Oster Lake #3, ID

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Outing Information

Date
Start/End Time
6:30pm to 9:30pm
Best Fishing Time
-
Rating
Fair
Classification
Public
Water Temp
70.0°F
Water Clarity
Clear - 5'+ visibility
Water Level
-
User
Jason Hansen

Pictures

Fish Caught

Gold Trout

Caught Avg Size Pattern Optional Fields
3 16" #14 Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear
3 16"

Rainbow Trout

Caught Avg Size Pattern Optional Fields
2 16" #14 Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear
2 12" #14 Pheasant Tail Flashback BH
4 14"
Total: 7 fish Top Patterns: Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear (5) Pheasant Tail Flashback BH (2)

Weather

SkiesMorningAfternoonEvening
Sunny X
Mostly Sunny X
Precipitation
None X
Wind
None X
Very Light - <5 knots X
Air Temp High/Low
80.0°F / -
Wind Direction
-
Weather Front
-
Barometer
-
Moon Phase
61% Full (Waxing gibbous)

Other Patterns Tried

  • #14 Green Scud

Hatches

No hatch information for this outing.

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 float tubed OsLa#3 and did decent but not great. It was cool in the float tubes, we could spot a school of gold trout cruising around. They were skittish to the fly line landing over them, so some care had to be made to cast well in front of them. I had a decent evening, landing 7 and getting 10 or so other hits.

The most memorable hit was on a glass bead scud I had tied for the trip. I made just one of the flies and on my first cast and retrieve with it, I got an impressively jarring strike that snapped the 4x tippet instantly. I tried a couple other scud patterns I had but none matched the size or color of the original.

I had my best luck during the night with a medium-speed hand-twist retrieve.