Little Lava Lake was terrific

Little Lava Lake - Bend, OR (Deschutes County)


by The Fly Fishers Place
6-14-2025
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Little Lava Lake was terrific for us this week too, and it was dynamite to see a good callibaetis hatch with fish on the dries. We did best on an Olive Haze (it’s a fave of mine for Callibaetis) and a Halo Emerger (look up Gary Lafontaine’s Halo Emerger and read the book by him called Fly Fishing the Mountain Lakes)
We also got fish up to a Jiggy Twist Beetle, which is thrilling since so many of my other lake days have been sans dry fly action so far this season. 
But what really smoked ’em was a Jig Callibaetis Cate under an indicator. Ridiculous how many takes we got on that. 
The fish are a little small, and some a little skinny, but the season will feed them well and I see a great year ahead at Little Lava.