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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A11 Goal! WILSON, continued from Page A8 KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald McNary’s Gustavo Villalvazo nets the game-winning shot in a contest with Ridgeview High School Tuesday, Sept. 1. Miguel Bravo set up the shot with a corner kick. McNary won 5-1 in the fi rst varsity contest on the school’s new artifi cial turf. KEIZER CLASSIFIEDS LOST & FOUND LOST: Firebird Delta Ray RC Plane. Flying at Cummings Elementary on evening of Sunday, August 23rd. May have fl own as far as River Road. This was a gift for a child. Would appreciate if it was returned. Please call 503-269-8056. 0911 Facilities have changed but chunky rainbows are still there in good numbers. A diet of aquatic insects produce fat, pink-meated rainbows that bring anglers back year after year. Like in fi shing, sometimes in writing you have to have some luck. In planning for a couple of articles on fi shing Diamond Lake, I make the necessary phone calls to set up inter- views with local experts for the articles. My wife and I make the 200-mile drive to get there. Both guys are no-shows. We are pretty disappointed. All those miles, and expected resources not there. What the heck. We’re here for the night, let’s enjoy the beautiful view and dinner in the dining room. As we walk across the cof- fee shop, we see two guys communicating in Ameri- can Sign Language. Here are two guys I watched graduate from the Oregon School for the Deaf 30 plus years ago. I haven’t seen them in years. They are there to fi sh a tournament with members of the Fishing Club for the Deaf. Don Burks, now of Van- couver, Wash., has fi shed Dia- mond Lake for years. His fam- ily would even come up here ice fi shing. “I grew up fi shing this lake,” he said, with a grin, and big wink. “I caught seven today. He only got one.” Both agree it had been a slow day. “I don’t remember when I started coming up here,” Mike Morton, of Springfi eld adds. “I come several times a year.” They are pre-fi shing for the tournament coming up in two days. “I want to have a honey-hole located,” Mor- ton explains with a wide grin, fl ashing through a mass of red beard. “I won it last year on the last day, with an 18½-incher. Won it the year before, too.” Just like that, I have a cou- ple of experts on catching the famous rainbows of Diamond Lake. Back home, more “luck” comes my way. I make a dumb, $1,000 mistake backing out of Larry Jackson with a nice Diamond Lake rainbow trout. Submitted the driveway. I take my car to the body shop for repair, start talking fi shing with one of the owners, Larry Jackson, of Keizer. Guess what, he has fi shed Diamond Lake for years. Lady Luck has smiled. I now have access to fi shing information I need to do my work. Jackson, of Keizer, grew up fi shing Diamond Lake. “I think I was eight years old when we started fi shing there,” he explains. “We would sleep in tents and rent boats.” When Jackson had sons of his own, he wanted them to enjoy fi shing Diamond Lake as he had done. In 1989 he started going back. “This year was our 18 th year in a row,” he adds, with a big grin. “Actually, one of my boys made the trip a couple of months before he was born.” The Blackbird 5,000 Tournament is the big event of the year at the lake. One year, more than 1,000 boats entered. From photos in the lodge, looks like you could walk across the lake on boats. Jackson and the boys fi shed the tournament one year. One of the boys placed 18th with an 18-incher. “In the early days we caught most of our fi sh troll- ing,” he explains. “We had our best luck with little brass lures. Most of the time we used Triple Teasers. If brass didn’t produce, we would switch to blue.” “I like to use miniature marshmallows. They fl oat nicely off the bottom,” Jack- son explains. “You have to have your bait off the bottom. That’s why Power Bait is so successful. I like to use night- crawlers too.” Today, the annual Jack- son trek to Diamond Lake is July 4th. It’s a family affair: grandpa, kids and grandkids. “I don’t fi sh much any more,” Jackson explains. “I like to do the cooking. My specialty is the ribs.” Morton and Burks prefer fl oating bait off the bottom also. Over the years they have learned a number of “honey holes” that produce for them. Today, the majority of boaters anchor up and bait fi sh. Berkley Power Bait is the number one seller at the ma- rina. Proper anchoring is im- portant in bait fi shing off the bottom. The boat has to be stationary to feel the subtle bite of trout. To keep your sinker in place, two anchors must be deployed to keep the boat from swinging in the wind. A daily limit is eight, of which one can be 20 inches or more. By June of this year sev- eral four pounders had been checked in at the marina. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Department says there are 250,000 rainbows in the lake. Last season produced one trout heavier than 12 pounds and “lots of 4 and 5 pounders.” The season opens the fourth Saturday in April and closes Oct. 31. There is no longer ice fi shing on the lake. Diamond Lake is a natural body of water in the heart of the Southern Cascades. It lies near the junction of Oregon Hwy 138 and Hwy 230. Drivers from Keizer to Di- amond Lake have three beau- tiful routes through the Cas- cades. Highway 22 to Bend, then south on Hwy 97 to 138. I-5 south to Eugene, then 58 across to 97 to 138. Or, south on I-5 to Roseburg then 138, following the North Fork of the Umpqua River, one of the most beautiful drives in Or- egon. How about this for a great fi shing trip? 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