I've been hitting this lake once or twice a year with limited success. Every time I have tried in years past it has been slow, lots of fish on the sonar, and the few I were catching were small. I kept thinking to myself... next year the fish will be bigger and I'll come back. Eventually, one year, this out of the way little lake is gonna hit. Apparently that was TODAY. I think I have even done other reports on this lake on this site about how the fish were small but I bet next year...
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I started fishing around 645am There was a ton of pine pollen on the water in the morning (see pic) which made for some weird yellow tinted water in my live well but whadya do? I trolled one lead core set up and one downrigger. I had 3 colors out on the lead core and had the downrigger at 40'. I had 10, 10" kokanee by 11am. They were just nailing all silver wedding rings with a bit of worm on them. In the process I managed to catch two nice, fat rainbows that were about 14" each and I also snagged one monster mackinaw that was about 19". I didn't even know there were macks in this lake. That thing was handful on my ultralight kokanee gear but it sure was fun!
tooexcited
101idea101
I started fishing around 645am There was a ton of pine pollen on the water in the morning (see pic) which made for some weird yellow tinted water in my live well but whadya do? I trolled one lead core set up and one downrigger. I had 3 colors out on the lead core and had the downrigger at 40'. I had 10, 10" kokanee by 11am. They were just nailing all silver wedding rings with a bit of worm on them. In the process I managed to catch two nice, fat rainbows that were about 14" each and I also snagged one monster mackinaw that was about 19". I didn't even know there were macks in this lake. That thing was handful on my ultralight kokanee gear but it sure was fun!
tooexcited
