Oster Lake #3, ID

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Outing Information

Date: Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Start/End Time: 2:00 to 5:30
Best Fishing Time: -
Rating: Good

Classification: Public
Water Temp: -
Water Clarity: Clear - 5'+ visibility
Water Level: -
User: karl

Fish Caught

Golden Trout

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern	Optional Fields
2	16"	#20 Rust Zebra Midge	Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 3' - 6' Retrieve: none - light hang and bob
1	18"	#20 Black Zebra Midge	Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 3' - 6' Retrieve: none - light hang and bob
1	16"	#20 Brown foam midge emerger	Fish Depth: < 1' Water Depth: 3' - 6' Retrieve: chuck and sit Notes: This was the only surface midge pattern that worked. I had another strike on this fly but missed it. This fly used orange foam, which may have helped trigger the takes since the midges hatching had rust/burnt orange colored wings. This fly had several
4	16½"

Rainbow Trout

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern	Optional Fields
3	12"	#20 Rust Zebra Midge	Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 3' - 6' Retrieve: none - light hang and bob
1	16"	#20 Black Zebra Midge	Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 3' - 6' Retrieve: none - light hang and bob
4	13"

Total: 8 fish Top Patterns: Zebra Midge (7) foam midge emerger (1)

Weather

Skies	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Mostly Cloudy		X
Precipitation
None		X
Wind
Light - 5 to 10 knots		X

Air Temp High/Low: 55.0°F / -
Wind Direction: -
Weather Front: -
Barometer: -
Moon Phase: 92% Full (Waning gibbous)

Other Patterns Tried

#12 Red Chironocone
#20 Black Griffith Gnat
#20 Black Hacklestack
#18 Gray Hacklestack
#20 Gray Adams
#20 Red Brassie
#20 Yellow foam midge emerger
#20 Black foam midge emerger

Hatches

20 rust/burnt orange wing, light gr Midge Diptera

Insect Seining

No seining information for this outing.

Fishing Partners

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Waypoints

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Notes

Not a bad outing. I probably could have caught more but I focused on dry flies only for about an hour. A nice midge hatch took place in the calmer waters by the island and had fish rising the entire time. The zebra midge was very productive but I couldn't find a productive surface fly even though there was alot of action on the surface. I tried nearly all my midge and small fly patterns but only the foam midge emerger with brown body, wulff hackle, and orange foam received any interest, and even that fly was ignored/refused more often than not. I need to work on some better midge emerger patterns.

There was a ridiculous number of people at OsLa #1 and half a dozen people fishing with bait from the banks on OsLa #3 at any given time. I saw a total of 2 fish caught by the bait fishers. I overheard some kid say to his mom "Why would anybody fish from a boat?" referring to me in my float tube. So to answer the kid I put a zebra midge dropper back on my line and landed 2 fish within 10 minutes. Recognize. :^)