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Lake Billy Chinook

Type
Lake or reservoir, Oregon (West)
Designation
Featured sport-fishing water
USGS gauges
Lake gauge
Guides
2 name it
Shops
7 nearby

Today on Lake Billy Chinook

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Regulations & access Guides & shops

Lake Billy Chinook is a lake or reservoir in Oregon, listed as Featured sport-fishing water by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

More about Lake Billy Chinook

A USGS gauge reports the lake level; Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife lists 4 species, including bull trout, brown trout and kokanee. 7 guides and 7 shops nearby are listed here; the nearest destination hub is Bend & the Deschutes.

Updated · Sources: ODFW '50 places to go fishing' guides (Portland, Medford, Roseburg, Bend, Lane County, South Coast), Fishing Report - Central Zone | Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, USGS Water Data

Lake Billy Chinook filling a basalt canyon, with layered rimrock cliffs along the water
Photo credit

Lake Billy Chinook, Oregon. Photo: icetsarina, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Where it is

Lake Billy Chinook is a lake or reservoir in Oregon. Our destination hub Bend & the Deschutes is 37 mi away in a straight line and lists it among its waters.

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Where to fish

About this

Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Oregon fishing and trout stocking maps

Lake Billy Chinook on the map

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Gauges, shops and guides within 40 miles

Map of Lake Billy Chinook: gauges, shops and guides

RestroomsAccess map

Map of Lake Billy Chinook with 1 USGS gauge, and shops and guides with an exact address within 40 miles.

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors · OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles

Restrooms near Lake Billy Chinook

Restrooms near Lake Billy Chinook

Restrooms within 2 miles of Lake Billy Chinook in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.

No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.

Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.

Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.

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    Photo credit

    The Metolius River at sunrise with Mount Jefferson. Photo: Bonnie Moreland, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    Metolius River

    Oregon · about 6 mi

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  • The lower Deschutes River winding through a deep, dry basalt canyon above MaupinFeatured sport-fishing water
    Photo credit

    The lower Deschutes River canyon above Maupin, Oregon. Photo: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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    Oregon · about 11 mi

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  • The Crooked River flowing beneath rimrock and juniper slopes in the Chimney Rock segmentFeatured sport-fishing water
    Photo credit

    The Chimney Rock segment of the Crooked Wild and Scenic River, below Bowman Dam. Photo: Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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Regulations

About this

Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.

Official designation: Featured sport-fishing water

Each comes from the agency's own published list; where the list names a reach it is quoted. A designation applies to the listed reach, not necessarily the whole water. Listed in the finder under trout, bass.

The water on the map

About this

Measured from the NHDPlus High Resolution (flowlines and waterbodies) (U.S. Geological Survey, read 2026-11-04) for this water’s own mapped feature. Rounded figures; they describe the channel, not today’s conditions.

Surface area
3,600 acres
Watershed
Upper Deschutes

Public land along it

About this

Areas the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), public access (U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project, read 2026-11-05) lists as owned or held in easement and open to the public, crossed by the mapped shoreline. Boundaries are mapped, not surveyed. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

18 of 55.4 mi of shoreline on public land

  • Prineville Deschutes Field OfficeBureau of Land Management · 14.4 mi
  • Crooked River National GrasslandForest Service · 3.2 mi
  • Deschutes National ForestForest Service · 0.3 mi

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Guides and shops near Lake Billy Chinook

About this

Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

2 guides name it on their website

Guides

All Oregon guides

7 shops nearby

All Oregon shops

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. After them, fly-focused guides within 40 miles whose website does not name it. Distances are straight-line.

Shops: fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop’s website gives its location (within 60 miles); otherwise the shop is in one of the towns within 25 miles of the water.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Species and hatches

About this

The species the agency lists here; presence varies by reach and season.

Listed by the state agency

  • kokanee

When the bugs come off

Regional hatch months: Pacific Northwest
About this chart

1 hatch charted for the region, not measured on this water. From Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife.

  1. January: no charted hatch
  2. February: no charted hatch
  3. March: no charted hatch
  4. April: no charted hatch
  5. May: 1 charted hatch
  6. June: no charted hatch
  7. July: no charted hatch
  8. August: no charted hatch
  9. September: no charted hatch
  10. October: no charted hatch
  11. November: no charted hatch
  12. December: no charted hatch

Salmonfly (May)

Bend & the Deschutes

About this

Bend sits on the upper Deschutes River in central Oregon, with the Crooked and Metolius rivers to the north and the lower Deschutes canyon downstream toward Maupin.

Destination hub · 37 mi away in a straight line

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Fish these abroad

About this

Matched on the fish the agencies list for both waters first, then the same water type, an official designation or flagship listing on both, and a similar mapped size where USGS hydrography covers both.

At most two waters per country. A shared fish is a listing, not a promise: presence varies by reach and season.

Like Lake Billy Chinook? Same fish, overseas.

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    Photo credit

    Penstock Lagoon, Central Highlands, Tasmania. Photo: Mike Cline, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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Fish it when it's winter here

Southern seasons open while ours close.

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    Photo credit

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A stillwater fly-fishing checklist for lakes and ponds: a 9–10 ft 5–6 weight rod, floating and intermediate lines, chironomids and leeches, and float-tube options, with estimated prices and where to buy.

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A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.

Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the point for “Lake Billy Chinook” (reservoir) in the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Water type is our own classification.