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Gulp or Powerbait maggots - can't remember the brand off hand. I find the "natural" color productive but they also have them in chartreuse and a shade of red. Put a couple on each hook.
 
mrgene said:
kok-head,
where do you find maggots at in the boise-nampa area?
gene
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i do use the Berkley brand gulp maggots in natural color

i think people would be fine putting almost any traditional fishing scent/color of bait on the hook though, I’ve experimented with just about everything you could put on a hook for kokanee and rainbows and i find that plain left over table corn works great for kokanee (and that way I don’t need to fuss with trying to find shoe peg corn and all of the different scents that now exist) and anything with the scent of a mealworm-night crawler-maggot works well for rainbows

when I go fishing I can usually have a fish netted every 20min or so which is slow production for a lot of the folks on KFF but I’m pleased with it, and who has time for catching all of those fish when you have delicious beverages to grab and open, changing songs on the ipod, watching other boats get really close to see what you’re using and trying to stay clear of them, looking for mule deer bucks on the hillside, etc…
 
Heading up to LP in the morning. The internet says Spring Shores Main ramp is still in the water. Anybody have any thoughts? Is Spring Shores ok to launch or should we head to Turner Gulch? Thanks for the info.
 
AlumaChris,
I drove by the ramp last week and it was still good to go. According to the Department of Interior website you should have 35 feet of ramp to work with. If I didn't have take my son out to site in his rifle for elk season tomorrow I would be out there as well. Should be a nice day and next years spawners should be active. Let us know how you do and welcome to the site.
 
Was up there yesterday. Spring Shores is the only option. Great for launching. The dam is closed due to our friends in Congress! Mike P.S. The bank fishermen were doing much better than the boaters! (for trout)
 
fished for a few hrs on 10/5/13, launched at spring shores around 2:30pm, there's still a dock in the water and plenty of good ramp to launch a big boat

saw about 7 other boats fishing, talked to a few guys on the water that got skunked, they were using a variety of rapalas and spinners and i told them to grab some dodgers and squids for their next outing

talked to 2 boats heading back down from arrowrock, 1 boat had 1 kokanee and the other boat was skunked

fished the first big pool towards lucky peak dam but marked schools everywhere

we stayed pretty busy with near nonstop bites, less than half of the bites resulted in hooked fish and we lost many of them, used the same lures / tactics I always do, fish were all 0 to 15' and speeds were between 1.5 - 2mph

these were some of the fish I reeled in, we had 3 people in the boat fishing and ended up with a few limits of kokanee and rainbows, they were all between 12 - 14"

water temps averaged 62 degrees, in a few weeks all those nice 14" next year fish will be right on top and up for grabs tooexcited


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When we felt the cold this A.M., we opted out of our Cascade trip and chose LP instead. It was beautiful today with calm water and abundant sunshine, and....best of all.....eager kokes and trout. Steady bites all day; we rarely went more than ten minutes w/o action. Boating them was a bit more difficult, but eventually limited out. 3 on the lead, and 11 and 15 on the cable. Kok-head, thanks for the locale info. We owe you!! Mike
 
kodiak1 said:
When we felt the cold this A.M., we opted out of our Cascade trip and chose LP instead. It was beautiful today with calm water and abundant sunshine, and....best of all.....eager kokes and trout. Steady bites all day; we rarely went more than ten minutes w/o action. Boating them was a bit more difficult, but eventually limited out. 3 on the lead, and 11 and 15 on the cable. Kok-head, thanks for the locale info. We owe you!! Mike
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glad you found them, the last few times out that's where big schools have been feeding, i have buddies that swear by fishing right in front of the spring shores and turner gulch launches and they stunk up the place the whole weekend, i marked small schools down by the dam but huge schools in the channels above and below and right in that big pool but no one was fishing it for some reason

any size to the trout? i can usually get some decent trout (15-20" range) to cooperate in the early morning but i haven't hooked into any rainbows bigger than 15" this year and i'm wondering if it's just me or if other people are also only getting the smaller rainbows
 
Caught a lot of trout today, esp. compared to earlier in th season. They were all larger than planter size, but nothing bigger than 13". I have been trying the spot we are talking about lately, because my theory is that they slowly migrate towards the dam in the fall, and reverse it in the spring. And I don't exactly know what triggers the move to under Arrowrock at times? Go figure. One thing about koke fishing.....you have to figure it out each and every time!!
 
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kodiak1 said:
Caught a lot of trout today, esp. compared to earlier in th season. They were all larger than planter size, but nothing bigger than 13". I have been trying the spot we are talking about lately, because my theory is that they slowly migrate towards the dam in the fall, and reverse it in the spring. And I don't exactly know what triggers the move to under Arrowrock at times? Go figure. One thing about koke fishing.....you have to figure it out each and every time!!
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i agree, there have been times as early as April and as late as October where i have caught kokanee at: lucky peak dam, the marina and arrowrock dam all within a few days of fishing

they are tough to figure out sometimes, luckily the lake is full of younger fish and odds are good one will usually stumble across a school or 2 each fishing trip, and in between kokanee schools the trout will keep the lines tight
 
Fished LP yesterday, and we had to work for them compared to a few days ago. Managed 6, and lost so many it is too embarrassing to get into the details!! Mike
 
last time i went out i know i lost at least 20 fish, even with slow action ultralight rods and razor sharp hooks its still not enough many times and those kokanee find a way to pull the hooks out, they fight so hard i swear i have an 18" fish on until i get it to the boat and it only measures 11-13"

how'd the launch at spring shores look? is the center dock still in the water?
 
Launch is great. Res. continues to drop. Found most fish in the area you mentioned, north of island now out of water. Mike
 
kodiak1 said:
Launch is great. Res. continues to drop. Found most fish in the area you mentioned, north of island now out of water. Mike
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Mike,
How far from the marina launch is this island? I have never been on the lake this low before. Hope to go Saturday too.
 
Just head down the narrows towards the dam, and you will come to a wide area with many short docks and shelters. Where it begins to narrow again, you will see a large sandstone "finger" with buoys on top. This is what I was referring to. Mike
 
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