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I caught a large koke last week hat was turning. he wasn't that far along yet, would still be good table fare
 
fish4kok said:
That's nice big boat with a lot of room for the family eh? Congratulation.
Fished LP today from 9:30 ~ 2:30PM, it was slow. boated 3 kok 12" ~ 14" and released a 14" rainbow trout. All the fish I caught with DR at 12' with Forfender + WR and shoepeg corn + scent.
The single mallard sometime follow my boat too. I gave her some old bread then she's happy. I had a picture that she took food from my wife hand. :) Last year I filmed a mallard that land on my boat platform for a short drive, then when the distance between her and the male duck (on the lake) greater then she jumped off and swim toward the male. Didn't see any duckling this year yet.
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yes sir. I have 4 kids, wife, dog, and usually my dad tags along. That's a bit cramped for a 15 foot bass boat. But, its just as cramped on the new one. 15 feet of cabin, but all the kids think they need to be on the 7 foot deck.......Less room than before, lol.

We went Friday for 2 hours, and got into them a bit. Landed 4 and lost 4. They seem to be turning pink just a bit. A little color on the tail, and tips of the fins. Wont be long before the bite is off, so get em while u can
 
Anderson

Fishing is changing quick. About every week we go up we got to go another 10' deeper. still catching 10-20 fish a trip but now we have to go 60' to 75' deep. I bet even 80' wood catch fish. Long line caught several 10"-12" fish 2oz 60' back dodger and spinner pink and orange. Early in the day 65' on down rigger, later in the day downrigger 60' in water 80' deep, and 75' in 100' deep areas used darker dodger and darker spinner. Caught my first fish of the year with red starting to show. Large rang of sizes 20" was the longest average was 17". Thanks for those sharing. I hope this helps someone. Sonar has been key for me.
 
Fished Sunday. What a zoo. With all the wake boats and jet skis, it was like being on the ocean.. Caught three early morning on green. Then it died. Around 2pm I switched to an apex and caught 4.
 
Fished the last hour of daylight last night. Landed two 15 inchers longlining on top with pop gear, white corn, krill oil, no weight. Got another 18 inch 20 ft down, pink hoochie behind dodger with corn and anise.
 
What's happening now

I'm getting conflicting reports on the depth of the fish now. Some are telling me shallow 10 to 25 feet and others are saying down to 60 feet. Anybody have any first hand knowledge? Going up tomorrow I hope.
Thanks
 
fire closing lp???

I am in the process of getting ready to head up to lucky peak, and I was told highway 21 is closed. is there still access to spring shores??
 
terek said:
I am in the process of getting ready to head up to lucky peak, and I was told highway 21 is closed. is there still access to spring shores??
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I just hered on KBOI at 4:45 that hwy 21 is closed from Lucky Peak Rd to Robbi Creek in both directions .
 
Nice pic! Looks like Alaska? I've caught thousands of kings but never a pink one. I know on the kenai an other rivers in Alaska they go pink during the run.


skyhammer said:
I have caught 100's of Kings in rivers and lakes and lakes and they turn the same color as Kokanee and Silvers, except the heads don't turn green like the Kokanee.

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terek said:
I am in the process of getting ready to head up to lucky peak, and I was told highway 21 is closed. is there still access to spring shores??
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Just head home from LP. If you launch your boat at Turner Gulch that will be OK. I saw few trucks towing boat turned in there, but that was about an hour ago. They blocked HW21 few hundred feet above the turn off to the dam.
Any way got 6 fat kok, one measured 17.5" the other from 12 -14" DR 7 ~ 18' deep.

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Highway 21 fire

July 20, headed up to put in at Spring Shores and fish the far side. Road is reopened, will let you know about air, how it goes later today.
 
tracker said:
Fishing is changing quick. About every week we go up we got to go another 10' deeper. still catching 10-20 fish a trip but now we have to go 60' to 75' deep. I bet even 80' wood catch fish. Long line caught several 10"-12" fish 2oz 60' back dodger and spinner pink and orange. Early in the day 65' on down rigger, later in the day downrigger 60' in water 80' deep, and 75' in 100' deep areas used darker dodger and darker spinner. Caught my first fish of the year with red starting to show. Large rang of sizes 20" was the longest average was 17". Thanks for those sharing. I hope this helps someone. Sonar has been key for me.
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Thanks for the information. I'll head up to Anderson tomorrow for just a day fishing. This'll be our Anderson first fishing trip in this year.
Today, I made an other adapter base for the electric Walker DR that will fit in the exiting Canon mount. Now I'm running electric wire,receptacle box and I'll see the smile on her face.
Last year we caught kok at 75' with manual Canon DR, after my wife cranked up 8lbs lead ball few times... and later that was my job to crank it up after she got a fish.:) That will be OK as long as she goes fishing, clean and cook, caned the fish then I'll not complaining...
 
Trolling for Kokanee from My Kayak

I'm going to be launching at Spring Shores on Thursday - 7/21 - from my Kayak and trolling in the area. 2nd time EVER, fishing for Kokanee :) 1st time was earlier this year in February. Had some hits but no hook-ups :-( Hopefully that will change tomorrow. It is supposed to be a hot day! Starting early in the morning. Do Kokanee feed like trout? Come up to surface during dusk and dawn? Or do they just stay suspended at certain depths all day long, depending on weather? Just wondering.... TIA and Tight Lines!
 
Went to Anderson Ranch yesterday, fished from 6:30 am to 1:00 pm. Fished from 30 ft to 80 ft, used every color and combination in my box, at various speeds, twisting and turning, NEVER got one bite or one fish, good luck.
 
If water isn't too warm they will come to the top or closer to the surface early in the morning. With the warm weather we have had and all the boats, I would start at least ten feet down and continue dropping until you start getting bit. Last week I limited with only one at ten and the rest between 25-35 ft. Good luck.
 
sawtooth said:
If water isn't too warm they will come to the top or closer to the surface early in the morning. With the warm weather we have had and all the boats, I would start at least ten feet down and continue dropping until you start getting bit. Last week I limited with only one at ten and the rest between 25-35 ft. Good luck.
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Thanks for the info SAWTOOTH. My Girlfriend and I were out on our kayaks today at Spring Shores and tried a few lures up top and tried going deeper with no luck at all. So I decided to try for some smallies along the lava rocks that were going into the water. I caught quite a few small ones!!! We were heading back to the marina and tried deeper for more Kokanees and I had a fish hit my Kokanee Rig. It felt like a nice one!!! After a decent fight I ended up bringing in a 20" Pikeminnow UGH! LOL! Oh well. Next time!

Here's my 20" Fish ;-)
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Here is the size of smallies I was catching:
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Elefantdude said:
Thanks for the info SAWTOOTH. My Girlfriend and I were out on our kayaks today at Spring Shores and tried a few lures up top and tried going deeper with no luck at all. So I decided to try for some smallies along the lava rocks that were going into the water. I caught quite a few small ones!!! We were heading back to the marina and tried deeper for more Kokanees and I had a fish hit my Kokanee Rig. It felt like a nice one!!! After a decent fight I ended up bringing in a 20" Pikeminnow UGH! LOL! Oh well. Next time!

Here's my 20" Fish ;-)
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Here is the size of smallies I was catching:
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That was a cute little pike minnow (Squawfish). Two years ago at Anderson Ranch, when the kokes were down around 70', I was trolling deep and hooked into what I thought was a Chinook. It was a 6lb pike minnow (weighed it with my cabelas electronic scale). I kept it till I got back to shore and checked the record and found the record was 7.8lb. Cheated again..... in 2003 I caught a 2.78lb crappie at brownlee. That was a few months after that kid caught the 3.5lb crappie. Mine was 17 and 1/2 inches, but it was skinny. Had it been a fatty, I could have had a record.. Close, but no cigar...
 
crappieslayer said:
That was a cute little pike minnow (Squawfish). Two years ago at Anderson Ranch, when the kokes were down around 70', I was trolling deep and hooked into what I thought was a Chinook. It was a 6lb pike minnow (weighed it with my cabelas electronic scale). I kept it till I got back to shore and checked the record and found the record was 7.8lb. Cheated again..... in 2003 I caught a 2.78lb crappie at brownlee. That was a few months after that kid caught the 3.5lb crappie. Mine was 17 and 1/2 inches, but it was skinny. Had it been a fatty, I could have had a record.. Close, but no cigar...
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Nice Crappieslayer! We moved here this past August (2015) from Arizona. Love the fishing up here. Been to CJ Strike, Swan Falls, Lake Lowell, Farewell Bend, OR, Sagehen Res, Horsethief Res, and fly fished the Upper, Middle and Lower Boise, Upper, Middle and Lower forks of the Payette Boise River Downtown and Owyhee River. Been trying new waters, but haven't been up to the northern part of the Snake (Hells Canyon, Brownlee, Dvorak (sp?) but plan to try them soon. Haven't been skunked yet!
Though I would like to hook into some Kokanee soon! LOL! Do they bite pretty good in the fall?
 

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