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I was talking with a buddy as we drove along the south fork about a month ago about this - it's really amazing how big and how often the slides are - makes it clear why the lakes had so much sediment in them. We were thinking that Arrowrock clears before lucky peak just because the water coming into lucky peak is from the bottom of the dam, so it will get the dirty water first, whereas the water coming in from the south and middle forks has cleared up quite a bit. I agree with Sawtooth too - a rapid rise would probably stir things up quite a bit.

Side note - if anyone is looking at floating the south fork take time to look over the river - it has changed a lot since last year and could be dangerous in spots that were easy before. There's a point right below the ramp below the dam that looks like a much bigger rapid than it was in the past. Lots of other new sandbars and stuff too.
 
it was around 40.5 in the morning, and getting up to 46 by afternoon. That was sat. and sun. Quite a temp change, but the air tem started at dawn at 29 and by 3pm it was over 60. Going from coveralls and frost on the boat, to shorts and a tanktop
 
Spent the day fishing at Lucky Peak and finally boated 2 kokanee at around four. Finally we didn't get totally skunked.thumbsup
 
terek said:
Down By the dam. Had the best luck right in front of the dam, and by the 3 pine trees on the road side. Dont tell non of the googins though, forum member info only ;)
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Your secret is safe with us... Well except Mackayguy he tends to let the secret spots out.
 
MackayGuy said:
101noway101 Not me
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laugh hyst this place is great!

We are getting ready to head back up, (I know, its an addiction, i have a problem) let ya'll know what is going down. I also got a misc bead kit last night from cabelas, so get to try out some home made spinners. Never made any before.
 
Caught one small koke and a trout last night by the dam. One on the downrigger at 25 feet and the trout at 10'. Koke on a green hoochie and the trout on a worm behind a dodger.

Water temp was 43.5. Fished for 3 hours.
 
JTM said:
Your secret is safe with us... Well except Mackayguy he tends to let the secret spots out.
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MackayGuy did eventually share his secret parking spot with me, but i signed a confidentiality affidavit and to sweeten the deal i also gave him blue prints for making homemade kokabow lure copies
 
kok-head said:
MackayGuy did eventually share his secret parking spot with me, but i signed a confidentiality affidavit and to sweeten the deal i also gave him blue prints for making homemade kokabow lure copies
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Wow....payback is a bugger huh? Ok....I started this didn't I? .....and I will continue it.:cool:
 
I will make an attempt to go this weekend. I usually don't fish on the weekends but work has me committed to heading to Africa for 30 days. If I don't make it up Sat or Sun don't catch all the Kokes while I'm gone. (Ugh.... Africa.... It usually takes 3 days to get that smell off of me :mad)

Pauli
 
Had an alright day for march. Nothing like last weekend, but hey, whatever. Started slow, but picked up after a hour or so. As soon as we started catching fish, the boats came over like flies. Got one small koke right at the end of the day, but as I was cleaning it overboard, the lip ripped......Almost cried as it gracefully sank into the abiss at 1.27 mph.

I never seem to be able to post pics directly to a post, so here is a link to the album its in. Dont ask me why it always uploads them upside down :/ The one on the bottom was 16 1/2 inches. Pretty much all the kokes i have got this year have been large. Seems like this summer will be epic. Tossed back 5-6 smaller trout, and stabbed 4 squaws in the head. Too bad the squaws are starting back up. Havent had many yet.
Pink spinners again. Herring corn. 15-25 feet. 1.25-1.35 mph. Water temp started at 41 and by noon when we left it was around 44.

http://www.kokaneefishingforum.com/fishing-forums/album.php?albumid=361&attachmentid=7816
 
First time poster here, but we've been watching the forum since we casually took up kokanee fishing a couple of years ago. We're new at the game, but we've taken the kids to Dworshak a half-dozen times the last two years boat camping and fishing. We've always caught fish (sometimes good numbers), but not generally as many as most on this forum do. With that introduction (low skill level, fishing with kids), I wanted to post on our trips to help give back to the forum, since it has been really useful to us.

Last Sunday (3/8), we decided to give the kokanee a try during the fabulous early March weather (65 F and sunny). We launched at Freeman crk. and fished down across the canyon crk. bay and then along the dam without a single bite for about 2 hours of somewhat diligent fishing. This was the first time that we haven't had at least sporadic success. The trip was still fun with the great weather. We got some bb gun shooting done, scouted some rock piles for summer bass fishing, and checked out live forest fire by camp 12.1, but I was surprised to not get any kokanee action on our normal presentation of various color wedding rings presented between 20 and 50 ft. I chose to fish toward the dam from Freeman crk. because we were way earlier in the year than we've gone before and I gather that the fish kind of start by the dam and head upstream as the water warms. I figure that I may have messed that up because when I called the dam to check water level, the Corps fellow said that they're already filling the reservoir (as opposed to pulling it down) because of the horrible snowpack this year. The water level is way higher than even in previous April trips, and on the way up, so maybe I should have fished our normal spots upstream of Freeman.

Anyway, that's the report. Bad fishing, but good time had by all. Hopefully we'll see lots of good reports on this forum before we head out for some boat-camping later in the year!
Doug
 
Finally hit 'em good today. Hit the lake at the crack of 10:00. In a 2 hour period we hooked 12 and boated 8, all within an inch of 14". Kind of skinny compared to summer fish but happy to get them. Water has cleared some. 44 degrees. Black and red seemed to be the best colors. All fish hooked between 16 and 28 feet. Got on a school and we and 2 other boats stayed on them, Bite ended just after noon and we packed it in at 1:00. First trip this year where we really felt like we had something good going.
 
Ran a recon trip today, Lake is not brown but a merky green not as clear as normal. Seems like it is higher than it was at this time last year going to start fishing it on Friday will post up a report.
 

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