Skipjack24
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If you catch a fall run there really fat. This was march, got another didn't way but was 32in probably 11 pounds.
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salmonster
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Chinook photo
Can't really see inside the mouth but I'm almost certain that is a chinook. The large Bull trout we catch while fishing for spring chinook have unnaturally large bug eyes and bright pink spots. In the high mountain lakes and streams they can be almost dark green in color. Look inside its mouth, if there is black - it is a chinook.
scaletamer
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Moon Phase?
What's up fellow addicts! So...I have lived here for 3 years and all you a-holes got me in trouble with my wife and close to applying for a second mortgage! You owe me this!!!!! You guys think it's moon phase, fires or d@&k head pleasure boats jacking up my fix!? It's never been this slow! I've avoided Anderson and Arrowrock but have limited at LP this year until last weekend!
What's up fellow addicts! So...I have lived here for 3 years and all you a-holes got me in trouble with my wife and close to applying for a second mortgage! You owe me this!!!!! You guys think it's moon phase, fires or d@&k head pleasure boats jacking up my fix!? It's never been this slow! I've avoided Anderson and Arrowrock but have limited at LP this year until last weekend!
The best thing you can do right now is tow your boat to deadwood as fast as you can possibly drive. By the time you get up there and back, your boat and trailer should be in pretty bad shape because of the roads. By the time you get it all out back together it will be next season and the fishing may be better.
In this scenario your wife should still be mad at you and your 2nd mortgage will still be needed for the repairs. So nothing lost.
Or you can just start picking off jet skiers one at a time... Good luck, I hope fishing picks back up for you.
nepetbutler
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F-Bomb
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what the what?
Report from Tues:
bright sunny slight breeze early to dead calm to a steady almost white cap NE wind by the end of the day very light recreational traffic until about 3pm
....arrived on site at the spring shores 8am ish...about 50 boats from main pool to the white pipe. We started with pink hoochie/silver smile blade behind the macks paper flasher at 21ft which was the magic recipe on Sat and my standard LP go to fish catching setup the orange wr winner behind a paper flasher at 9ft 1.85 to 2.07mph gps. Orange had bite after bite after bite but they wouldn't actually take it and get hooked up. We caught a 14 on the pink right in the middle of the armada and so I switched both to that setup and we only caught one more fish in an hour. Switched back to the one and one and the orange setup proceeded to get over 50 hits and catch 20 plus while pink at 20 was nothing but a spectator that required a corn rebait every 10 minutes with no fish! We lost at least 5 fish at the boat and another 5 that you got to feel wiggle and then come right off. By midday we put both on orange at 9ft and one pole got 4 to 1 fish but the second setup did get some action.
We found a few decent 3 year fish but the majority were the 14" version but they are footballing up slightly over the last couple of weeks. All still nice and chrome and the meat is excellent. One big male 3 year fish is just getting his fighting face going. I normally release all of the non-3 year fish that aren't bloody and since we are top watering with no great pressure change on the fish they usually do fine on release but I had an uncle along that doesn't get to fish much and he loves the salmon so this day was about gathering meat.
So I don't know what all of the talk about slow fishing at LP? I've took a five year hiatus from koke fishing LP but I never remember having as much action and as steady throughout the day as we have had this year. This is all just a lot like big game hunting. You don't hunt where you don't see sign. Kokes have signs too! Notice the birds? There are a bunch of osprey at LP and they are nailing the kokes all day. You are seeing very little major fish clusters at 20 to 40ft. The graph shows massive plankton salad mostly in the top 20ft of water and very rarely deeper. All of those clues are saying the fish are dispersed and they are on top. You have to move around and you have to offer the color and flash that they want.
I also experimented with some pink fire corn home made stuff and it did get some action. My instincts for getting fish always takes over and I go right back to my known and confident bait and that is corn with a tuna oil soak. I"m always concerned that I'll brew up a batch of fish repellent by accident!
Report from Tues:
bright sunny slight breeze early to dead calm to a steady almost white cap NE wind by the end of the day very light recreational traffic until about 3pm
....arrived on site at the spring shores 8am ish...about 50 boats from main pool to the white pipe. We started with pink hoochie/silver smile blade behind the macks paper flasher at 21ft which was the magic recipe on Sat and my standard LP go to fish catching setup the orange wr winner behind a paper flasher at 9ft 1.85 to 2.07mph gps. Orange had bite after bite after bite but they wouldn't actually take it and get hooked up. We caught a 14 on the pink right in the middle of the armada and so I switched both to that setup and we only caught one more fish in an hour. Switched back to the one and one and the orange setup proceeded to get over 50 hits and catch 20 plus while pink at 20 was nothing but a spectator that required a corn rebait every 10 minutes with no fish! We lost at least 5 fish at the boat and another 5 that you got to feel wiggle and then come right off. By midday we put both on orange at 9ft and one pole got 4 to 1 fish but the second setup did get some action.
We found a few decent 3 year fish but the majority were the 14" version but they are footballing up slightly over the last couple of weeks. All still nice and chrome and the meat is excellent. One big male 3 year fish is just getting his fighting face going. I normally release all of the non-3 year fish that aren't bloody and since we are top watering with no great pressure change on the fish they usually do fine on release but I had an uncle along that doesn't get to fish much and he loves the salmon so this day was about gathering meat.
So I don't know what all of the talk about slow fishing at LP? I've took a five year hiatus from koke fishing LP but I never remember having as much action and as steady throughout the day as we have had this year. This is all just a lot like big game hunting. You don't hunt where you don't see sign. Kokes have signs too! Notice the birds? There are a bunch of osprey at LP and they are nailing the kokes all day. You are seeing very little major fish clusters at 20 to 40ft. The graph shows massive plankton salad mostly in the top 20ft of water and very rarely deeper. All of those clues are saying the fish are dispersed and they are on top. You have to move around and you have to offer the color and flash that they want.
I also experimented with some pink fire corn home made stuff and it did get some action. My instincts for getting fish always takes over and I go right back to my known and confident bait and that is corn with a tuna oil soak. I"m always concerned that I'll brew up a batch of fish repellent by accident!
salmonster
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And I was trying not to be a dick. Between the entitled whiners who complain about not getting enough secrets to this stuff.This site has deteriorated to point where I will just stop.
Skipjack24
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Thanks Scottc, nice to hear a report instead of all these experts trying to decide what kind of fish someone caught, I also thought this site was designed for fishing reports, maybe some people should find another place to impress someone. sorry just ventting, hate to see a good site go awry
Smoke Fishermen
Fished LP today from 9:30AM ~ 1:00PM. Woa! Smoke from Pioneer's fire was so thick on the reservoir. Fishing was slow too, saw many boats in the Sam Creek area but didn't see anyone net fish. I smelled smoked bacon and stop by to say hi to nepetbutler. He's happy with the new AC on his boat. How long the cool air will last Mr. Nepetbutler? Lake water temp was 67 deg. and that was my cool off source.
Fishing was slow, I caught 2 kok, 1-17" already changed color 1-14" and a new planted Chinook. 17" kok was on the long line pole 40' line with 5/8 oz weight red/silver flasher + red WR. Other two was with DR @ 20' deep +dodger + pink squid.
Thanks F-Bomb for the good info. at LP. Next time, hopefully I will do better.
Fished LP today from 9:30AM ~ 1:00PM. Woa! Smoke from Pioneer's fire was so thick on the reservoir. Fishing was slow too, saw many boats in the Sam Creek area but didn't see anyone net fish. I smelled smoked bacon and stop by to say hi to nepetbutler. He's happy with the new AC on his boat. How long the cool air will last Mr. Nepetbutler? Lake water temp was 67 deg. and that was my cool off source.
Fishing was slow, I caught 2 kok, 1-17" already changed color 1-14" and a new planted Chinook. 17" kok was on the long line pole 40' line with 5/8 oz weight red/silver flasher + red WR. Other two was with DR @ 20' deep +dodger + pink squid.
Thanks F-Bomb for the good info. at LP. Next time, hopefully I will do better.
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Thanks scottc for the info. Plan to go AR tomorrow and Fri but will stay home instead. Next week I might go up to Cascade reservoir to catch some perch.
scaletamer
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This year has been great to me as well but I took the wife out Friday and Sunday to "involve" her in my spending and couldn't get a single strike! Apex-micros in every color combination along with 3 baits, every blade I have and nothing both days! Was smacking them in the face from 17'-25' and nothing! We did see a bald eagle squeezing meat and my son thought it was the coolest thing ever! Going back out on Sat so hopefully it's back on! Thx for the solid info!
P.S. you will have to let me in on the Kokanee Anonymous meeting you went to in order to take a 5 yr hiatus! Peace
F-Bomb
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It's easy to quit. Sell all of your stuff and move a long long way off. I really don't think people appreciate how incredible it is to have a fishery like Lucky Peak so close and easily accessible to a huge population. Does anybody on this forum know enough about kokanee to know if the great big ones are really old planters? I was under the impression that the big fish were a 3 year cycle spawning critter but I was watching a video and the guy said that the washington department of fish were putting in sterile planters and the big ones were simply older and don't spawn and die. I'm seeing our big fish turning red so I wonder if that is a different breed and system. Maybe we have a combo at LP. The other explanation of size was related to the food source availability of shrimp and plankton variety and quality.
I also forgot to mention that one of my keys to guessing that the masses are on top is that when I tour around the lake and don't see nearly as many fish as normal. You only see a tiny field of range under 15ft with down sonar so when there isn't any fish where you know that there should be it tells you that they are on the top 15ft. If you have ever had the opportunity to be above a boat going over shallow fish you will see the fish part and then work back to their original position as the boat passes over. If you fish top water troll for kokes you need to put your presentation quite a bit further back of your DR ball in order to get it through the mass of fish as they settle back to their spot. When I was a prototype tester for Botttom Line way way back in the day I got to play with the side sonar stuff and you could see it and that confirms the earlier comments.
I also forgot to mention that one of my keys to guessing that the masses are on top is that when I tour around the lake and don't see nearly as many fish as normal. You only see a tiny field of range under 15ft with down sonar so when there isn't any fish where you know that there should be it tells you that they are on the top 15ft. If you have ever had the opportunity to be above a boat going over shallow fish you will see the fish part and then work back to their original position as the boat passes over. If you fish top water troll for kokes you need to put your presentation quite a bit further back of your DR ball in order to get it through the mass of fish as they settle back to their spot. When I was a prototype tester for Botttom Line way way back in the day I got to play with the side sonar stuff and you could see it and that confirms the earlier comments.
nepetbutler
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A/c kept me cool for 4 hrs using ice packs. Used 2 amps on battery. Gonna try big blocks of ice on Tue. Nailed 3 koke at 1 pm down 20'. Will try more shallow like jktoons
nepetbutler
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Found my sidefinder.gonna use to spot Kokes in top 15' water. Thanks fbomb
kokaneekevin
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Fished LP today (6am to 12:30pm) with my buddy in his boat. If you saw the camo-submarine-looking boat out there today, that was us. 
Very smokey. Wasn't too bad in the early morning, but got worse as the day progressed. However, we were lucky enough to each catch our Kokanee limits today. No downriggers, so we were long-lining with lead weights. Using Ford Fenders, started with 1 to 2 oz lead, then switched to 3 and 4 oz. Most of the fish were caught on 3 oz. Had a slow start (only 1 in the boat in the first hour) with only a few bites. Taking some of the advice from F-Bomb from 7/22 (and thank you F-Bomb for sharing as we're never too old to learn new tricks or confirm old ones), I had brought some tuna/blue herring-soaked corn. We switched to that (using regular corn to start) and the bite immediately picked up. Got several more fish in the boat. Then it slowed down again. Switched from red and orange wedding ring-type lures to green lure and again the bite immediately picked up. Got to 8 fish in the boat by noon. Then we hit a spot directly across from the marina and landed 4 more in 20 minutes. Yahoo! And although there were not a ton of boats out there, I must say, we never saw anyone else going for a net while we were out there. Could have been due to how thick the smoke was. Hope others were catching too. Anyway, great day!
Kokaneekevin
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Very smokey. Wasn't too bad in the early morning, but got worse as the day progressed. However, we were lucky enough to each catch our Kokanee limits today. No downriggers, so we were long-lining with lead weights. Using Ford Fenders, started with 1 to 2 oz lead, then switched to 3 and 4 oz. Most of the fish were caught on 3 oz. Had a slow start (only 1 in the boat in the first hour) with only a few bites. Taking some of the advice from F-Bomb from 7/22 (and thank you F-Bomb for sharing as we're never too old to learn new tricks or confirm old ones), I had brought some tuna/blue herring-soaked corn. We switched to that (using regular corn to start) and the bite immediately picked up. Got several more fish in the boat. Then it slowed down again. Switched from red and orange wedding ring-type lures to green lure and again the bite immediately picked up. Got to 8 fish in the boat by noon. Then we hit a spot directly across from the marina and landed 4 more in 20 minutes. Yahoo! And although there were not a ton of boats out there, I must say, we never saw anyone else going for a net while we were out there. Could have been due to how thick the smoke was. Hope others were catching too. Anyway, great day!
Kokaneekevin
16' Tracker (beige w/ green stripes), 75hp, 4-str Merc
bayhorse
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Nice report, thanks to all for great info.
Green has been my afternoon " go to" in the past. Thanks for the confirmation.
Nice pic. And good fishing!
Green has been my afternoon " go to" in the past. Thanks for the confirmation.
Nice pic. And good fishing!
