2012 Lucky Peak Fishing Thread

[sawtooth]

Picked up a limit of six this morning. I had my first four keepers in the first twenty minutes with two quick double hookups. It then took me four hours of wading through a bunch of next years fish before I landed my last keeper. I can't remember a year when I have caught this many of the small two year old fish this early in the year. Most were near the dam, near the surface to 15 feet down. Wind was quite strong for a good part of the morning.

 

[Ken Jones]

Lucky Peak today

Took my boat today to LP. and boated24 kokes one trout. First time out to LP this year. There was 4 of us fishing. Hoochies in Pink, Green, and orange. On downriggers and leaded line. I haven't seen this big of Kokes in years. 16" was the norm.101chromefish101

 

[PeteDin206]

Sounds like the fishing is getting great. It's been about 2 weeks, so I figure there might have been a change in water temp. Hopefully for the better. Anyone seen a recent temp?

Obviously again I'm going to be swimming up there in about 4.5 weeks so I'm hoping we've cracked the 50 mark.

 

[koko71]

It's still 47 degrees on the surface as of last saturday. They are still moving a lot of water out of the upper reservoirs which doesn't help warm the water. However, the forecast calls for temps in the upper 70 to low 80 degree mark by the weekend and snow melt is almost over and water flows should come back to normal soon. I hope this helps

 

[PeteDin206]

It's still 47 degrees on the surface as of last saturday. They are still moving a lot of water out of the upper reservoirs which doesn't help warm the water. However, the forecast calls for temps in the upper 70 to low 80 degree mark by the weekend and snow melt is almost over and water flows should come back to normal soon. I hope this helps

Definitely helpful. While not the number I wanted to hear the higher temps and slowdown in snow melt should definitely help raise the temperature a on the surface.

Hopefully the fishing stays great for you guys over the coming weeks.

 

[jimbojump]

Hit LP for a few hours yesterday...played around by the dam in a rodeo fest of BS and goofball drivers...caught mostly dinks like 6 inches...two nice ones later we kicked it for Spring Shores met up with a buddy...and it was on...got 5 more around 17" and called it good...Also...not sure what everyone else was getting for temps but I was marking 58 at the dam...it was a bit cooler at Spring shores but I believe the swimmers are at the dam right?

 

[Kokanee.Fred]

Lp 5/8/12

Caught a limit yesterday at LP. They were all good size, between 14"-16" (see pic). Lost three as well. All but one were caught between 11-13 feet; one at 27 feet. Used yellow, orange and pink homemade wedding rings with matching dodgers/sling blades. Yellow/Orange combo seemed to work the best. The highest temp reading I saw for the day was 56 degrees, so pretty close to Jimbo's reading. I mainly fished across from Spring Shores.

 

[Ken Jones]

LP

Went with a friend in his boat we boated 9 through back 4 to small to keep. Lost 6. Not too bad of a day. Same stuff as monday when we brought home 4 limits. Hoochies with scented corn, yellow and shoepeg.

 

[salmonster]

Picked up 12 nice big ones Friday and 12 again on Saturday. Having to work for them. About one of every three fish caught is keeper size. Of the 24 total, 10 were 20 inches (I thought) but when I actually measured them, they are just over 17 inches, the rest over 15 inches - really nice fish. Beautiful fillets- getting ready to fire up the smoker. Looking good for next year with all of the little guys we are catching.

Anything pink around 15 ft, we just keep switching out different things until we find something that works.

 

[kodiak1]

Fished Monday for few hours. Basically, same report as Salmonster. Pink, 15 feet, then had to drop to 20 at about 11AM. Pulled out with another boat who did as well as us, but fished surface whole time. If you get into next year's generation, just move. When we did, it was all large fish. First area was all smalls. If you keep losing fish, it is the small guys. The biggies seem to rarely miss! Mike

 

[FiliIslander]

A nice day of catching at LP!!

Decided to give myself the day off today and went to LP with my friend Brazilkokkiller. Put in at spring shores (11:00 A.M.) and didn't go very far (200 yards) till we started trolling. Ran my favorite sling blades and home made hoocies on all 3 rods. Set one down rigger at 19' and second at 23'. Got the first hit within 5 minutes of trolling. It was a nice 16'' fatty. We landed 12 beautiful koks by 2:30 P.M. All were 16" and 2 were 17". I'm looking forward to go again next Tuesday. Good luck everyone.

 

[PeteDin206]

Been a little over a week with some pretty solid temps over there. I'm hoping someone can provide me with some good news on water temperature. Please tell me it has cracked the 50 degree mark.

In the meantime best of luck with the fish...

 

[sawtooth]

Last Saturday near dam it was ranging from 51 to 54 degrees surface temp. Temp was rising when we left the lake around noon. It should be climbing up even more with this warm weather.

 

[PeteDin206]

That is great news... Thanks to everyone who has provided updates it is very appreciated by a bunch of us triathletes who will be competing this year.

 

[kodiak1]

Fished LP today from 8 to 11. Picked up 8, inc. two rainbows. One rb was the smallest fish of the day, and the other, an 18 1/2"er, the largest. Biggest rb I have ever taken out of LP in recent years. All the kokes were the biggies. Depths that worked for us were 15 and 20. Mike

 

[DowntownBrowns]

Fished yesterday from 1 til 4. Hooked 3, 2 little ones and a big one.

 

[JTM]

L.P. Today

Went out today caught 10 in 4.5 hours, Brought home this limit.

 

[Sluggo]

Lucky Peak Report

We fished Lucky Peak today and boated 10 nice Kokes. We lost about the same number and threw back about 8-10 that were too small. What worked best for us were Pink Hoochies with corn. Almost all the fish were caught around 13 feet.

 

[spoons]

Lp 5/20

Hit it for a few hours yesterday. Caught 5 from 2:30 to 4pm @ 15-20ft.
pink/orange and green/yellow yielded about the same fish. White corn, cured corn and... Eric, you left your fire corn on the boat. That worked too.
Damn nice fish!

 

[BigggCountry]

Launched out of Spring Shores at 630am started trolling towards the Arrow Rock dam. Started running 1oz sinkers 70 ft back and 3 colors of leadcore. Pink and clear hoochies with pink slings with the sinkers and orange hoochies with orange slings. As soon as we rounded the 1st bend we started running into the kokes. Largest was a 19". Average size was 15.5" We ended up landing 13. Lost around 10.