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I fished yesterday for about an hour and a half before the wind got too bad. I saw only two fish on the locator between the dam and pipeline gulch. Turner still has the short center dock. The other docks are not in the water yet.
 
Headed to LP on Friday. Any suggestions of where to start? Spring Shores or Turner at dam? Read a bit of info from Arrow Rock and suggestion was to fish shallow... 10 feet or less as water is warmest up top and Koke's like approx. 53 degrees. Any suggestions welcome. I need to get the inside info cause every trip last year my wife kicked my A$$ fishing for Koke's! I'm prepared to tell her the fish are DEEP! 101ok101
 
I would love to help but the last 2 times I have been there I got my butt handed to me. All I can offer is I marked most of the big schools closer to Spring Shores and nothing nor any hit's by the dam. I am heading out Friday to but I am going to brave the crappy road and hit Arrowrock.
 
Launched about 130 a Spring shores, idle out and drop the gear, hooked first fish about 10 minutes later. not a bad start.
dr's at 29 and 19, running 4 inch dodgers with orange hoochies on one side of the boat, and Sling blades with orange/white hoochies on other side of the boat.
Had fun today, hooked, fought and seen over 20 fish---- only landed 10. 101duh101. hooked fish on every rod. Fish disappeared at about 5. left the rest of the fish to fight another day. Probably seen alot of you guys up there today, holy smokes does anyone work on Friday's anymore. LOL.
It was a fun day.
 
Made it up to LP today. Launched around 10 am and wife hooked 2 and landed one and I hooked and landed one in the first 45 minutes. Then things slowed down a bit for us until around 2 pm. Hooked 4 more and landed two, decided it was time to head home. Fished right off the main ramp and every fish was hooked directly in line with the ramp????? Started at 10 am fishing 10-15 down. A 6 inch dodger with a small hoochie with it's own blade in green with white spots and a 3 inch green worked best. Later fish down at 30 ft. Again, green was the color.
 
kok-head
all the fish were in the 15 to 17 inch range. not a bad size for LP this early, in my opinion.

Conservationist,
You were using green, Bright green, Light green, ??? I do not seem to have any luck using green. No confidence in the color i guess.
 
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DRM said:
kok-head
all the fish were in the 15 to 17 inch range. not a bad size for LP this early, in my opinion.

Conservationist,
You were using green, Bright green, Light green, ??? I do not seem to have any luck using green. No confidence in the color i guess.
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That’s awesome, those are great sized fish for LP for April, spring shores is always a popular spot, sounds like it’ll be a “bumper boats” course up there pretty soon

my boat has a blue bimini top and a big ugly faded-grey mariner 150hp on the back, I’ll be up there tonight and tomorrow night fishing for a few hrs, if anyone sees me feel free to motor over and I’ll let you know if I’m catching or just fishing
 
DRM -- Wife's green lure was a "Wiggle Hoochie". Darned expensive little lure at $4.99 for a piece of rubber. It is sort of a light green with dark blue "splotches" on it as best I can describe. They have a little plastic lip up front and have tons of action. My one fish was on a bright green hoochie about 2.5inches long. It was not the right green or size apparently as she hooked many more fish. But BRIGHT orange and pick didn't do it either. Did see others using pick and catching though. Sometimes you just have bad luck.

AS TO SIZE, we hooked a dink of 10 inches who I'm afraid came home with us as he decided to engulf the hook and despite all efforts, kept doing a belly float. Others were right around 14-15 inches.

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I started at about 8:30 this morning. Boats were so thick around Spring Shores you could have almost walked between them (at least it seemed that way). I trolled towards the dam and got to the Bowl Recreation Area with a grand total of one trout. I decided to try Spring Shores again hoping some had left. By about 2 many of the boats had either given up or were trying elsewhere. I ended up with five nice kokanee all about 15 inches fishing a troll at 20 to 25 feet. I gave up about 4:30 and had to wait in line to get off the water. A busy place, but most of the boaters were reasonably courteous. A good day on the water for April.
 
Thanks for posting conservationist and Physion, I was up at spring shores for about 2 hrs on the evening of 4/27/13, I put in as most boats were taking out, my father in law and I both voted for fishing and the three other female family members in the boat voted boat ride, I've never fished for kokanee in lucky peak after 4pm before and I've also never fished up by arrow rock dam, in 30 min of fishing I hooked one fish and lost it, I only had 2 rods in the water and I left my corn at home and on the way home my trailer decided to throw a bearing buddy wheel bearing cover101thumbsdown101, it was a fun time on the water but pretty much the opposite of usual and ideal fishing for me
 
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Put in on the evening of 4/28/13 at spring shores and fished for about 60min, hooked 4 and lost 2, the ones that made it to the boat were small and not worth keeping, hooked the fish on a pink 2.5" squid, a small rainbow trout pattern spoon and a green 1.5" crappie tube all running behind small sling blades, fished were hooked right across from the ramp, watched someone in a red four winns boat land what looked to be like 2 good size fish
 
bummer about the small fish Kok-head, but at least it was a very nice day to be out on the water. always tomorrow. :)
 
I understand about not wanting to catch or keep the small fish. However, finding some small fish is a good indication for future years. The big ones we catch now were smaller just a year or two ago. I'd be concerned if no one were catching any smaller fish.
 
My son and I went out on Saturday first thing and fought the wind for a couple hours at the dam. We managed a double after about an hour with two nice fish. One was 16 and the other 17. Caught them on sling blades with orange and pink hoochies. His was with no weight long lining and mine was set down to 8 ft on the downrigger. I didn't realize I had one until we landed his and I popped the rod off of the release and it was on there. I guess I need to figure out my tension on the release a little better. 101facepalm101
 
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bummer about the small fish Kok-head, but at least it was a very nice day to be out on the water. always tomorrow. :)
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it was a nice evening and not too windy, took some family and friends out for another dinner cruise, a few people in the boat had never seen a live kokanee before, and the limber rods bouncing in the rod holders with the bait clickers sounding off was exciting and made us think we had 17 inchers on the lures until we got em to the boat and realized they were first year fish, pretty funny
 
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I understand about not wanting to catch or keep the small fish. However, finding some small fish is a good indication for future years. The big ones we catch now were smaller just a year or two ago. I'd be concerned if no one were catching any smaller fish.
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no doubt Physion, in another 2 or 3wks the fishing will pick up dramatically, you and some other forum members did well recently for quite early in the year in my opinion seeing as how all weekend I was measuring 50 degree surface temps, I knew the bigger ones were behind the lures but I could only entice the little ones, it won't be long before 15" and up limits are being caught in 1-2hr timeframes and I can't wait
 
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