Odell Report, August 2-3

[moknots]

Odell is looking much better, and fishing well. Visited Sunday and Monday with my dad, and the weather was great, the algea bloom over, and the water clearing. I could easily see a dodger more than 15 deep on it's way down -- a huge improvement from just last week when the lake was a hideous green/brown.
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Diamond Peak was looking spectacular. These views of the mountain and the lake are from "Eagle Rock", just a short walk south on the Pacific Crest Trail from highway 58 -- an easy and rewarding hike.

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Fishing was really "on" for trolling. We found schools of feeding fish scattered all over the lake. Nothing big, but lots of them, and they were cooperating:excited:. Surface temp was an unbelievable 74 degrees, so no big surprize to find the fish at 35 to 60 feet. We didn't hound the schools too hard, because we got bit as often when we weren't marking dense concentrations of fish as when we were. Plays to the theory that cruising packs of just a few fish are more agressive biters than big schools. Tried a lot of different colors but could never improve on pink. Ran a spinner for a while without a hit, so we stuck with hootchies and tubes behind dodgers. Trolling speed was a surprize -- we got many hits at 1.4 to 1.7, and far fewer from 1.0 to 1.2. We managed limits both days.

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Dad with Sunday's catch. Go get 'em, and let us know how you do!

[dlm]

1. Great Pictures.
2. Glad you can spend time fishing with your dad, I miss that.
3. I hope you cleaned the fish and let dad relax.
4. Interesting cleaning station, does not look like it came out of Cabela's.

[FallRiverGuy]

Great report and banner weekend. Those fish are starting look descent size. Also glad to hear that the new mojo is working in full force.

[cityfisher]

Nice job Moknots! You guys really got into them!

I fished 7/29 - 8/3 and can echo his report (though with not nearly as many fish :).) The water cleared up a lot in the time I was there and the fishing got better each day.

We fished mostly Apex (green with prism tape and UV Pink) behind dodgers with the occasion spinner or needlefish thrown in for variety. I did try the hoochie but went without a hit...maybe I was going to slow??

I can't wait to go back.

Jay

Odell Lake Sunrise and my friend's first Kokanee

[hookumhi]

Great report and pics :applause: Time with fishing with your Dad PRICELESS:meme::meme::meme::meme:

[eric71m]

Well done Mike... another nice day on the lake with the fam, o and good catching to boot...:applause::applause::applause:

[chukardave1]

Boy, you sure know how to make a guy forget about work and start thinking about koke fishing. Great work.

[KRTGrumpy]

Great post, nice work! We were just up the road at Diamond during this same time... Looks like we didn't do as much cleaning as you did.

:applause:

[SilverBullets]

Great report Mike, thanks for sharing. :applause: Looks like your Dad had a good time...did he let you catch any?

[Buck]

Very nice mess of fish. Bet that kept you guys busy for awhile. Well done and nice report!

[fishcrazy123]

good for you. ive been to busy trying to get some stupid steelhead in warm water (almost impossible).

[grayfish]

NICE kokes and some awesome pictures sure must be cool to fish with dad thanks for sharing Mike

[TakeEm]

Wow the fish have gotten alot better looking then they were in late june!! Thanks for the great post and pics! Great job! So when did you say the BBQ was? LOL!

[Klamanite]

Nice haul, looks like fun :D