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    Default Wickiup Reservoir

    Wickiup Reservoir • Open Apr 22 - Oct 31. • 5 kokanee per day in addition to daily trout limit. No size limits. REDUCED TO 5 KOKES PER DAY????? WHAT HAPPENED??

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    The lake is biologically dying. Millions of bullhead catfish, or mud cats are eating any baby fish that is hatched. Any baby fish. Kokanee or trout.

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    Default Still a few around

    This board is really dead for Oregon reports hoping to spark it a bit. Two hour fish this morning. No monsters but a really nice grade of fish. Orange PPT hootchies and orange/gold teardrops were hot. Lake is dropping fast and fish are being forced from the shallows back into the channels.
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    What an impressive load of fish! I am really curious as to how you find the eating quality of those fish. In the past due to the higher water temps and the shallow nature of the lake ( I think ), the fish have had a very unpleasant " muddy" taste after the fist 4-6 weeks of the season. Have you ever experienced that? If you have, is there any thing you do to remedy it ( like soak in milk etc. )? You are certainly the pro on that lake. Congrats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BILLA View Post
    What an impressive load of fish! I am really curious as to how you find the eating quality of those fish. In the past due to the higher water temps and the shallow nature of the lake ( I think ), the fish have had a very unpleasant " muddy" taste after the fist 4-6 weeks of the season. Have you ever experienced that? If you have, is there any thing you do to remedy it ( like soak in milk etc. )? You are certainly the pro on that lake. Congrats.


    Fish taste terrible, I wouldn't recommend anyone trying to catch these fish this time of year. You need to bleed them and then right into an ice bath/salt slurry, inside a plastic bag so they are not actually in the water. This basically starts to freeze the fish. I have eaten them off the BBQ well into Aug using this method. 98% of the fish we catch are headed to the smoker. I know some folks have a more delicate palette than I do.

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