Fishing near Bend, Oregon

Find Bend in Oregon, inside Deschutes County. About 87,014 people live here. The list runs: Upper Tumalo Reservoir 7.6 miles off to the north-west, Mayfield Pond 9.4 miles off, Tumalo Lake 12 miles off to the west and Tum Lake 16 miles off. Tumalo Lake has the kind of soft bottom that keeps weed thick into autumn. Cold spells can close them, though not every year. A hard week rarely lasts long enough to matter. Almost all of it is lake rather than river. A soft bottom fishes differently from a hard one. Upper Tumalo Reservoir is the near option, about 105 acres in size. Fish documented across Deschutes County include rainbow trout, brook trout, mountain whitefish, brown trout and largemouth bass. One or two are big enough to want a boat. The far end of a water is nearly always the quiet end. If Upper Tumalo Reservoir is busy, everything else on this list is quieter....