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Anglers should be cautious and not fish at times when the ice is not solid enough to safely walk on the lake.

ODFW switched Diamond Lake to year-round fishing in 2013, creating a new wintertime opportunity for Oregon ice fishing when conditions allow. If you’re driving in, give yourself an hour and a half from Klamath Falls, close to two hours from Bend, two and a half hours from Eugene and at least four hours from the Portland area. The tiger and brown trout must be released if caught. The tigers and browns feed more aggressively on small fish than typical rainbows and it is hoped they can help control chubs or other unwelcome species such as golden shiner minnows, which also are invasive and likely introduced through illegal fishing with live bait. ODFW in 2016 started stocking sterile “tiger trout” (a brown trout-brook trout cross) and brown trout and will take other measures such as netting and electro-fishing.

The practice is highly illegal in Oregon and has resulted in previous explosions of tui chub populations. These invasive fish are thought by many to have been introduced as the result of people using the live minnows for bait. Unfortunately, in recent years state biologists monitoring the lake have trapped more chubs, although at this writing their population isn’t yet as extreme as earlier infestations. Rainbows survive the winters well and it’s not all that uncommon for anglers to catch trout tipping the scales at 12 pounds or better in this large and beautiful lake high in the Cascade Mountains in the upper North Umpqua River drainage east of Roseburg. In fact, Diamond Lake is very deservedly on our list of best rainbow trout fishing lakes in Oregon.ĭiamond Lake’s famous insect populations have rebounded after being grazed down by the chubs, and fingerling trout stocked in the lake once again pack on an inch or more a month during the season. Despite some high-profile battles with invasive tui chubs, Diamond Lake remains one of the crown jewels among family trout lakes in Oregon.

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