Hosmer is good

Hosmer Lake - Bend, OR (Deschutes County)


by The Fly Fishers Place
6-27-2026
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Hosmer Lake is good in the upper lake and channel on callibaetis in all stages and most days offer a fair to good hatch. Don’t pass up chironomids, damsels, scuds, leeches and traveling sedge and black caddis and keep an eye out for alderflies too. When it warms up again if you are on the water at dusk or dawn add some trico patterns. The hatch is a caenis mayfly but the pattern that matches it is a trico. Usually spinners or a comparadun are your best bets. 
Troy likes to fish a Chubby with a balanced damsel, I like the Blue Chubby with an adult damsel or Cope’s damsel as a dropper. 
Ants along the reeds are a solid choice and another option is a platinum soccer mom on a hover line stripped. The lake is low and weedy so pick your spots carefully with that method. 
The Lower Lake is too warm to safely catch and release fish unless you go early AM. Otherwise just don’t fish that water as it is reaching 72 in the afternoon and evening and that is lethal. Upper lake and channel holding in lower 60’s and thank you to FFP guide Troy for pointing that out and drawing attention to this.




More Reports

The Fly Fishers Place Reports
for Saturday, June 27th

Metolius River: Green Drake is winding down
Deschutes River- Lower: Good days to enjoy
Deschutes River: Middle D is a good choice
Deschutes River- Upper: Nice catches of quality browns
Deschutes River- Upper: Upper D Headwaters stretch is wonderful
Crooked River: Crooked is fishing quite well
Fall River: The Fall River is good
McKenzie River: Good for our guides this week
East Lake: East Lake was good this week
Paulina Lake: Paulina was good
Little Lava Lake: Little Lava was really good this week

The Fly Fishers Place Reports
for Saturday, June 20th

Metolius River: Good fishing in all sections of the river!
Crooked River: The Crooked is great for soft tackle
Fall River: Killer reports on the Fall this week!
McKenzie River: Good mix of fish!
East Lake: East Lake got pretty green
Paulina Lake: Mixed success at Paulina
Crane Prairie Reservoir: Fish report from Crane Prairie
Hosmer Lake: Good fishing on callibaetis!
Little Lava Lake: Little Lava Update
Three Creek Lake: Three Creek is really fishing well