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Took the grandkids this afternoon about 1:30. Late start. 4 koks in the boat, 6 lost. Blame the kids!!
Pink & green Little Devil's and green Apexs.
 
Spent about five hours on the water yesterday. Boated 4 koks and 1 trout, all pretty good size over 12in, which was surprising. Didn't see a lot of big groupings and most were shallow - 15ft. Caught everything on the green System 3 from Fishing With Gary and it's matching lures. Friend of mine introduced me to Gary's stuff and I'm a believer now.
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We fished the dam area two afternoons last week. We caught a few but it was pretty spotty and we had wind both days.
 
Fished across from marina downstream maybe a mile and back today .... from about 11 to 4 pm. Boated two Kokes, one 12 and another 13 inches. Oh, and one that might of gone 8 inches. Lost a couple of decent ones. Also boated two 12"+ rainbows. Fishing around 10 feet with down riggers ... 8 inch dodger with primarily red wedding ring. Caught one on a "green" rig but didn't get it to boat. Beautiful day on the lake. Folks were catching one now and then. Can't say it was red hot ... but any day fishing beats a day working.
 
Hi all. I am new to this forum. I went out for the second time this year on 4/05. My wife talked me into it. I did not believe there was any fish in Lucky Peak based on my last two years of trying. I must say, you all know what you're doing. After taking all the advice on the forum we landed 4 Kokes 14"-15" and lost 4 more! Those are the first ever for us! We did catch 2 small ones that are back in the lake growing.
We fished from Birch Creek (what we always called the narrows) to the Marina and back most of the afternoon. Picked fish up in all areas. We were using the old Ford Fenders with pink or red wedding rings tipped with corn. I tried smaller flashers but did not have the same success. Hopefully we'll be back on the water this Saturday.
Thanks to all. Looking forward to sharing fishing stories. Hopefully even meet some of you at the lake. We are the teal 20' Weldcraft jet.
 
First, welcome to the site. Secondly, thanks for a complete report! Third, congrats on a successful outing, especially for this time of year. Ford Fenders certainly work well, Lord knows I have enough of them, but I have found that a very similar brand of pop gear seems to have far less drag, and that's the Jack Lloyd 2 blade flashers. I buy mine at Turner's on State Street in Boise. For years I wondered why everybody called pop gear "jacklloyds" until John at Turners told me it was a brand, and how great they work. With kokes, less drag equals more fish aboard. He was right! Again, congrats, and I'll keep an eye out for you in the narrows! Mike
 
Fished this afternoon got there around 1 met a guy on the ramp had not boated a fish all day, of course we thought that can't happen to us much to our surprise it did. Not a trout, a Kokanee nothing. Windy, water temp around 53. Road was good lots of people heading up though
 
jhmh2ofowl said:
Hi all. I am new to this forum. I went out for the second time this year on 4/05. My wife talked me into it. I did not believe there was any fish in Lucky Peak based on my last two years of trying. I must say, you all know what you're doing. After taking all the advice on the forum we landed 4 Kokes 14"-15" and lost 4 more! Those are the first ever for us! We did catch 2 small ones that are back in the lake growing.
We fished from Birch Creek (what we always called the narrows) to the Marina and back most of the afternoon. Picked fish up in all areas. We were using the old Ford Fenders with pink or red wedding rings tipped with corn. I tried smaller flashers but did not have the same success. Hopefully we'll be back on the water this Saturday.
Thanks to all. Looking forward to sharing fishing stories. Hopefully even meet some of you at the lake. We are the teal 20' Weldcraft jet.
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Welcome to kokanee fishing!
Good on you for throwing back the next year fish!
 
Hi All.

I fished wednesday at Arrow Rock in the morning, water was 53, caught 2 trout, and was blown off the spot we wanted to fish.

Moved down to LP where the weather was much nicer, water was 47 and we caught 2 trout and 5 Kokes.

I took some friends to LP this morning to try to catch some trout from the bank, and what do you know, my friend Chelsey pulled a FAT Koke on half of a nightcrawler at dawn. It was quite the surprise, and it got me thinking, do any of yall fish from the bank for Kokanee? Or do any of yall drift from a boat with bait?
 
centurion said:
Hi All.

I fished wednesday at Arrow Rock in the morning, water was 53, caught 2 trout, and was blown off the spot we wanted to fish.

Moved down to LP where the weather was much nicer, water was 47 and we caught 2 trout and 5 Kokes.

I took some friends to LP this morning to try to catch some trout from the bank, and what do you know, my friend Chelsey pulled a FAT Koke on half of a nightcrawler at dawn. It was quite the surprise, and it got me thinking, do any of yall fish from the bank for Kokanee? Or do any of yall drift from a boat with bait?
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I've talked to some folks that bank fish for kokanee, when the kokanee start getting ready to spawn I've seen people catch quite a few bank fish, not sure how good eating the red spawners are but they are catchable
 
kodiak1 said:
I asked Fins and Feathers, the fishing store and guide service in Coeur d'Alene this past year, and he told me they would be munching on them this summer, and show fast growth. I look forward to fishing for them. The methods used at CdA should be a good starting point. Go to their web site, and click on "Chinook" for a good primer. Mike
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When do they figure these planters will be of catchable size Mike?

Looking back in years past I see the last stocking of Chinook into Anderson took place in 1989 when F&G planted 10,000 fingerling (3"-6"). The first time we fished Anderson for Chinook was the early 90's and the few fish we caught were in the 4-6 pound range trolling orange Rapala's on the surface in the early spring.

I'll be looking forward to catching some of these 35,316 fingerling Chinook they planted in 2013 in the years to come!
 
I'm not sure. Tried to find something on the internet, but no luck. I'm guessing maybe 20" by this summer, just don't know. One thing....as soon as they start munching on those tasty little stunted kokes, there's gotta be a major growth spurt. I will probably get serious about it next summer. P.S.: the Sekiu reports just keep getting more positive. Biggest run since the 50's predicted. Won't be the same without you. Mike
 
I looked up the stocking reports for Anderson and see on 04/29/2010 they stocked 150,183 fingerling (3"-6") early spawner kokanee and on 05/05/2011 they stocked 183,200 fry (0-3") early spawner kokanee fry.

Why is F&G stocking all these kokanee when the reservoir is already over populated. This makes no sense at all. The fish this year will be even smaller then last year according to fish biologist Scott Stanton.

I can only hope they continue to plant Chinook in Anderson so that maybe someday we have a fishery worthy of spending the $$$ for fuel to go fish it.
 
kodiak1 said:
P.S.: the Sekiu reports just keep getting more positive. Biggest run since the 50's predicted. Won't be the same without you. Mike
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Plenty of time between now and August & if I could find a partner that didn't flake out on me I just might show up.
 
The family and I went out to Lucky Peak this morning. Very windy and choppy.
I've heard that the rough water sometimes effects the fishing. Is this true?
I can tell you we didn't boat anything this trip, but still a great day!
 
jhmh2ofowl said:
The family and I went out to Lucky Peak this morning. Very windy and choppy.
I've heard that the rough water sometimes effects the fishing. Is this true?
I can tell you we didn't boat anything this trip, but still a great day!
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A little bit of wind seems to help but yesterday made me stay home. My boat (a jet) doesn't have a lot of keel so even with the TR1 G it won't hold a course and I think that much wind gives the fish lock jaw anyhow. But that's
 
jhmh2ofowl said:
The family and I went out to Lucky Peak this morning. Very windy and choppy.
I've heard that the rough water sometimes effects the fishing. Is this true?
I can tell you we didn't boat anything this trip, but still a great day!
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A little bit of wind seems to help but yesterday made me stay home. My boat (a jet) doesn't have a lot of keel so even with the TR1 G it won't hold a course and I think that much wind gives the fish lock jaw anyhow. But that's just my opinion.
 
Did well yesterday despite the wind which abused me and my little boat...Finally calmed down about 1ish. Wound up with 19, lost half a dozen or so. Caught most at 30 feet on the DR in Merry's Bay. Tried the chartreuse gulp maggots for the first time yesterday too...not sure if that helped but just about all the fish were caught on those. New fishfinder arriving today, so look out!
 

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