Re: Busy weekend ahead, where will you be?
Well,<br /><br />We did a 1 night quick-trip to Diamond Lake Oregon. I caught a 17 1/2" trout on my ultra-light pole. NICE FISH!<br /><br />We went back home and found out the Fish and Wildlife shut all swimming down in the lake due to the algae blooming and toxins it may cause. They said they may close the whole thing by today. This was caused by some moron introducing the TUI CHUB (trash fish) to the lake some years ago. The chub eat the algae-eating fish, and so on...Too bad too, since Diamond lake used to be a trophy lake.<br /><br />We was on our way to Odel Lake, Oregon (VERY big fish there)...about 2 hours from Diamond lake.<br />We were about half way there and started smelling the all-too-familiar forest burning smell. <br />We stopped at the next ranger station and found out that a forest fire broke out (The Davis fire) very close to the lake. <br />Apparently you couldn't even see across the lake due to the smoke.<br /><br />So, we drove about an hour to a smaller lake to find it's campgrounds full. #&!!(%!<br /><br />Went to another lake closer to home... You guessed it..FULL...<br />(*&^*$%!_)%$*&<br /><br />So, we found ourselves at a high lake today. We fished until the afternoon with only 1 fish being landed by my daughter. <br />The sonar marked a ton of fish, but I think it was marking weeds, because there is no way there can be that many fish and no bites. <br />I'm not entirely sure how to set the fish finder, since I'm still kinda new at it. (Lowrance X65) It had to be a false bottom reading of weeds, since anywhere in the lake marked fish at 12 to 15 feet. If there are any Lowrance gurus here, I could use the advice!<br /><br />Anyhow..back to our camping dilema...<br />Since we only got 1 fish (nobody else was catching them either), we decided to come home and try skiing tomorrow and hopefully dodge the rest of the boaters.<br /><br />With the major lakes smoked and algae'd in, the next (and only) biggest lake is Lost Creek lake.<br /><br />I'm almost just want to get a lawn chair out and wait for the 'dock-side' olympics to begin!<br /><br />If anyone is there, I don't know what to do to find me...I'm the guy with a 21 ft. Bayliner , a camouflage boonie hat, and blue sunglasses!<br /><br />Have a safe holiday weekend!<br /><br />H.
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