Dittos to all you said Russ.    This lake is just plain FUN to fish.  It has become one of my favorite destinations to fish either for fun or in a "T".  The neat thing is the Kentucky action is virtually year round.  Two years ago during the pre-fish for a tournament down there, I also managed to catch several LM and SM along with the typical three dozen Kentucky Bass.  This was during the cooler month of October.  It was still shirtsleeve weather, and not cold at night.
I have fished both Shasta & Oroville as late as mid November and never worried about how cold it was, but rather if I had enough Spooks and Tango Dancers in my tackle box! 

Smitty

Daryl,
I know that when I was in the Kent club several of the members would fish Lake Couer D Lene for an outing of fun for a week. Clear Lake is to far its 870 miles from my house and Shasta is only 589. I would love to see more people make the opportunity to fish this awsome body of water. Fall is best from what I have heard from several local fisherman. Never stuck a largemouth there the whole week. I caught about 6 smallies, b,ut the rest were ,Spots. They have several good campgrounds or house boats would be the best that way you could spl,it all the costs. We stayed on a ten sleeper and pulled my boat behind it. We saw several people pull two to three bass boats behind there house boat. A 10 sleeper in the fall rents for about $2100/week. Not bad considering hotel costs and the split between all those who go. Summer it rents for $2700/week.
Russ