Oregon Brown Trout

[KillinTime]

Took a 2,500 mile road trip pulling the trailer to the Cascade Mountains and everywhere in-between. Had a chance to fish Diamond Lake, about a half an hour from Crater Lake.

Took out the kayak and it was windy. Sucks because it was glass the evening before, but that's the way it goes when you want to stuff 7 days of adventure into 3 days in that area. High class problem??

We threw Rapala Broken Minnows. It was difficult to fish with wind and chop. There was whitecaps. We got got one bite. It was on a Rapala Broken Minnow 9 cm in black and silver on 4 lbs test. It was a good one. 22 inch Brown that hit very soft, but put up a real good scrap! Fish was in approximately 10 feet of water.

Regardless of how the pic looks, I did my best to only hold it by the gill plate and not touch his gills. It was difficult to manage the kayak paddle, fishing rod and the trout in the chop. Pics looks calmer than it was.

[Stringbean]

Beauty,
Awesome catch. That is a fantastic bait to troll.
Bass love them on leadcore.

[foulhook]

Nice going! That's a beautiful brown trout

[Carpkiller]

Beauty, eh.

Why didn't you just lip him?

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[Midnightpass]

Nice brownie.. I fished that lake with my Brother, Sister, Cousin and Stepdad when I was a kid… Best trout fishing I ever did… We all limited out 2 days running with Kamloops rainbows that averaged 2#s after being gutted.. All bright pink meat… My Mom and Aunt caned most of the fish… Just excellent!
Butch