2012 Lucky Peak Fishing Thread

[Pzak]

Kodiak1, Not to highjack the thread, but what is launch like at AR now. High water ramp still in?

 

[hooked4life]

Friday at peak was slow for me. two of us caught 3 fish. fished from 8 till 2. I thought I saw your boat physion, it appeared you might have got your limit?

 

[kodiak1]

As quiet as this thread has been lately, who cares about hijacking!! The water was just at the bottom edge on Thursday, and it has been dropping at the rate of 2 1/2 feet a day. The low-water ramp was visible....about 5 feet of it....at that time. I would at least try the Middle Fork arm, from where all the trees are on the north side since there was tons of top-water activity. They seemed to be stacked in there. Good luck if you head up, and give us a report. Mike

 

[Physion]

Yes, I got a limit on Friday. In about an hour an an half. When I got home my wife asked me what was wrong. I don't often see action that is that fast.

 

[bayhorse]

Wow! I am heading up tomorrow am. And I still don't know where we should try.
Sounds like either lake will be ok.
Thanks for the reports.
Will let you know how we do.

 

[Pzak]

Kodiak1, I went up to AR but didn't take the boat. Kids wanted to walk and explore the shoreline. I wanted to check out the launch. The low water launch looks to be in great shape. The normal ramp was out of the water by about 10-15 feet from the concrete to the waters edge. I will give fishing a try next weekend.

 

[sawtooth]

Took a coworker up to LP after work yesturday. Weather was fantastic and only about ten boats on the whole lake. Fished from 5:30 to 8PM. Found the fish around 30 feet down. These are next years spawners so they were around 12-13 inches long. The rookie koke fisherman landed three but had several others to the boat before they came off. He had a hard time grasping the concept of tiring them out before bringing them near the boat. Hyperactive fish with soft mouths are not a good combination.laugh hyst Fortunately he got enough for a meal.

 

[Physion]

I had a good day on LP today. 5 fish between 1:00 and 2:30. They were down in the 35-40 foot range.

 

[Physion]

Fished LP on the 15th with my daughter-in-law and granddaughter. We got 6 kokanee and 2 rainbows. There was no pattern to the depth. We caught fish with no weight, 2 ounces, 3 ounces, and 3.5 ounces. Change a lure or change a weight, catch a fish. And then nothing. Change something again, and catch a fish. Little consistency in either the active depth or the lure they wanted. We saw fish on the surface and the locator claimed some were as deep as 50 or 60 feet. A pretty good day catching, considering, but I was certainly puzzled about what was going on. The water level dropping quickly certainly didn't help.

 

[conservationist]

Fished Monday evening in the narrows from about 4:30 to 6 PM. Caught 3 in the 11-12 range. 2 caught at 30 feet, but saw fishing jumping and caught one on the top as we were letting a rig out. Pink was the only color they wanted. Two of us fishing -- 3 for the pink hoochie, 0 for the green or orange. Using a single 5 inch flasher in pink/silver on both rigs.

 

[Physion]

I fished towards the dam end yesterday. Caught fish using 2 and 3 ounce weights. I also got hookups with a 3.5 ounce weight and with no weight, but didn't land them. Five kokanee that were 12 to 13 inches and one that was 17 inches.

 

[bayhorse]

Thanks for the report!

 

[conservationist]

Fished up near dam on Friday early afternoon. Folks around us catching fish, we had a tough time. Fishing with single flasher at 15 to 30 feet with down riggers. Couldn't get a bite. Quit the downriggers and went with multi-flasher pop gear with wedding ring and caught two nice Rainbows and a Kokanee. Guess they weren't deep!

 

[kok-head]

fished 10/7/12 from 8am - 1pm, started at spring shores and worked our way towards lucky peak dam, all fish caught within 1 mile of spring shores, hooked 10, landed 6, lost 2 good size koks and kept the following fish in photos and released one 12in rainbow, fished 0oz, 1oz, 2oz, and 3oz weights which kept our lures anywhere from 0 to 30ft and got hits at all depths including the largest kok which we lost on the squid we were running on the surface, lots of speed changes, early in the day fish wanted it around 1.3mph-1.7mph and then later on fish were hard to judge, all different speeds from 0.8mph-2mph, after around 11am fish would hit after a big increase or decrease in speed, lost 2 koks that we estimated went over 13in, 2.5in pink hand-tied squids running 8in behind any color/style dodger, ran pink squids all day with decent results, talked to 2 other boats around us that were catching only small rainbows and let them know what was working for us, pass it on that fish are still biting at lucky peak and they are delicious in that 58 degree water

 

[kodiak1]

Nice going kok-head, and also welcome to the site! Was beginning to wonder if anyone was still fishing up there. I'm assuming there is still a dock in at Springs Shore. Again nice looking fish. Mike

 

[kok-head]

Thanks, we were the first boat on that morning at spring shores and we only saw 4 or 5 other fishing boats the whole day, there was not a dock in the water at the ramp, I talked with someone at the Tackle Shack in Meridian, ID and he said with most of the irrigation water turned off down here in the valley the water will be climbing and real soon a dock should be back in the water

I have a feeling that any color/size/style combinations of hoochies and dodgers will work well up there right now so get up there while you can, had we fished a little harder and longer we would have easily come home with 7 or 8 nice size koks

 

[Predator 2]

Tackle Shack

Thanks, we were the first boat on that morning at spring shores and we only saw 4 or 5 other fishing boats the whole day, there was not a dock in the water at the ramp, I talked with someone at the Tackle Shack in Meridian, ID and he said with most of the irrigation water turned off down here in the valley the water will be climbing and real soon a dock should be back in the water

I have a feeling that any color/size/style combinations of hoochies and dodgers will work well up there right now so get up there while you can, had we fished a little harder and longer we would have easily come home with 7 or 8 nice size koks

Heard the rumor Tackle Shack was closing -- hope it is just a rumor and not fact. Would be a great loss to the fishing community.

 

[Petty4life]

Heard the rumor Tackle Shack was closing -- hope it is just a rumor and not fact. Would be a great loss to the fishing community.

I'm pretty good friends with the owner Joe, last i heard he was keeping it open with a couple guys running it while he is working out of town. I sure hope he dont close it it will take away my reason for traveling 5hrs just to go to a tackle store LOL

 

[Petty4life]

Heard the rumor Tackle Shack was closing -- hope it is just a rumor and not fact. Would be a great loss to the fishing community.

Well after readding his post i called Joe, and he comfomfermed that thestore is closed but his website kokaneetackle.com is still running. sounds like they are relocating the store to portland Oregon. where he has been working his regular job for the past few months making the trek back to boise every weekend, you its not rumor its fact.

 

[sawtooth]

Well after readding his post i called Joe, and he comfomfermed that thestore is closed but his website kokaneetackle.com is still running. sounds like they are relocating the store to portland Oregon. where he has been working his regular job for the past few months making the trek back to boise every weekend, you its not rumor its fact.

Sad to hear that the Tackle Shack is closed. They will be missed.