So this past weekend I had the opportunity to fish both days and learned a valuable lesson at the same time. I put two really nice fish on the boat on Saturday both were just under 2 lbs a piece. I fished from 5:30 to about 10:30 and it seemed that most boats I talked to were having the same or even worse luck. Although I had heard that there is a couple of guys who were slaying em. Sunday I had two fish in the boat almost immediately and then a really long stretch with nothing. I had almost thrown in the towel but decided to text a friend who gave me some advice. I've heard this advice before and read it in books and elsewhere, but have never really practiced it as diligently as I should. The advice was to throw my tackle box at the fish. I've been told and read that if you're in an area where the fish are you should stay there and you should be changing tackle regularly. I watched some guys who were constantly in motion, gear was coming and going quickly, every 2nd or 3rd pass they'd have a fish on. so I decided to to follow that advice, I tried all kinds of things, different colored dodgers, sling blades, hoochies, spinners, combination of things I have never used before and so on. after one such change I had two fish hit the same pattern (green spinner with a green/silver) sling blade. The first fish hard and took line and I knew this was a bigger fish just by the strength of the fight... my first thought was that it was a brown. I boated a 20" 2 lbs 14 oz kokanee, by far the biggest koke I have ever put on my boat. The lesson I learned was this, if you want to keep catching you have to be aggressive with gear changes... it's like a lesson I have to relearn every other year when chukar hunting... I can see my dog on point and I know that there's no way a bird is holding where he's pointing and as I'm walking in telling my dog what a knucklehead he is, pfffftttt there goes a chukar. Dave thanks for the advice I will never go more than 20 minutes with the same gear in the water if I'm not getting hits...
