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Hit the lake Saturday evening left the house at 4:30p.m. On the water around 5 or so, Off at 7:30 with 5 and lost that many I think I don't count what doesn't hit the net. Still bright and fiesty.

My cousin hit it this morning and he ran all over it and came up with a blank and 2 bass. He called and is beating me for intell now!!! They fished 7 hours and he is wanting a lesson.
 
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Well I showed my cousin what I have been hauling out!! He is now on fire to go catch some even though it is winding down. I get a call from him every other day while he is looking for gear.
Last weekend I handed him a "Rod, Bait, gave him the depth and speed" He fished for over 6 hours and never picked a fish.
 
Well took my almost 80 year old cousin out this morning to show him how to put a few in the boat. He has scrounged up some tackle but he left it at home and showed up with what he thought he needed!
So we met him at the launch this Morning, Myself and the Capt'n of the Boat, AKA the Q-tip my Golden Retriever. First thing he says is that dawg isn't going is she?
Why Yes she will be in the boat before you will. Now that is settled we are off to fish. I have been doing fairly well at tagging a 5 fish limit in under 2 hours.
So he uses his stuff and in maybe 30 minutes I have 2 in the boat. So I have him now haul up the stuff he has brought and I get him set up. Put him a cannon ball with mono.
He is chipping at me and telling me it can't take 2 hours. So today he was correct . I tagged in 2 hours and 10 minutes. But the fish are just starting to turn, Caught one hook nosed male most others were bright, but won't give you more than a week before it's done.
So now were are on a mission to get him tagged out. Since I rigged him he has 2 fish in and only needs 3 more.
Lord this turned into a struggle! I'm watch the graph and staying over fish but he says we got bites over there thats where we need to be!!
He hooks several and either looses them at the boat or wants to point the rod right at them and haul them in. So anyone gets away.
We fish for 3 1/2 hours more to finally put 3 fish in the boat.
told him it was a secret on what we used.
So only he and I and the folks at the launch will know what we used. When I was driving off he was hauling fish out of his cooler for Show and Tell.

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Morning Ridgeratt - Glad to hear you were able to "muster up" some kokes for your cousin. Maybe he won't remember how you did it?
Fished salmon the last ten days at the mouth of the Deschutes on the Columbia. Will post report later when I get settled back in.
 
Well in the on going saga!
We took the cousins boat on Sat. First thing was I had to get his gear rigged so he could fish but that's OK! He let my dawg in his boat. Fair trade. So off we charge in search of kokanee. We make the same runs I made the week before and in 4 hours never have a hit. He can't understand why. Were using the same gear and bait he has a depth finder that he can't read from the back of the boat and has no real idea of what speed we are trolling. But he is positive its real close to what we did the week before.

I just told him he should name his boat Jonah!! the bad luck boat!

But we do catch walleyes out of it he just needs to do some experimenting with it to figure it out.

So we call it quit's and while we are at the launch some folks have run out of gas and need a ride back to there camp. One of the more senior fellas looks at my cousin and asked is this your "Son". Let the cussing begin!!!

So now I'm calling him Dad.

Right now he's doing some bear scoutin so I may need to go fetch up a downed bear one of these days on a phone call.
 

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