Crane Prairie is fishing well

Crane Prairie Reservoir - Sunriver, OR (Deschutes County)


by The Fly Fishers Place
5-17-2025
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Crane Prairie is fishing well and has good access at the resort end with brand new docks and plenty of parking. Quinn is open and has good access. I am not sure if Rock Creek is open yet.
Balanced Leeches and Red Ice Cream Cones seem to be the best flies of late, but Black Chironomids, Hanging with my Chromies and Damsel Nymphs are necessary for CP right now, and start thinking about Callibaetis soon, so the nymphs will already be in throat pump samples at times, and be getting the dark, mature wing pads by now.
Hang a Callibaetis Cate (my own adaptation of an old mayfly nymph called a Cates Turkey (modernized on a jig hook) and a Black Double Down Nymph under an indicator in about 7 or 8 feet of water, if they are not taking leeches or chironomids well in the moment.