The Lower Deschutes is good, and yesterday we had another wonderful guide trip from Warm Springs to Trout Creek. Mattias said there was a very impressive October Caddis hatch at 2 PM, and that Green Perdigons, Hares Ear’s, Stonefly Nymphs and Jig Streamers were awesome yesterday. 
Plenty of Steelhead around and it looks great for our fall Steelhead trips from now until at least Thanksgiving. 
As of this writing here are days we have at least one guide open to do a steelhead trip on the WS to TC section of the river: October 16, 17, 18. 19, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 and 31. These will fill so if you have an interest in getting on the schedule, pick a date and call us to book it. 
Steelhead are still coming to swung flies on floating lines just fine, This is a good transition time to start getting the sink tips and intruders and leeches out. A whole lot of the fish we’ve seen have come on a nymph this fall. Often on trout gear. I remember guiding an old customer who was a Navy Captain and Rob ended up getting a hell of a steelhead on the Big Indian Riffle while trout fishing a Flashback PT #14. It’s been a long time since I last guided the Lower D, but memories like that never are forgotten!
That said, give me an Anderson’s Euphoria or a Freight Train and my T&T 11 1/2′ 7 weight and let me swing it 1st. As I wrote that, a great memory of my best friend Matt swinging a Black Wooly Bugger in a section just below Big Indian and at what some might call the top end of Sixes. Bam.