Oster Lake #3, ID
West Side of Pond
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
Pictures
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" |
Weather
Skies | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
---|---|---|---|
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 SlothWaypoints
No waypoints were saved with this outing.
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.