Goldknight
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Great report. So looking forward to getting my boat in the water.
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kenbarb
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Mike, Those are really nice size Kokanee at L/P, they were larger at Dworshak last year and there are some larger ones now, it's just locating them. One thing that equals it out a little is the 25 fish limit here, they will grow a little as summer progresses on. you are right on with the Bass fishing.
Goldknight I will keep a lookout for your boat, can we see your house from the lake? You are going to love the easy access, and the beautiful area. Barb and I live in Hell's Canyon, right on the Snake River, it's a beautiful place with outstanding fishing. We feel fortunate and blessed for the privilege, so we know your feelings for your new home. hope to see you on the water soon. Ken
Goldknight I will keep a lookout for your boat, can we see your house from the lake? You are going to love the easy access, and the beautiful area. Barb and I live in Hell's Canyon, right on the Snake River, it's a beautiful place with outstanding fishing. We feel fortunate and blessed for the privilege, so we know your feelings for your new home. hope to see you on the water soon. Ken
hoolee99
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Fishing was spotty, lots of people fishing, wind howling in the morning oh yeah and had to save a guy who fell out of his boat no life jacket, he was close to his other people on a dock so he somewhat swam to them as we fished up all his crap
He lost and had to go get his boat for him. People amaze me I realize that you feel safe under control of you own boat I know I do but when it's cold and howling winds please use you're brain it only takes a second
He lost and had to go get his boat for him. People amaze me I realize that you feel safe under control of you own boat I know I do but when it's cold and howling winds please use you're brain it only takes a second
ricks
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Doggonit,
kenbarb and Goldknight, you're making me homesick for Dworshak. This is baseball season for me, I've been dragging the boat off to our games in other places. Last week, and next up to McCall. But soon, I promise, we'll cross wakes.
We did catch 15 in a couple hours on Little Payette last week. So all is not a sob story. But I sure miss being on the Dworshak.
Rick
kenbarb and Goldknight, you're making me homesick for Dworshak. This is baseball season for me, I've been dragging the boat off to our games in other places. Last week, and next up to McCall. But soon, I promise, we'll cross wakes.
We did catch 15 in a couple hours on Little Payette last week. So all is not a sob story. But I sure miss being on the Dworshak.
Rick
kok-head
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Ended up boating 9 fish this morning, 3 of the kokanee and one of the trout were over 16" and the others were all 13-14"
I too found fishing spotty, one moment they wanted a spinner on a downrigger and the next moment they wouldn't touch that but decided they would hit a squid on a long line, I kept track of how many times I'd spin around to go back through the school after getting a bite and out of well over 10 times only once did I get repeat bites, the rest of the time I'd have to spend 15-20 min trying to find where the school wandered off to or finding a different school that would cooperate
Fished the island most of the day, 5 and 10' on the downriggers and 100' of line out on the long lines with 1oz and .5oz sinkers
I too found fishing spotty, one moment they wanted a spinner on a downrigger and the next moment they wouldn't touch that but decided they would hit a squid on a long line, I kept track of how many times I'd spin around to go back through the school after getting a bite and out of well over 10 times only once did I get repeat bites, the rest of the time I'd have to spend 15-20 min trying to find where the school wandered off to or finding a different school that would cooperate
Fished the island most of the day, 5 and 10' on the downriggers and 100' of line out on the long lines with 1oz and .5oz sinkers
spoons
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Same report from me. I covered a lot of water trying to find some schooled up that wanted to bite but no dice. boated 6 kokes and 3 trout on Saturday. Fished 20 feet up and the ones we did catch hit a variety of dodgers and pink or purple hoochies and pop gear with wedding rings.
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Rick- What size were they? Last year they were about 7 inches and not very fat. Still fun, though.
John
ricks
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They were not big, 8 inch mostly. But the water is cold and the meat is firm.
It was weird, the good fishing was in 25 to 35 foot deep water, not the deeper channel. In the channel we were marking fish at 50 foot, but never got anything to bite. Longlining in 30 foot of water with no weight would hit schools. Color didn't matter much either. Fun though, once we got it figured out. Had no luck at all on bass. Probably cause I am such a poor fisherman, but we couldn't even find them on the finders.
Rick
Fished Sat morning 630-1130, caught 4 by 830, then went on a streak of about 6 hookups and 6 losses. They were biting really well just couldn't keep them hooked, then at about 930 everything seemed to stop, wondered if it was the cloud cover. Then 11 hooked my 5th nice 16incher then had to get off the water to work on honey do list. Mixed bag on what they hit, dodger and pink hoochie and kokabow on a ford fender they seemed to like the most. Fished mostly around 20 feet. Just wonder when the weather gets a little warmer the bite might get a little better.
Sounds like you fellas had better luck than I did. Fished Saturday from 8:00 to about 4:00. Only one nice 16inch koke. Caught it by LP dam, long line out 100' with 4oz of weight. Fender and WR. When I was tying the boat down at the ramp I talked to a guy that got on the lake at 9 and had his limit by 1. He said the key was scented corn. Wouldn't share what scent. Do you guys use scented corn and if so what do you recommend?
kok-head
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i don't use scents, lots of folks do though, tons of info on KFF about scents, i found a good thread on KFF titled "Favorite scent for kokanee?", its a good read
fishing down by LP dam isn't usually very productive this time of year, i would recommend dragging that long line through the fleet of the 50 or so boats that fish the narrows thumbsup just kidding, but if you find a good group of boats get 100-200 yds or so from the edge of the big cluster and give that area a try, or stalk the guy who wouldn't share his super secret scent with you and watch him next time to see if it actually took him 6hrs to get his limit 101ok101
some guys are so secretive with their lures and scents, sometimes they won't even show you where their secret trailer parking spot is laugh hyst
lots of folks feel like one specific thing is the "key", but it really comes down to a combo of 4 or 5 different things properly proportioned at the right time of day and year, im pretty confident that i could have done exactly what he was doing (and not used any scent) and probably done as well or at least close to it
guys on KFF who have kokanee dialed in even on a slow day can get a limit in 2.5-3hrs so i'm betting his "key" (to what was actually slow fishing whether he knew it or not) to his 1.5 keepers per hr pace was not changing gear / speed / approach / depth enough to get his limit in 2 or 3 hrs
Kokanee fishing can be frustrating at times, and an adrenilan junkies dream other times. Fishing one day to the next is never the same even though there are always a few lures that will always pick up a few fish. The challenge is to find the rig that will keep you busy until your arms get sore.
I've had days where one side of the boat will catch all the fish and the only thing that was different was one person was washing there hands with Dawn dish-washing soap about every 15 minutes.
I've had days where one side of the boat will catch all the fish and the only thing that was different was one person was washing there hands with Dawn dish-washing soap about every 15 minutes.
MackayGuy
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Who are we talking about here? When I'm parked in my secret parking spot you can't even see my truck/trailer. nonono
kok-head
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haha! if i ever find it i'll keep quiet, very "hogan's heroes" if you will..."i see nothing!"
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Last year, I heard through different sites that scents were a must, so I packed corn with scent and some without. By the end of the year I wasn't using any scent and did really good, been out about four times this year, no scents and have done real well. I will say when I started using down riggers that's when I really started catching them. I really don't know if that's the trick but it sure is fun to watch them hit and pull the line out of the clip and watch them break water.
Thanks for the feedback. For now, I will continue to fish scent free... I have always been fairly successful in years past. I am convinced that the solution is to fish more often. I think changing depth will help most of all. Most of the fish I saw on the finder were around 50'. Trolling at 1.4mph with 100' of line out and 4oz of weight should have had me close to that depth. I'm planning on heading out Thursday after work to test my theory.
kok-head
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fishing more will help, nothing can replace time on the water, and you might be close to 50' deep depending on your speed, but the fish down there are going to be pretty sluggish and the cool water and near zero visibility will make fishing tough when fishing 50' deep in LP, and its hard to say if those are kokanee that deep, most folks aren't fishing deeper than 30' right now
kok-head
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no idea about how many folks are signed up, but it could be in the thousands at this point 101shock1101
