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SD2OR with a trophy fall walleye

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Risabee

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  • Location: PLEASANT HILL
  • Date Registered: Mar 2018
  • Posts: 6
I'm 68, a grandma, most often seen trouting on Dexter Lake in winter or on Cascade lakes in summer in a green Micro Poke Boat or sometimes an old yellow Trinity Bay Critter.


YippieKaiyak

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  • Location: Hillsboro, OR
  • Date Registered: Feb 2017
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Welcome!  That boat looks pretty cool.  Never heard of one before, but I like it.  :)
Kayaking without wearing a PFD is like drunk driving.  You can get away with it for a while, but eventually someone dies.


Risabee

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« Last Edit: March 13, 2018, 07:07:57 AM by Risabee »


Matt M

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Welcome!! I've often eye'd dexter lake on my way out to Odell lake, how is the fishing there?
-Matt

Old Town Sportsman 120 PDL


Risabee

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Terrible for the last decade but things are looking up, for some reason. In summer you mostly get pikeminnows unless specifically targeting bass. Fall through spring the stocked rainbows are more available, and when the bite is on you can limit. Look for an afternoon bite in a south wind with a falling barometer. East winds are terrible. Holdovers are lounging near Dexter Park this winter, surface feeding, but will move into the riverbed along 58 soon.

Largest trout I've ever taken was 16 inches and two pounds. Largest smallmouth was two and a half pounds. Ten inch trout are more typical.

I troll two lightweight rods these days, 4 lb test leaders, with nightcrawler pieces, one with a split shot and one without until they tell me where they're hanging out. Bites are 50 feet from the boat. Not usually very successful here with artificials, except sometimes pink worms.
« Last Edit: March 13, 2018, 03:34:22 PM by Risabee »


YippieKaiyak

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That's a fat 16 incher!  Do you ever try dodgers and whatnot?  Sometimes at Hagg I run typical Kokanee gear and get slammed, other times I do better long lining a fly rod (which really sucks trying to bring in... want to get my hands on one of those older multiplier fly reels... I lose so many fish)
Kayaking without wearing a PFD is like drunk driving.  You can get away with it for a while, but eventually someone dies.


Risabee

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My fly reel, from the Herters catalog, is fifty years old. FWIW I always understood it to be for line storage mainly, and maintain pressure on the hook by stripping line in.

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