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Got on the water around 6:15 am. The lake was like glass. Focused on run across from ramp towards the dam starting out. Caught 3 nice trout and 2 kokes that were 19 inches and fat. Got them about 35 ft down, one on pink hoochie and one on a red. This was all before 7:30 am. Then it shut off. Tried for a while around the confluence with no luck. We quit about 11am for the water maggots woke up and hit the water hard and fast. The lake is suprisingly low. Did not venture in the SF arm but the impact from the increased flows and subsequent scrub of the silt and debris from last years fires seemed to have settled.
 
I went sunday. Not a lot of luck, handful of 8 -9 inchers. Caught them across from Dent Acres on bright silver kokanee killers or bright chrome triple teazers behind bright dodgers at 35-40 feet. Had a great time, of course. Swimming was great - water temp almost 80 degrees in the coves. Have to pay attention out there. Some pretty big logs floating under the surface. I towed one guy back who thrashed his IO.

Rick
 
Fished AR yesterday, and the fishing was fast. Boated 30 between 9 and noon. Had to chase them down to deeper and deeper depths all morning. Started at 24 on the wire, and ended up at 37. Some of them had a reddish blotch on their skin. Didn't seem to matter whether you presented a pink hoochie or pop gear and w.r. As usual, they were under the scum line. Pretty much had the place to ourselves. Mike
 
Hey Mike.....came by the turnoff to Anderson on the way back from Mackay yesterday and was thinking about a run up there while I still have the boat in Boise. What was the temperature like during the day? It was warmer up on the prairie yesterday than it was in Mt Home.....by a couple of degrees.
 
It was perfect in the morning, but by noon it was getting warm. I believe the car registered 89. The water temp was a surprising 71 degrees. It is def. worth the run if you like fast action. I did notice that the only boat near us wasn't getting much action due to no downriggers. We were fishing lead core on our third pole, and it shut off around 11, when they dropped further down. Mike
 
fished Anderson on Saturday. Same as Mike said, It was perfect, water was glass and only a few boats. We were after bass in the morning till about 1 when we needed some shade. drop the riggers down and in about an hour had 10 fish. was enough for the smoker and went back to bass fishing. was a great morning till everyone woke up and the wind chop started about 12 or 1 as well.
was good to get back on Anderson. just a great, clean lake.
 
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Fished for a couple hours yesterday, caught a few fish. I think I caught a rainbow kokanee hybrid. Its tail is the shape of a koke, its colors are between a koke and a rainbow, it has spots like a rainbow, and the meat was nearly the color of a kokanee but looked trout like.

Thoughts? Is this just a trout?
 
W/0 the pic can't tell you what it is, but can tell you it isn't a hybrid. Sounds like a trout. Next time, just put your finger in the mouth. The trout has well-developed teeth, and the kokanee doesn't. Kokes are almost toothless. Also, kokanee have white gums and no spots on the tail. (They also taste a lot better!!!) Mike
 
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Fished for a couple hours yesterday, caught a few fish. I think I caught a rainbow kokanee hybrid. Its tail is the shape of a koke, its colors are between a koke and a rainbow, it has spots like a rainbow, and the meat was nearly the color of a kokanee but looked trout like.

Thoughts? Is this just a trout?
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I caught one today matching your description, it was about 11" and looked a lot like a chinook, had lots of spots along its back, I'm sure it was a kokanee though, couldn't be anything else
 
Caught a limit today, most were about 14", one was over 17", my 3 yr old daughter reeled them all in, small hoochies around 25' deep, once we found them we limited in about 45min
 
Fished saturday but had all kinds of head aches, fish finder died. Had to work on my Tr1 gold for an hour. So only made it up to reeds creek. The most people I have ever seen on the lake in my 30 years + of fishing there. Hot --- my temp on boat said 101 So was a short day only caught 6 and the biggest was 9 inches. Had a good run started on the off side of cranberry creek and started to hook some up and then 7 other boats decided to join me and I couldnt make the run where the fish where so I pulled up and went home. Never saw another fish caught by anyone the whole time. Good day with just the wife and I always good scenery.
 
Thanks for the report fishslayer13, You are more tolerant than we are to get out there in that kind of heat, it just gets to the point that it isn't fun anymore. It's amazing how a landing net attracts a lot of boats, but that's the way it is on weekends. What kind of trouble did you have with your TR-1 Gold? I have been using the TR-1 for many years, before Garmin bought them out. The first ones didn't have a throttle control, later the throttle control was offered as a add on, I used the old version until parts were no longer available, then purchased the TR-1 Gold, sure makes fishing a lot more fun when you are not captive to a trolling motor handle. Is there still a lot of junk floating on the surface? had to make a trip out of state, so we have not been out since the last report.

Ken & Barb
 
Ive been stuck this year on weekends to fish and havent done much fishing of any kind. I may be having with drawls.

Tr1 problem-------The U bolt that holds the hydraulic cylinder to the trolling motor came loose and some how had enough twist to it, to rip a hole in the hydraulic hose going into the cylinder at the hose clamp. ( maybe already weak there) dumped half my oil out. So re-aliened the bolt tightened it back up, cut of hydraulic hose off. filled with new oil, bleed the system and re- attach the hose and back in business. This is a big deal if you knew how mechanically challenged I am ! LOL !

Glad that I always keep a new bottle of soy oil on the boat. First time I have ever had to use it !

Have 2 friends that went out yesterday but havent talked to them yet to see how they did. Hope they did better than us.
 

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