Trips – Skookum Outfitters

Guided Fly Fishing Trips

Lower Deschutes River Camp Trips

Targets: Trout- year round. Salmon and steelhead- July through December
Cost: $600 per angler, per day, minimum 2 anglers
Duration: 2-4 days

There’s good float trips and great float trips….and we’re proud to offer great float trips on the Lower Deschutes River. With over 20 years of guiding and outfitting experience- primarily here on the Deschutes- you can relax knowing that our camp program is dialed-in. We only employ the most experienced guides that know where to fish and how to get you there safely. And you don’t have to be an expert angler (or camper) to have fun on this trip! Anglers of all ages will enjoy remote canyon scenery that few rivers can provide.

Once we drop in below Trout Creek or Mack’s Canyon, much of the crowds that flock to the shorter day stretches are left behind. At the end of each day, we arrive in a camp that has already been set up because we employ an extra guide to row camp downstream each morning and establish camp for that night. Honestly, this would be a great trip even if we weren’t fishing. That said, the quality of fishing in the remote stretches of the Lower Deschutes River Canyon offers the discerning angler with less-pressured water, hard-fighting fish, wild scenery and an immersive river canyon experience that few people will ever get to see.

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Lower Deschutes River Day Trips

Targets: Trout- year round. Salmon and steelhead- July through December
Cost: $600 for one or two anglers per boat, $750 for three anglers per boat
Duration: 8 hours

Day trips occur either in the Warmp Springs or Maupin areas where we float any one of a number of stretches from 8 to 15 miles in length. The guide will work patiently with beginning anglers on how to properly set up a rod and coach them through the basics of casting to achieve different fly presentations. More experienced anglers will find plenty of challenge fishing upstream with dry flies to rising redsides along the bank, dry-dropper or euro-nypmphing in riffles and swinging flies through riffles and runs with a two-handed rod.

Please understand: There is no fishing from a boat on the Lower Deschutes River, per state regulations- we exit the drift boat at each spot and wade fish.

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Klickitat River Salmon & Steelhead

Targets: Steelhead June through November, Salmon September through November
Cost: $600 for one or two anglers
Duration: 8 hours

Simply put, the Klickitat River Canyon, located on the Washington-side of the river in the Columbia River Gorge near Lyle, is flat-out beautiful. It just so happens to be home to some of the hardest-fighting salmon and steelhead that swim up the Columbia River from the North Pacific. This is due in part to the series of waterfalls that every fish in the Klickitat must clear in the lower 5 miles of the river before they can continue upstream into the canyon- only the strong ones make it!

We love floating the Klickitat in the fall when the cool weather brings out bright colored foliage to the banks and stable flows to the river. What the Klickitat lacks in size, it more than makes up for in its myriad of compelling runs and pools that are complimented with fish-holding structure that will both challenge and reward fly anglers of all skill levels.

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Sandy River Winter Steelhead

Targets: Winter Steelhead December through April, Spring Chinook March through April
Cost: $600 for one or two anglers
Duration: 8 hours

“I can’t believe we’re 20 minutes from Portland!” Boy, if I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard that one. But it’s a fact- with all the rainforest-y feels of a coastal Northwest river, minus all the drama that comes with the crowds, the day float from Dodge Park to Dabney Rec Area provides the discerning spey caster with more than a day’s worth of fun and challenging runs- just a short drive from PDX and about an hour from the Gorge. This big, beautiful, undammed river is born high on the west flanks of Mt. Hood- at the base of the Reid Glacier.

Each year, we look forward to the winter steelhead season. The Sandy produces some of the biggest, healthiest fish that we’ll see all year. The chance of hooking one of these minty colored beauties is damn well worth the effort under cold, often wet skies.

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Columbia River Day Trips

Targets: Smallmouth bass, shad, carp and juvenile sturgeon April through October
Cost: $450 for one or two anglers
Duration: 6-8 hours

Tired of crowded trout streams? Haven’t seen your backing in a while? Skookum Outfitters is proud to be one of the only fly fishing guide services offering trips on the Columbia in the scenic Columbia River Gorge. This is a great way to get your saltwater flats ‘fix,’ or practice for an upcoming saltwater trip.

Anglers of all skill levels will enjoy productive fishing for smallmouth bass, while more experienced anglers will have opportunities to spot and stalk carp and juvenile sturgeon in two to four feet of water. Opportunities to swing flies for hard-hitting shad exist from late-May through the end of July. We fish out of a boat as much as possible, but some of the best opportunities present themselves when we exit the boat to approach our targets on foot.

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Booking Your Trip!

If you’re interested in booking a trip or a class with us, please call or email to inquire about availability.

Once your date is confirmed, a 50% deposit is due immediately to hold your date. IMPORTANT: If you are booking a Lower Deschutes Trip, secure your BLM boater pass at this time. Failure to secure your boater pass will result in a non-refundable cancellation.

Trip balance is due 2 weeks prior to your trip date. Payments may be made by check, cash or card. Card payments will be charged an additional 3%.

View our cancellation policy here.