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MackayGuy
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I was wondering that myself. I've been trying to shorten all my leaders this year to get more action....especially with hoochies.
Watching that video reminded me of something that happened to me a week or so ago, never had it happen before with a kokanee. I got a good hit and started bringing it in. Then it felt like I lost it and didn't have it on, so I just started reeling in my line to re-bait and reset it. When the lure (spinner in this case) got about 10 feet from the boat, almost on the surface I noticed a nice size fish right at the lure and thought "wow, I do have him, he's just running at the boat and I didn't feel him". I stopped reeling to play him a little and realized he wasn't hooked, but just attacking the crap our of my lure. I held to see if I could hook him up, but he just kept going after the lure, kinda head butting it. He finally gave up and left. I know they hit our lures, not because they're hungry for the corn, but more in agressive defense after being attracted to the lure.....but I'd never really seen it happen like this before. Pretty cool. I know I caught him later that day. laugh hyst
ricks
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I am hopefully getting my Humminbird back from its second trip back to Virginia for warranty replacement of the Transducer. You’d think if they get a bad transducer they would test the replacement? Nope. Instead I got the pleasure of a 2 hour install, a 1.5 hour drive to Dworshak to test and find the new one didn’t work at all. At least this time they paid shipping both ways.
Anyway, friday I get it installed and sunday I am going to try Dent. Me fingers be crossed!
Rick
Anyway, friday I get it installed and sunday I am going to try Dent. Me fingers be crossed!
Rick
kok-head
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don't tell me where that fish was or i'll be tempted to invade your area and catch it
last fall i was fishing LP and i had a line out very far (about 130ft) and with the sinker i had on it the lure was prolly running around 15ft deep or so, + or - a few ft
when the wife said it was time to head in i reeled it in quickly (just about as fast as i could) and hooked a good size kokanee, right when the kokanee hit the lure i looked down at my line counter on my reel and it showed about 30ft
that kokanee either ran it down or grabbed it as it went by and that lure was moving fast, i didn't know a kokanee could swim and accurately grab my lure at a speed like that, in well over 100 trips fishing for kokanee ive never had that happen, and one of these days something stranger will prolly take place
Thanks, and yes the lures I use have there own action and that is my favorite leader length. I will shorten them up some for Hoochies but I'm a fan of the longer leader.
I also had this happen this year for the first time, I had my release go off so I started reeling in fast to reset and a nice Koke followed my lure all the way up to the boat. I was stunned, he pulled off right at thte boat Maybe they like it faster????
mowrus
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I was fishing Friday of last week and did well.. But started to notice the the kokes we landed had the hooks out side of the mouth. They were hooked in the eye or jaw or both. An other question is we had lots of take downs but when we picked up the rod out of holders they were gone. We were long lining. Using hoochies with double hook..Any thoughts on uping the odds? Nice fat fish 16-18 inches.
kok-head
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thats kokanee fishing, lots of bites somedays when they just toy with the lure but don't aggressively attack, soft rod and monofilament line and downriggers (so you don't need sinkers) give you the best chance of landing them
many days ill notice the rod barely moving in the rod holder during a strike so it could be a small hit from a small fish and they might just be missing the hooks (but grabbing the squid body or head) when trying to strike
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spoons
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Hey JTM, I'd appreciate it if you stayed out of my secret spot.
I agree with kok-head some days I boat every fish I catch and some days I can't put a fish in the boat to save my life, that is what keeps me coming back!!!!
Too funny spoons!!!!!! This made me laugh out loud!!!
Had a much better day yesterday (Thursday). Put 42 in the cooler and lost as many. They were at 25 to 30 feet on the downriggers. Longlines didn't fare as well but those that we caught were with 2 ounces at 100 to 130 feet out. Sunburn abounds!
John
I was there again to day, I did not know that Turner was going to be closed. Anyway I went to Spring Shores #2 and man were there some truck and trailers there, strangly the fleet was not hammering the mouth of the narrows not sure where they were? Now I love to fish the mouth and this was my chance so I jumped on it, I got into some very nice fish. It was a great day on the lake but our time is short there was a ton of wakers and jet ski's out already.......
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MackayGuy
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The ironman triathlon is going on this weekend a the dam side of LP. I was going to go up today, but got tied up and didn't make it. Looks like you had a good day.
Sluggo
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Hey everyone...I would like your thoughts/suggestions on a mystery to me. We fished LP yesterday and had three setups. 1. Downrigger with sling blade and squid/hoochie. 2. Weighted Line with flashers and kokabow. 2. Regular line with 1/2 oz weight, flashers and kokabow. All the action was on the flashers and kokabow. We did not get one hit on the downrigger. This seems to be the pattern with us at LP. When we fish Anderson Ranch, it is just the opposite with most of the action coming on the downrigger. I am stumped why I cannot get the downrigger to produce at LP. I have tried different setups and as well as different lengths with the downrigger but to no avail. Any thoughts or suggestions?
It was a great day!! I was on the lake and enjoying the wonderful weather, catching fish is a bonus..
Made my inaugural trip of the season today. Fishing was slow but steady. Told my son when we went out that either no one was going to be out there because of the race or everyone was going to be. We weren't alone. Only fished for 3 hours because I wanted to get back before they closed half the roads in the valley down. Ended up boating 8. Had plenty of bites to limit out but my son was a little exuberant on setting the hook and was yanking it out of their mouths. Been using the standard Cannon releases for years but today made me breakdown and order a set of Chamberlains. Think it will help on the hookups. Saw several fish getting caught but no one seemed to be killing them. When I left at 10:30 this morning there were 20 boats fishing the mouth of the narrows.
Fished slingblades and hoochies at a variety of depths from 18-35' caught a fish about everywhere in that range.
Fished slingblades and hoochies at a variety of depths from 18-35' caught a fish about everywhere in that range.
kok-head
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At times it seems likes only certain setups will work, I've run into similar situations fishing for steelhead, it seemed like in a certain hole I could only get them to hit jigs but no hits when drifting gear along the bottom
On any given day there will be dozens of different combinations of setups and methods that will produce at lucky peak, I caught a limit of fish today on long lines but I spoke with several people at the ramp who could only get their downriggers to produce
I would suggest to keep tweaking your rigger setup, I've had slow days before that turned into limits of fish by simple changes like shortening leaders by 2in or by coming at the kokanee from the north instead of the south, if you keep making changes you will eventually produce
This is some amazing insight take heed, I will only give any lure or depth about a 15 minute window to produce, then I change.
