The Metolius arm contains the highest population of bull trout of the three river arms of Lake Billy Chinook, but it’s closed to angling until March 1, and a Warm Springs tribal angling permit ...

The current state record bull trout was caught in 1989 from Lake Billy Chinook and weighed 23 lbs., 2 ounces. The world record from Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho in 1949 tipped the scales at 32 lbs.

LAKE BILLY CHINOOK, Ore. — The section of water just downstream of where the Deschutes River flows into Lake Billy Chinook is a special place to me.

(Casting with lures toward shore is another popular technique to fish for bulls on Lake Billy Chinook.) Anglers are allowed to keep one bull trout longer than 24 inches per day on Lake Billy.

Federally listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act of 1998, bull trout are continuing to thrive in Lake Billy Chinook, one of the few bodies of water in the country where they can be ...

The current state r ecord bull trout was caught in 1989 from Lake Billy Chinook and weighed 23 lbs., 2 ounces. The world record from Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho in 1949 tipped the scales at 32 lbs.

That’s a lot of bull, pardon the pun, but Travis missed the 33-year-old state record by 1 pound, 13 ounces. That fish, 23 pounds, 2 ounces, was caught by Don Yow in 1989 on Billy Chinook.

My friends Ben Fry and Dean Limb went to LBC a few weeks ago and absolutely cleaned up. Between them, they landed more than 100 bull trout and at least that many kokanee in a weekend of hard fishing.

Anglers are allowed to keep one bull trout longer than 24 inches per day on Lake Billy Chinook. Rainbow trout longer than 20 inches and kokanee exceeding 16 inches must be released.

Steve Kelly, left, and Rick Arnold hold up a bull trout that Kelly caught while footage was being filmed for an ”American Outdoorsman” television show about Lake Billy Chinook. The fish ...

The current Oregon record for a bull trout is 23 pounds, 2 ounces, caught in 1989 from Lake Billy Chinook. The world record is 32 pounds caught in 1949 from Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho.

The current state record bull trout was caught in 1989 from Lake Billy Chinook and weighed 23 pounds, 2 ounces, according to the ODFW. The world record from Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, in 1949 ...