Oster Lake #3, ID

West Side of Pond

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Outing Information

Date
Start/End Time
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Best Fishing Time
-
Rating
Great
Classification
Public
Water Temp
59.0°F
Water Clarity
Clear - 5'+ visibility
Water Level
-
User
Jason Hansen

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Fish Caught

Rainbow Trout

Caught Avg Size Pattern Optional Fields
8 13" #12 Pheasant Tail Notable Fish: 1 @ 15", 3 @ 14"
Water Depth: 1' - 3'
Kept/Released: / 8
Retrieve: slow hand-twist
8 13"
Total: 8 fish Top Patterns: Pheasant Tail (8)

Weather

SkiesMorningAfternoonEvening
Mostly Sunny X
Mostly Cloudy X
Precipitation
None X
Wind
None X
Very Light - <5 knots X
Air Temp High/Low
65.0°F / 60.0°F
Wind Direction
-
Weather Front
-
Barometer
-
Moon Phase
81% Full (Waxing gibbous)

Other Patterns Tried

  • #14 Tan Hairwing Dun

Hatches

  • #12-#14 gray Speckle-Wing Quill Ephemeroptera Callibaetis

Insect Seining

No seining information for this outing.

Fishing Partners

Karl Sloth

Waypoints

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Tides

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Notes

Karl and I walked back from the main Oster Pond and didn't see any activity on the east side of Oster Pond #3. I stopped by and fished Oster Pond #2 for a bit while Karl walked around #3. I caught a couple bluegill and had a couple trout on but lost them both. It was hard to cast and really, not much was happening.

I walked over to #3 and there were lots of rises out towards the middle of the pond on the west side. Despite the whole lake being quite shallow, It was near impossible to wade out because the bottom was a soft mud. I found a string of underwater rocks that allowed me to wade out 20' or so from the shore, and I began casting a pheasant tail to rise forms and retrieving very slowly with a hand-twist retrieve. I did quite well and landed several fish in a short time while also missing a few. Karl was trying to catch some of the fish closer to shore on dries and had a couple on but landed none. It was a fun pond to fish.

The callibaetis duns riding the water were large and quite neat looking - they looked like little sailboats and you could spot them from 20-30' away when the wind was calm. The trout were taking them with large gulps. If the rise patterns would have been more consistent from the fish (and if I hadn't done so well with nymphs) I would have tried some dry patterns.