On Lake Billy Chinook, anglers are allowed to keep one bull trout longer than 24 inches per day, according to the 2023 Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations. If they keep one, they can continue fishing ...

BEND — Bend’s Ryan Mejaski and Joe Wilhite were fishing for kokanee on the Deschutes arm of Lake Billy Chinook on April 8 without much luck when they decided to move spots.

LAKE BILLY CHINOOK: Kokanee are very active in the Crooked and Deschutes River arms. Look for feeding bull trout below the schools of kokanee. METOLIUS RIVER: Trout fishing has been good.

Most anglers this time of year at Lake Billy Chinook are fishing for kokanee, and fishing reportedly has been good for that species. But other anglers like to troll for bulls in the Deschutes or ...

The fishing was hot all morning, but it tapered off by about 11:30 a.m. When we left at 1:30 p.m., we had caught and released 12 fish among the three of us, ranging in length from 16 to 18 inches.

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.

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.

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.

Apr. 29—On April 8, Ryan Mejaski and Joe Wilhite were fishing for kokanee on the Deschutes arm of Lake Billy Chinook without much luck when they decided to move spots. After casting into a group ...

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.