
Diamond Lake trout are fat, feisty and flashy. Oregon’s gem of the Cascades has returned to its former glory.Bill Monroe for The Oregonian/OregonLive
DIAMOND LAKE — We huddled against a chilly north wind as my daughter’s husband cast his worn and trout-tested ultra-light spinning outfit, propelling a hand-crafted yellow PowerBait glob downwind to land in a caldera of weeds.
Assured it reached the bottom, he laid it in a rod holder and turned to attend his wife’s setup.
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