i was able to take my granddaughter with me to strawberry for ice off fishing , weather was cold and wet with water temp right at 40 deg. f. , we fished for the first 3 hrs in on soldier creek side fished 5 to 25 feet fro the most part and picked up several small cutts, no kokes . changed...
the grand kids and myself made it up to jodanelle , got on the lake at 9am and left at 1pm , we put 3 good kokes in the boat lost 2 at the net ,slow day but alright for a late start , 10 to 20 feet down was where all our action came from .
i had one okumakoke rods ,it was a ok rod but unfortunately it broke imeditly after i got it i returned it and paid 10 more buck and got another velocity blue rod , which in my opinion is the best koke rod out there .
fishing that deep i am surprised you caught many kokes that deep. i was there yesterday and got about 12 kokes at 35 feet and probably a dozen cutts ,nonewith any size. i keep trying deeper for kokes but no luck that deep.
i was there for the du event and lake trout bite was terrible and lakers under sized , the kokes are a bit smaller also .i think the cold water is the issue , kokes need plankton to grow and plankton needs the sun and warmer temps to gt going . i will tell you the kokanee bite is really good...
yes i am glad you mentioned all the crap in the water in the narrow and at s/c .i was dodging stuff like crazy and still picked up a branch on my out drive . i also snagged a 20 foot pine tree that was floating around .
fish solider creek for numbers strawberry for larger fish ,but things are not normal up there at all this year due to the weather , we boated 5 nice kokes today on strawberry
i fished the strawberry side today an boated 5 nice kokes with one pushing 3lbs , and missed a bigger one at the net . so things are picking up but the weather has really raised hell with any kind of fishing pattern
99 percent of the face book junk is not useful to an experienced fisherman i'l stay here and on BFT a little good info is much better than a ton of that crap .