tailwater · trout · steelhead
Lower Deschutes River (Maupin)
Live conditions for Lower Deschutes River (Maupin): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
3,880cfs→ lowfishable
Inside the wade band, stable low · +0.3% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp57.0°F
Stage2.79 ft
Engine callGO 3870 cfs in the wade band · 57°F
The water
Lower Deschutes River (Maupin) is a tailwater below Pelton Round Butte in Bend, fished for trout, steelhead — rainbow, brown, bull, brook. On dam-controlled water the generation schedule is the whole story: the wade window is the no-generation block, and rising water at the gauge means the pulse is arriving.
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Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Pelton Reregulating Dam Day Use (first access below Pelton/Round Butte Project)ramp
- Mecca Flat Campground & Boat Rampramp
- Warm Springs Boat Ramp (State Park/BLM put-in, RM 97.8)ramp
- Frog Springs Rest Stop / Trout Creek Trailwalk in
- Trout Creek Campground & Boat Ramp (RM 88.4)ramp
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.