Favorite scent for kokanee?

[kenamatic]

Koke special and garlic plus mix sometimes with a small touch of anise. Mikes lunker lotion kokanee can be hot and actually smells good on your hands (good right before busting out a sandwich for lunch

 

[mrmike]

SeaDog great idea ,but it isn't legal to chum in Oregon or fish at night/ There seem to be different lakes that certain things(sents work) I have friends that fish GreenPeter and have good success with tuna oil I've tried other lakes and had absolutely no response with tuna oil. Garlic been a good enhancer for feeding was establpiished by the tropicial fish folks to make fish that are stress from being transported to start feeding again. I've called Seachem Corp and picked there brain. They supply different Amino Acid Supplements also

 

[MMDON]

fencingShrimp/Anise scent. Kokanee Killer Korn Dye.

 

[BorntoFish01]

Hi,

Scents? Here's what I've done. (Fish for Kokes at night at anchor - fore and aft - with lights here in Ct.)

Got a 3 inch metal mesh tea ball at my local cooking store.

Here's the good part -> Take a can of Green Giant Shoepeg Corn and puree it in a blender with a little powdered sugar (touch of anise if you like).
Then pour it into an ice cube tray and freeze.
Put cube of frozen Shoepeg and a stone as weight in the tea ball (close and lock) and with a good heavy cord send it down to the depth where you see the school of Kokes on your fish finder.
Cube will melt slowly and disperse corn scent at that depth.
Kokes will hang around all night long! tooexcited
(This should also work during daylight hours)

Just make sure you hang the tea ball on opposite side of boat your fishing from or far enough away so hooked Koke doesn't get tangled.

SeaDog

Glad to hear that's working for you. I went the same route last winter...buying the tea balls. I then got some soft foam balls that would fit inside them and came up with various scent concoctions which I introduced the foam to in a vacuum jar. Into the freezer they went....and there they sat this past year cause I was pretty much grounded due to medical reasons. I look forward to giving them a try this coming season. BTW, my presentation approach will be different than yours in so far as the tea balls will be clipped to my down rigger cable.

 

[King Tut]

With scent in the water it attracts more fish. With current and wind it spreads. The fish will follow it to that area. Plus scent covers the scent that you may of transfered to your lure. Wash your hands often.

 

[King Tut]

With scent in the water it attracts more fish. With current and wind it spreads. The fish will follow it to that area. Plus scent covers the scent that you may of transfered to your lure. Wash your hands often. I think if you troll a spot it is like chumming. Won't fish go to where the scent is the strongest. Their scent is 1000 times better than a human.
Once they get close then they see your flasher. Everyone has their own theory and if it works don't change. I saw many awesome scent ideas. Scent on the downrigger ball would probally work if your lure was'nt to far behind.

 

[MMDON]

With scent in the water it attracts more fish. With current and wind it spreads. The fish will follow it to that area. Plus scent covers the scent that you may of transfered to your lure. Wash your hands often. I think if you troll a spot it is like chumming. Won't fish go to where the scent is the strongest. Their scent is 1000 times better than a human.
Once they get close then they see your flasher. Everyone has their own theory and if it works don't change. I saw many awesome scent ideas. Scent on the downrigger ball would probally work if your lure was'nt to far behind.

That isn't the way it works unless you are dead in the water and jigging. If you are trolling the scent trail is a myth.

 

[mrmike]

King Tut MMDon is correct oils are NOT water soluable THEY don't dissove in cold water what they are an inhancements. Salmon EGG cure's in Tide water are designed to milk out creating a scent in water, this is done but not with oils but by other means your getting them confussed. Pro cure has just came out with water soluable oil scent Why? because oils don't desolve and water solulable scent dispurse leaving scent but for only a very short time. Remember there are alot of products on the market to catch fisherman not fish.

 

[poder1]

dying corn

what do you dye it with?

In 1990 or so, I started dying corn, I used red food dye. Put the corn you are going to use the nite before into a bag and add a little food dye in it, and let it soak over nite. If you want put a little anise oil in the bag, and in the morning rinse out the bag with water so you won't have red hands after you fish. After i started doing that everybody started dying their corn , You would see fisherman with all colors on their hands.That is mainly use at Lucky Peak and Anderson.
I use my Ted's bugs with a dodger ..........ted samford guided on Stampede for ten years. fishin not wishin guide and tackle retired.

 

[Ken Jones]

Me, I like a Hum Dinger Lure in 1/4oz. In floresent Orange with Shoepeg corn and dip Lure into Juice. Remember Bluebacks are Shrimp and Plankton feeders. What causes a strike,who knows. KEN.

 

[kokaguy1]

tuna oil has NEVER let me down

 

[F-Bomb]

I open the shoepeg can drain out the water and run in a fifty fifty blend of shrimp anise smelly jelly with WD40. Just let it soak and THIS ABSOLUTELY WORKS..at least at LP, Arrowrock, and Anderson. It's the same blend I use for washing my steelhead lures as well. Back prior to the koke days of LP we used a heavy dose of wd40 with berkley power bait powder. Killer on trout with a triple teaser. It was another proven winner but the powder went extinct. It formed some kind of gooey nasty slime and then hardened on your boat to a substance undiscovered by modern science. Similar in hardness to a diamond...well harder than hammer tone powder coating anyway!