
- 10am: 0 mph
- 2pm: NW 3 mph
- dusk: N 6 mph
- A setup that belongs here
- 5- or 6-wt unless the water is bigger.
- Notes
- ODFW 50-in-90 Bend. Named USFS grassland lots. 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.