Summer hatches are almost in full swing and The Patient Angler fellas have been putting some time in on the water in between (and after) quite a few busy shop days.  The lower Deschutes was fishing great in the evening with a few euro rod fish, a few chubby eats, and a lot of caddis dries.  The caddis action should be excellent down there throughout the summer, but the salmonfly/golden stone hatch is now pretty much over.  The lower Mckenzie had a smattering of big bugs such as green drakes and golden stones, but not much activity on top until the evening as well.  Those hatches should be going well out there now.  Cloud cover always helps the dry action on those two rivers, and PMD/PED mayflies were flying on the Mckenzie to round out the dry fly activity.  Up higher on the Mckenzie the hatches should be about the same, and a well fished euro set up always does well out there.  Swinging trout spey flies is a fun alternative on the Mckenzie because it has a lot of nice swinging runs, and below Leaburg Dam you may run in to a summer steelhead.  A few springers were rowed over as well but none caught that we saw.  East and Paulina lakes have had decent ant fishing on top, and Crane has even had a few days of ants as well.  Just be careful at Crane to not get into any arguments with bank fishermen.  Callibaetis and damsels should be right around the corner when the weather warms back up again.  Wickiup has been hit or miss, but some good fish have been caught out there on terrestrials as well as standard leech/chironomid rigs.  Most of the lakes seem to have the same theme of fish being spread out and taking some work to find.  The high water is down to normal or below normal in most of the rivers around central Oregon, and water temps are fishable all over.  It should be a great time to get out and fish pretty much anywhere in central Oregon.  Eastern Oregon rivers are prime levels right now, so if you feel like going on an adventure, that would be the direction I would head.