The Lower Deschutes is good trout fishing from Warm Springs to Maupin. A lot of nymph fishing last week, with some good caddis hatches and what seems like the end of the summer PMD’s sticking around most days. Dry Fly action is a shallow riffle game now, or it’s in the eddies. Don’t leave home without a Purple Haze #16. As Fall weather hits, add Mahogany Duns and BWO’s to the box. 
Stonefly nymphs, TJ Hookers, Mini Gulp, 2 Bit’s, Caddis Pupa from #14-16 Tan or Olive, #18-20 Grey, #8-10 Orange. Don’t be afraid to add some dirty deeds flies to the end of your line with Steelhead showing up. Big Lighting Bugs, Red Worms, Eggs, Peacock Girdle Bugs are winners for sure. 
As for Steelhead, swinging traditional flies like a Green Butt Skunk, Freight Train, Peacock & Purple and Euphoria (the gold one is legit!) is on. If you want to swing for steel on a floating line and a small fly, do it now. Once we get the cold Fall weather it moves to the sink tip and leech world, which is cool but nothing beats a dry line steelhead. 
Now is also a great time to talk about Catch & Release practices for Wild Steelhead. Net them or have a friend or another angler help you Tail them in deeper water. Do not drag them on shallow rocks or up on the bank ever ever ever. Wet hands to hold. Is a photo taken without harm or delay to the fish? Okay then, but keep most of the fish in the river so if it squirms and is dropped it is not hurt in the process. 
With the run just coming back to some decent numbers last year, and better numbers this year it is our job to protect them. The Wild one’s are oh so precious and valuable and no one would intentionally hurt one, but it is too easy to get sucked in to the exciting moment and forget what is best for the fish and not what is best for our ego.