cromedogg33
Member
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2013
- Messages
- 9
Anyone fished Anderson lately? Should be up there in the next couple weeks and was wondering how the fishing has been going.
2013-2016 Idaho Kokanee Fishing Reports Quick Links
- Thread starter sawtooth
- Start date
Help Support Kokanee Fishing Forums:
conservationist
Well-known member
Fished from about 8:30 to 2 PM. First 2-3 hours were a bust. Then hooked two nice 15-16 inchers and a dink. Fished another hour and nothing .. then 2 nice 15" fish ... Decided to go home while ahead. Felt bad as the dink was hooked bad and ended up in the bag. Only thing that worked was a 6 inch dodger with a pink hoochie with a bill. Only one side of the boat found fish.
It was a strange day on LP, I showed up at 9:30 and was the only boat on the lake! - OK that is BS there was a quite a few out, I had a limit in 2 hours but kept fishing and culling to try and get some bigger fish.
Almost all my fish came at 30' and on the same rod and side, I found some big guy's but could only manage to get a few to hit. Most times I can target the size but these fish went from 8" to 17" all at the same depth and speed with the same lure so go figure.
WR's at 30 was what worked for me. Oh yeah the 17 came right in front of another boat!! That's always nice........
http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww179/JTM_62/DSCF1019.jpg
Almost all my fish came at 30' and on the same rod and side, I found some big guy's but could only manage to get a few to hit. Most times I can target the size but these fish went from 8" to 17" all at the same depth and speed with the same lure so go figure.
WR's at 30 was what worked for me. Oh yeah the 17 came right in front of another boat!! That's always nice........
http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww179/JTM_62/DSCF1019.jpg
Last edited:
Fished Anderson two weeks ago. Brought home 27 with the biggest right at 13 1/2" with the majority being 11-12". All fish were caught on hootchies with scented corn 20-30 foot deep on the downriggers. Very few boats were fishing for kokanee, good luck to you if you decide to go.
What tournament would that be?
Fished this morning was nice until the wind came up. Boated 2 nice Kokes and lost another 2 at the boat. Fished the same setup but only let out 65' of line. That was the trick. There were a lot of folks there for the tournament. Hopefully the wind dies down for them.
sawtooth
IDAHO Kokanee Forum Moderator
Did anybody make it up to LP for the derby? If so what was the size of the big fish and how many boats where there?
DRM
Well-known member
fished yesterday from about 3 - 9. one shy of both limits. looked like the water dropped 12 inches while we were there. did not find any of the bigger fish, but they will fit in the smoker nicely.
Kudo's to you!! that was nice, and very humanitarian. Also thank you for this post, it made me think. I fish by myself and use an I pilot, If I were to fall over it would continue to troll along without me, I now carry my remote on my belt loop.
Last edited:
cromedogg33
Member
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2013
- Messages
- 9
Thanks for the reply. I believe I'll be staying at lime creek on my trip. I've heard that's a good place to start and then go towards the dam.
Has anyone used any of the products from FWG (http://www.fishwithgary.com/) and if so what has your success rate been? Just curious, I have tried some of his methods but not his tackle this year at LP. It always seems that I go back to hammered silver fenders and squids with shoe peg corn for my best success.
MackayGuy
Well-known member
0.0% success with Gary's stuff. It looks great, but I've never had as much as a hit on it. He's got a great sales pitch. I am told that I just don't know how to fish with his gear. I do just fine without it.....and save myself some money.
I hope guys don't get offended when some of us can't catch fish on their tackle. I've never had luck with a few popular tackle vendors stuff. It just goes to show that their is a style to each of our own methods.
I believe that first and second ended up at 30.0 and 29.7 oz. I was a little short with 28.5 oz.
There was only 45 adults entered. I hope they do a better job promoting next year, there were a few that had no idea that there was a tournament going on. There was quit a few that signed up as they passed the weigh station to put there boat in.
There was only 45 adults entered. I hope they do a better job promoting next year, there were a few that had no idea that there was a tournament going on. There was quit a few that signed up as they passed the weigh station to put there boat in.
MackayGuy
Well-known member
Yeah....they do need to promote it a little more. I didn't plan to fish it, but I took my wife and our neighbor out the day before. The neighbor had been hinting to kokanee fish, so we took her out on friday. She picked it up pretty quick and boated a 18+" football (which I believe as beginners luck....but it was a really nice fish. I get credit for setting her up). Probably the biggest koke I've seen come out of LP. And that started the discussion about entering the tournament on Saturday.....so the three of us did. I know some of the guys on the Fire Dept. so felt it was a good cause.....and it was a beautiful day. Didn't catch anything that we thought would win, so we didn't weigh anything when we came in. We did catch a couple of nice limit and supported a good cause.
Someone had said that thousand were going to fish in the derby. They were wondering where they could launch that many boats. I felt that with thousand boats I need not take mine. I could just walk from boat to boat. I am one that does not like crowds so I did not even think about fishing Saturday. In fact it has been twenty years that I have fished LP on the week ends. They need to advertise a great deal more. With 45 people registered I would say it was not very profitable. I am sure they need the money, but a lot more than what they got.
