Clear Lakes, ID
Outing Information
- Date
- Start/End Time
- 11:30am to 5:00pm
- Best Fishing Time
- -
- Rating
- Fair
- Classification
- Public
- Water Temp
- -
- Water Clarity
- Clear - 5'+ visibility
- Water Level
- -
- User
- Jason Hansen
Pictures
Fish Caught
Rainbow Trout
| Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20" | #14 Red Copper John | |
| 1 | 20" |
Weather
| Skies | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudy | X | X | X |
| Precipitation | |||
| None | X | X | X |
| Wind | |||
| None | X | ||
| Very Light - <5 knots | X | X | X |
| Light - 5 to 10 knots | X | X |
- Air Temp High/Low
- 40.0°F / 35.0°F
- Wind Direction
- -
- Weather Front
- -
- Barometer
- -
- Moon Phase
- 27% Full (Waxing crescent)
Other Patterns Tried
- #10 Olive Woolly Bugger BH
- #16 Black Zebra Midge
- #12 Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear BH
- #12 Pheasant Tail Flashback
- #18 Pheasant Tail BH
- #16 Black California Leech
- #8 Rust Mohair Leech
- #14 Rio Grande King
Hatches
No hatch information for this outing.
Insect Seining
No seining information for this outing.
Fishing Partners
Karl SlothWaypoints
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Tides
No tide information was saved with this outing.
Notes
I arrived a little later than I would have liked, and it took awhile to pump up the pontoons and assemble the boat. By the time I was in the water and fishing it was around 11:30am. Overall, the day was okay. I landed 1 20" rainbow that looked okay. Karl landed 5 or 6 I think. I had one fish take off to the middle of the lake and I fought him for 10 minutes before the hook came loose. I also had a handful of other hits, but no hook-ups. I talked to a guy that had been fishing there that morning and he ended up with around 11 for the day.
A couple notes:
- Even though it's a small lake, there is a slow current that runs from the hatchery outputs-end of the lake to the lake's outlet. From paddling around during the afternoon, the only place I found fish were along the south shore of the lake, within 10' of the shore, and they all faced "upstream". I did not find fish along the north shore or in the eastern flats.
- The fish held within 1' of the surface for some reason. Often if I casted directly on top of a few fish, I would see several swirls from the spooked fish.
- The fish did not react to still flies. I tried some small midge patterns and let them drift with the current and fish ignored them.