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yes ron, time for some leisurely trolling til night fishing,,,why i sold my salmon gear didnt enjoy the rat race....weather depending may head up sunday or monday🎣
 
fished all morning without a bump, didn't see any other boats net anything.. (only one boat ) sad day, might be the weather, need some warm temps.
 
Fished about 5 hrs today at LP, started at 11:00Am. Took home 6 Kok. size from 14" to 16.5". Released 4 small kok 1 trout and 1 perch. 2 long line poles with Ford Fender + Kokabow Kestrel + white corn 100' line out. 10' DR with copper dodger + pink squid. We caught 3 kok by the dam then no bite for along time. About 2:30PM then there were action again at Spring Shores. It was a nice day and fishing wasn't bad.
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Hooked up 19 times.landed1 nice koke. Green squid/ Firecorn going long. Got a new okuma koke pole .dropshot hooks. If you smell bacon wave.
 
Salmon on

I had a great weekend, well besides the rain on Sunday! I caught one 8 lb Chinook on Sunday and one six lb Chinook on Monday. I also caught a 23in trout as a honorable mention. No kokes.
 
Anderson 5/21-22

We fished Anderson most of Saturday and for a couple of hours on Sunday morning. We ended up with 20 koks. No Chinooks. We did catch two squawfish of approximately 3 lbs. First time I have seen that. Used microhooch, rollerbaits, and kokabows. Kokabows outperformed in pink and green. Also did well on black- probably due to the weather (black skies and squalls). Good test of rain gear this weekend. The lake is completely full. There is no beach anywhere. I wonder how that will affect the memorial day crowd. Anyway, I thought I would share. We lost a few but landed more than half of the fish hooked. We did the best within site of the ramp in what I think was surprisingly shallow water with most fish less than 15 ft deep. Again may have been due to the weather.
 
Fished LP today from 11:30AM til 3:30PM from the dam to Goosse Neck Bay. Took home 5 KoK 1 -12", 3-15", 1-16". Released 3 small kok and lost 3. Total 11 hits.
2 long line poles with Ford Fender + Kokabow Kestrel + white corn, no weight 85 ~ 100' line out. 7 ~ 10' DR with copper dodger + pink squid.
I'll go to CJ Strike tomorrow, haven't catch any bass and crappie for a long time. After the holliday we'll go to Anderson Ranch for Kok and Chinook.
 
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Arrowrock still slow

Went out Tuesday night started fishing at 3:30, only boated 1 kok, 14" fish. Lost 3 others and released 2 slime rockets. Had the wind not blown us off the water at about 430 pm in the area we were getting fish, it would have been a great night. Passed a lot of boats at LP heading up, appears LP is still producing. Good luck ya'll.
 
Finally made it out yesterday, got to LP (Spring Shores) about 445, almost went back home the weather just didn't look promising, about 515 we put the boat in and fished till 8. Turned out to be a great evening. I thought the bite was great, didn't drop below 15 feet. We boated 7 kokes, 6 were small around 12 in. Didn't really want to keep them but afraid they would die, they will smoke up real nice. One beauty about 17 inches. We lost 3 decent ones at the boat and had several bites that just didn't hook up, I was thinking they must be small and the hook kept pulling out. Looking to head back again Friday or Saturday. I threw out a variety rigs with lightly scented anise shoe peg.
 
Best day of kokanee fishing in my life. We started at Indian Creek and went up around Canyon Crk. Did better at Indian Creek and the wind was blowing straight down the lake from Freeman Crk direction. So boogied back down to Indian Crk and trolled in past the destination dock. Wow. Fish in big clumps, we were busy. Just the wife and I and she is a rookie. So we lost a few here and there or got lines tangled or people tangled learning to work a net. Great fun and never a cross word. I kept telling her not to apologize, that's fishing for kokes.

Got tired of working so hard with 4 rods in the water, seemed we'd always hit 2 or 3 at a time. So pulled the downrigger, it was just at 15-18 feet anyway. And went straight long lines. The best spot was 100 yards behind the destination dock. We just worked the area in a triangle.

Best rigs: smallish blade brass pop gear and chartreuse or white bladed wedding ring. Fairly far back since I added rubber between the lure and the pop. Speeds had to be 1.7-1.8. Getting down to 1.4 would kill the bite. Over 1.8 would kill the bite. We ran tear drop 1/2 ounce weights on the bottom of the rudders and let out 60 ft of line.

We took some corn with three different scents - Pro Cure Kokanee, Pro Cure Krill and Mikes Blue Glo Salmon scent. The Mikes ended up the best today.

Every fish we caught BUT ONE was over 10 inches.

What a morning. What an amazing fishery this year. And we saw not one other boat fishing for kokanee all morning.

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We had a similar experience at Dicks Creek but I stayed with the down riggers. I just have too much fun with the ultra light tackle. Switched up some things when we would go more than 20 minutes without a bite to try and keep catching but at one point i had three fish flopping in the boat--one caught on a purple apex, one on a green kokabow spinner and one on a pink FWG sys 2 dodger and a pink spinner bug. Anyway, Nice fat fish. We had a good morning fishing for kokes then we switched up and caught some smallies and a few nice 'bows. Another awesome day on Dworshak.
 

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