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Gearing Up and Rigging Up / Re: SharkShield Issues
« Last post by mdoka_matt on Today at 07:24:44 PM »
I sent mine in for warranty exchange a couple years ago.  Service was very slow, but if did eventually arrive.
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General Fishing Tips / Re: non Kayak: Odell Lake fishing
« Last post by FishingAddict on Today at 07:23:08 PM »
Great write up and awesome trip. Thanks for sharing.
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General Talk / Re: Fort Bragg area advice wanted
« Last post by Bulldog---Alex on Today at 06:47:40 PM »
Sure you'll have a great time either way.

I have stayed at the KOA in , Manchester. Great little place.
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General Fishing Tips / Re: non Kayak: Odell Lake fishing
« Last post by Sailfish on Today at 06:40:35 PM »
Thanks for the trip report and pictures bbt95762.
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General Fishing Tips / Re: AI Weather Forecasts/Evaluation
« Last post by Sailfish on Today at 05:07:39 PM »
Maybe the AI main server is in Asia which is a day ahead of us.
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General Talk / Re: Fort Bragg area advice wanted
« Last post by ppickerell on Today at 05:06:06 PM »
big river is an excellent flat water paddle
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General Fishing Tips / AI Weather Forecasts/Evaluation
« Last post by SpeedyStein on Today at 04:43:16 PM »
I played around with Google Gemini today, and it seems pretty capable of pulling weather forecasts from various places at once, and then evaluating based on criteria I provide.  Could be helpful tool to help figure out where weather is best for fishing on any given day.  Took a little back and forth to refine my ask and the results I wanted.  Biggest concern I found was that it consistently got the date wrong - it tried telling me multiple times that today was the 31st of May, and that tomorrow is Friday June 01.  I corrected it, and still it persisted, haha.  Results were drawn from NWS, and seemed to align with information in the forecast on NWS site, no issues there.   

Anyone else using AI for this yet?
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Wanted To Buy / Re: Kayak Hoist
« Last post by jkjhung on Today at 04:38:38 PM »
I have one listed in the classifieds. Harken Hoister rated up to 200lb. $150 obo
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General Fishing Tips / non Kayak: Odell Lake fishing
« Last post by bbt95762 on Today at 04:34:32 PM »
Tldr; pretty lake, caught a mac and 7 kokes

Our friends have a piece of property in Fort Klamath Oregon, sits right on a nice spring fed creek.  Two sheds on the property that serve as cabins, off grid, poor cell phone service…very peaceful.  We love going there.  Typically we will fly fish some of the local streams and rivers, but on this trip, his wife had arranged a guide trip on Odell Lake.  The reservation was for the morning trip (typically the calm part of the day), we woke at 2, on the road at 3, at the lake about 4:45am for the 5am launch.  We meet the guide, Bob, in the resort.  When we left Fort Klamath…it was calm, cold, etc.  As we started to climb a little higher, we got some wind, some rain, some snow.  When we looked at the lake, there were white caps everywhere.  The guide point blank told us, he wouldn't suggest going out in this weather…he'd take us…but wouldn't suggest it.  He offered us a Monday morning trip in place.

Monday was a completely different day, he had the full day, so we woke and arrived later - for a 7am launch.  Blue sky, no breeze, lovely morning.  We being going after the kokes.  He's got all the gear setup on the boat, and his Shoepoeg Corn with bloody tuna sauce - we're ready.  We get the lines in the water, two on each side, and my deeper line hits in about 15 minutes, nice 12" koke - pretty thick, pretty fish.  Then boom, again, and again…by now, the birthday boy is looking pretty depressed, so, when my side gets hit the 4th time, I say 'Dean, you get it'…'NO' he replies… I sense a proper funk is brewing.  I land #4 and #5…then would be #6 tangles my lines.  So the guide takes my setup, and moves it to Deans side - now he's got all my gear, and I have new gear.  Then both our lines hit, and we end up with 10 kokanee ( the limit is 25…more on that later, and one lake trout).  The guide asks us if we'd like to start fishing four Lake Trout, as the conditions are about right - and we agree.  Just as we're about the change out the gear, Dean's rod hits…and it's a big fish, the guide yells 'Laker' and we hall up all the gear and downriggers to avoid a tangle.  Dean fights the fish for about 15 minutes and gets it up to and in the boat, wow, a monster lake trout, 9# - nice looking fish.  He bleeds it in the live well.  We properly store the koke gear, and get setup with the Mackinaw gear, one rod on each side of the boat, down to about 160', 5 minutes later 'bam' we get a nice take down.  I start reeling it in, feels smaller to me - htough I later remembered that Dean was fishing lighter weight Koke gear for his fish, and I was using heavier duty Mac gear. After about 15' I get color - oh my, another good sized fish, this fish weighed in at 13#...and that's a limit folks.  Wait, what? Only one Mack?  We go for a quick tour of the lake, the guide chats up a few buddies - sure enough, today was a tough day for fishing both the kokes and the Macks, we didn't see many nets going.

After the guide cleaned the fish, I put some salt and brown sugar on some of the filets so we could smoke them when we got back to the cabins.  I texted Elena when to start the fire in the smoker at 2:50p so it would be ready when we got back.  The filets from the 9# fish were much nicer in color - more of that salmon look, and the guide recommended we save those for cooking in the pan vs. the smoker.  We had some of the smoke kokanee that night and also some of the smoke Mack, very nice.

https://www.odelllakeresort.com/fishing/guided-fishing/
Our guide was Bob.

So, with a limit of 25 kokes each, turns out that camping on this lake for a week, and bringing your pressure canner is a really big thing…that's what most of the boats are doing.  The catch Kokanee all day, then can them at night, and repeat.

I'm really curious to try canned Kokanee?  The flesh is so soft, I'd think maybe it would not can well…but so many people were doing it, it must be good.  I think I'll can a sample after my next koke run - just to see what its' like.
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Wanted To Buy / Re: Kayak Hoist
« Last post by bbt95762 on Today at 04:23:38 PM »
after dealing with various home built and built for sale hoists - my favorite is my electric hoist I got from amazon (though similar from Harbor Freight).  If I didn't use that, i'd use the game hoists, one for front and one for back.

then I always put 2 safety ropes under the hull - just to catch the weight if something fails.
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