East Lake is good

East Lake - La Pine, OR (Deschutes County)


by The Fly Fishers Place
7-14-2023
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East Lake is good, but I have one complaint about the lake this year and that is there are too many 10″ kokanee. Nymphing is basically a Kokanee show and you have to weed through 20 koke’s to get one trout. Not always of course, and being in the right place is key, but how can we know were they are going to be? We can’t. So I have been doing a lot of dry callibaetis and beetles and catching some nice trout on the top. Damsels are also important at East, and walking the shore with a damsel nymph is a good bet and a lot of fun right now too. East lake is the best walk and wade lake in the region, so you don’t always need a boat.




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The Fly Fishers Place Reports
for Friday, July 14th, 2023

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Crooked River: The Crooked River is fishing quite nicely with some afternoon PMD hatches
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McKenzie River: The McKenzie has been really good
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