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It's my goal to try new lakes every year so I tried Odessa lake, aka Mud Lake, for the first time yesterday evening. I heard it holds pike (and possibly bass), my fave fish to target, and tried to gather intel on-line and found little info. Even my fishing maps book does not include it, so I decided to post info on this interesting lake.
It is 5.7 km long lake from the inflowing and outflowing river at each end. It's shallow everywhere, averaging 4 ft and the deepest I saw was 9 ft and the bottom is covered with weeds. Patches of sparsely-spaced pencil weeds grow mostly on the north-west side. It's similar to Lake Camden. You can launch your boat at the natural-made boat ramp at Purdy water access off route 38 in Murvale, ideal for 12-14 ft light boats. There is 2.3 km ride through the 27 m wide stream to the first widening and another 2 km in a 350 m-wide river to the main lake. The water here is deep enough (5-8 ft) to zip all the way through without encountering heavy weeds or beaver dams (now anyway, dunno if it will choke up later in the summer).
Fishing was slow, caught only 1 small pike with a spinnerbait in pencil weeds in 5 FOW far in front of a white house, one of the few residences on the lake. It seems to have potential even though I did not have a lot of time to explore but I was happy to have tried it despite the rain - that's what fishing is about!
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The fishin' nut ><>J
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