I am a little behind on this thread but hope no one minds if I chime in.
I live in Redmond and fish Lake Billy Chinook quite a bit. My profile picture was actually in the crooked river arm. :-)
I am hoping to get up there in July and do some bass fishing. there are some really good spots by...
I use Sea Foam in my boat and truck gas tanks all of the time. I just add some when I fill up. It has made a noticeable difference in how my older trucks run. Plus I just pulled apart an original 1977 460 from my truck to rebuild and was very supprised at how clean the valves and heads were is...
Thoes are some nice bull trout you are holding. I think next year I am going to buy the year long tribal permit :) I purchased one and two day passes this year and spent well over what the entire year would cost.
Here is a photo of the 24.5 inch bull trout I caught in Lake Billy Chinook a month back (before I joined the forum). I wish I had a scale with me to weigh it.
It is one thing to say that I have caught fish so here is some proof. ;)
I finaly took some of the pictures off my camera.
Nice smallies.
Mt. Jefferson in the background.
The views from Lake Billy Chinook are stunning. The fishing is good too.
That is a bummer... :( The weather has gone down in this last week. It rained on and off where I live today too. I am hoping for another warm spell so the fishing will pick up again. It is not uncommon for thunder storms to roll through late in the dog days of summer but this cold snap is no...
They did pretty good but that was several weeks ago and a cold front just rolled through. Temps here are in the upper 50s to low 60s during the day and in the mid 30s at night and I think the pressure change has caused a bit of a slow down. I was on Crane last weekend when the weather really...
You are most welcome :)
Where I live is right in the middle of all of those lakes (45 min drive in any one direction although some are a little closer).
I am happy to share what I see, hear and experience first hand.
I have a family member that works at one of the local sporting good stores and I talk to the locals out at the lakes too, so here is what I have heard and seen...
Wickiup - 30% of full pool fish are in the deep chaneels but fishing is slow
Crane Prarie - Fishing is ok in the channels for trout...
Crane Prairie
Crane Prairie
I went to Crane Prairie on Sunday and feed my outboard propeller to some rock fish. The morning started nice and placid. I launched at the resort and poked around the snags for awhile but not much was biting so I headed to the west side of the lake. I guess a front...
We need a Lake Billy Chinook Section LOL… I took a couple of friends up there on Saturday and we caught over 40 small mouth bass. We kept 6 for dinner and released the rest. We were in the Metolius arm of the lake just north of Chinook Island fishing the rock along the north shore. We used...
If you want to catch fish but don’t really care if they are big fish I would suggest the short (45 min or so) drive to Prineville Reservoir. I am not sure if you are shore fishing or boat fishing but either way if you drive to the State park then take a right and follow the road towards the...