We got into Lucerne late Friday night and hit the water before sunrise on Saturday. Since we were getting good results at the pipeline 2 weeks ago that's where we started Saturday morning. I put a green squid behind a green flasher with a micro chip and lowered to 50' on the counter, speed 1.5 mph. Was setting up the second rod when the first one went off and was able to bring in a nice koke about 23" and around 4 lbs. We thought what a great start, this should be good. Well we worked the pipeline for another 4 hours and did not get another bite. I also set up two rods with blue squids and hyper plad dodgers and one rod with a green squid and a hyper plad dodger and ran stackers. I ran the green with hyper plad over the green with the flasher, I didn't want to pull that one since it had hooked up the nice 4 lb koke. I talked to a guy two weeks ago that was bringing in some nice ones with the micro chip flasher so I thought I would give it a try. I've read some cons to running a flasher especially with a micro chip, but thought what the heck might as well try it since the guy I had talked to did OK with it. On Sunday morning we decided to try the horse shoe area and actually fished the entrance to the canyon. It was almost a twin to the day before except I lowered the green squid with the micro flasher then set up a blue squid with a hyper plad dodger and lowered it. As soon as it was set it hooked up a nice 2 lb koke. well we fished all morning in this area and caught a small Mac and another 2 1/2 lb koke all on the blue squid with the hyper plad. Hooked up one more, I think it was a koke but we lost it before seeing it so can't say for sure. All in all it wasn't great but we did get a few nice kokes. We don't really have alot of experience with koke fishing but we are catching a few. My wife says I'm the only person after being blessed with a 4 lb koke that would complain because I only caught one, shame on me. Going to be camped at Lucerne over Labor Day for one last try and that will be it for this season.
