Polar Bear
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ok .....can you guys tell me about the corn ...??? I troll using dodgers and spoons , I wanted to try something else ???? how to use it and what to use it on , best kind ???
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Most people use Shoe Peg Corn. Green Giant cans it and you can find it at Wally World and Albertsons up North. I like to dye mine with Procure's KokaneeKillerKorn Dye and some KokaneeKillerKorn Magic as well and then scent it up with your favorite oils.
Polar Bear
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corn
and do what with it ????put it on a spoon ??
and do what with it ????put it on a spoon ??
A spoon . . . no I generally add one to two kernels per hook depending on the action of the lure. tongue2
For spoons I generally replace the treble with a Siwash hook.
I don't fish with treble hooks for Kokanee so most of my lures are tied up with snelled double Gami hooks in size 6 to size 2 depending on the size of the fish.
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kokaneeking
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I like to make up alot of different sents. I will usually take some soaked in tuna oil, procure anise (not alot of anise you can make it to strong think of it like salt to much makes your food taste bad) and procure kokanee special. I will also mix up various combos of the three tuna oil and anise together has worked great in the past. Heading to green peter this week and going to try some dyed with food coloring and sented of course.
SilverBullets
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Polar Bear...Your talking trout, correct? I think I remember you saying there's no koke lakes where you live. On small spoons sometimes just useing gel scent is a better choice...too much bait can screw up the action. For trout you might give Wedding Rings or Apex lures a try behind dodgers. Just one piece of corn per hook is all you need. Generally corn will work on the same lures you use a piece of worm on. Give the Kevorkian, Rainbow Trout, and Watermelon Apex a try. Get the 2" size.thumbsup
+1 I'm sorry, I didn't know we were talking trout. I wouldn't put corn on a spoon for trout. Scent and the attraction of the spoon should be the ticket! As Silver Bullet mentions there are a series of lures known as "Worm Harness" style lures. The Wedding Ring is a classic example as are many Walleye trolling rigs. A small piece of night crawler would be your best bet.
kokaneeking
Member
yeah i didn't know we were talking trout either. i have done really well with tuna oil soaked white shoe peg corn and a chunck of night crawler on protroll trout killers works great for me when i'm after trout. don't like the echip for kokes but seems to kill the trout.
SilverBullets
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Yep, whenever I target trout I use worms, when it's koke time the corn comes out. I have heard of success useing corn for trout though...might be worth a try. Another thing to consider is the Gulp products.
Polar Bear
Active member
harnesses
ok .....I got a few dozen different wedding ring and bead harnesses , I will give them a try , seems that the spoons are getting stale , time to try something else .....I let you guys know how the results...
ok .....I got a few dozen different wedding ring and bead harnesses , I will give them a try , seems that the spoons are getting stale , time to try something else .....I let you guys know how the results...
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I gotta throw out a dissenting opiniopn about corn and spoons. I have been wacking the kokes and trout on Imperial Spoons and Dick Night spoons with a single kernal of shoepeg on the hook. Fished behing a dodger there is plenty of action.
Just my 2 cents...
Just my 2 cents...
Steve079
Active member
Yeah, me too. I don't think you're catching the trout because of the corn. It's the lure, or/and the scent, as mentioned. It's like tipping your wedding ring/crawler harness with night crawler. You'll catch an occasional Koke, but far more trout. At least here on the left coast. But hey, to each his own. that is my 2 cents, anyway. Besides, free advice is worth just what you pay for it.
Kokanee Kid
Well-known member
Up here last trip no trout thumbsup
We use white corn w/ DNA gel worthy12
I use 2 pieces on wedding rings and 1 on small spoons.
Works awsome up here.
We use white corn w/ DNA gel worthy12
I use 2 pieces on wedding rings and 1 on small spoons.
Works awsome up here.
3RivrFishr
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I'm heading out for a 3 day trip Friday morning. Currently I have corn marinating in 4 different scents with 3 different colors. Pautzkes kokanee fuel, Mikes Lunker Lotion, Smelly Jelly Kokanee Feast, a mixture that is just a bit of anise and krill and a concoction of my own I labled Nuclear Carp Spit that contains some of the shoepeg corn liquid, varying small quantities of of pure anise oil, glo scent earthworm oil, krill and herring oils and enough bad azz bait dye to turn it all pink. I call it nuclear because when I mixed all the liquid it was glowing a radiant pink color in the little plastic mixing cup. I may have over done it! tongue2 Oh, and Ive got a couple jars of gulp! maggots in white and green and a jar of salmon eggs as well as a jar of garlic scented red marshmallows that I only used once and caught nothing on. Tackle store guy made me buy them!
BTW, the 1st kokanee I caught this season was on a small pink dick night behind a pink Sierra dodger and..ahem, tipped with a piece of corn soaked in Lunker Lotion
BTW, the 1st kokanee I caught this season was on a small pink dick night behind a pink Sierra dodger and..ahem, tipped with a piece of corn soaked in Lunker Lotion
kokaneeking
Member
recently I have been dying my corn with food coloring. I've been having great success. orange has worked good as well as some crazy purple concauction my 3 year old made up, he wanted to make some bait so i let him put in what ever sents and colors he wanted. fish seemed to love it to bad i have no idea what he put in it other than every color in the food coloring box.
SilverBullets
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I carry it on the boat for emergencies, but have yet to try it out. The homemade concoctions I scent and dye have been doing just fine.
There is an article in the August issue of STS on this very thing..."Is Corn the Hot Ticket For Kokanee?" Most of the article is on Pautzke's Fire Corn. Sounds like alot of guys swear by it.thumbsup
I religiously use KokaneeKillerKorn dye and KokaneeKillerKornMagic available on the Procure website. It toughens the corn and is also a preservative that allows you to keep it in the fridge for months without spoiling. I add my scent at the same time I mix up a batch. The color is hot pink. I've been using it for 6 years now with incredible results.
DragginBalls
Active member
I have been using the Fire cure for my corn as well. I can say it will and does out perform all others. I have had guys bring their own recipes to try and prove me wrong but it does not happen. I am in Idaho and fish kokes 2 to 5 times a week and this stuff works great. A little anise oil never hurts either. Pro cure
