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Koke-n-a-smile

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I met Kokonuts at his place and spent the day on his boat on Saturday. What a great trip. The sky was overcast, there was little to no wind, and the water was really calm. I haven't had any luck catching Kokanee this summer, so Kokonuts was kind enough to take me out and show me how. Well, the morning started out a little slow, but Kokonuts started catching fish. (The highlight of my morning was seeing a deer on the shore, and netting his fish;)) Kokonuts caught 3 or 4 nice size Kokes, a small tiny one we tossed back, and a swaw fish. We switched sides of the lake, and Kokonuts caught his 5th. I hadn't even had a bite! I was using basically the same thing he was, but nothing was happening on my pole. The main difference seemed to be the custom flasher rig that Kokonuts made and was using on his downrigger ball. So, since he had limited, I switched sides of the boat, and used his rig. Bam! I had a bite. I reeled in, and about 5 feet from the boat, it spit the hook out! A few minutes later, same thing, it spit out the hook when it saw the boat. I figured that was going to be it. Well, we stuck with it, and finally, I landed my first Kokanee!tooexcited I caught two more, and when we had finally given up for the day, I was about to reel in the line, and Bam! This one practically jumped out of the water! We ended the day with 8 fish to bring home. (If you are doing the math you will realize we caught 9, well, all I can say is that one got away, so we brought home 8.;)) Thank you Kokonuts, worthy12you are a great teacher! I look forward to returning to the lake before they turn for the year, hope to see you on the water.
 
Catching them is a real blast! It was a very good day & I think we'll have a few more before the end of the season.

I'll be working on some more of my custom flashers to try out this weekend. I will be out on the Lake this Fri & Sat.
(14th & 15th)., I hope to see you out there! .....thumbsup......Kokonuts
 
It looks doubtful I can make it on Saturday. (wedding anniversary) I might be able to go on Sunday. I should be able to make it out next Saturday, let me know how they are biting. Knock 'em dead:)
 
Merwin---8-14 & 15

I made it out to the lake Fri. morning about 10 & fished untill 4 with only 3 to show for all that time. The fish were still scattered on the South Side but not hitting anything that I offered.

Sat. I was out with a couple of friends from the Hideaway. We hit the water by 7 & fished until 12 with NOTHING to show for it excepy a few small Squaw Fish. I was trolling on the South Side again & marked a lot of fish but they just didnt hit anything that I was using. The fish were at the 50ft. level , water was 70 and it was cloudy all morning.
I didnt see many boats out either day, and those I talked with had the same hard times. crymeariver.....

I'll be back out by the end of the week to try it again.
....thumbsup....Kokonuts
 
I been getting average size of 13-14" with some up to 16". They have all been fat & healthy !

I do think they are starting to turn, I caught some last week that showed the start of the hook nose.

..........thumbsup.......Kokonuts
 
Kokonuts, too bad about the fishing this weekend. I should be out there next Saturday, hope the bite is better. I picked up a new apex, we'll see how it works:) Anyone else going?
 
Looks like I will make it out on Saturday. Talked my brother in to going, so we will be in my boat (17' Smoker Craft, blue and tan). thumbsup Anybody have any ideas what they may be biting on now?
 
awesome, see ya on the water. Ill be putting in around 6:30 or so I live in troutdale. And hooking up with kokonuts out on the lake. thumbsup I will be in my 12ft turquoise boat with my son and a friend.
 
Cool, I should be putting in around the same time frame. Supposed to meet my brother in Battle Ground around 6, so probably be up at Speelyai around 6:45 or so.tooexcited
 
Well, it was good seeing everyone on the lake Saturday. We caught two keepers, and a whole mess of squaw fishcrymeariver The Kokanee were caught on a red wedding ring, and a red pro-troll with an e-chip, and they weren't the biggest fish I have seen on the lake, but decent enough. Talked with the 1000 Trails guy at the dock when we pulled out, sounds like nobody is having much luck anymore, and that several of the regulars he talks to are done for the year. What do you guys think, are we done already?

---Koke-n-a-smile:)
 
The ones I hooked weren't pink yet so I think we still have a little time left. I released a few small ones Saturday, but had several ferocious hits. I figure these fish were so big and net shy they just threw the hook out of fear.laugh hyst

I'm not quite ready to give up yet!
 
Looks like I will get to go on Friday, and maybe one day in the weekend!thumbsup Let me know if you will be out there, and we can meet up!

Koke-n-a-smile stomper
 
Sounds great! I will have the family with me this time, so of course the weather forecast is for rain. I am shooting for fairly early am on Friday, but my idea and the families idea of early aren't exactly the samelaugh hyst

~Koke-n-a-smile
 
Better lucky than good

Got the whole family rousted and on the water Friday morning. The fish finder wasn't working, couldn't get it to turn on at all. Everything looks ok, but no dice. I decided to go for it anyway. So, without a downrigger, no leaded line, and no fish finder, I made my way out to where we had caught fish before. I threw on a red wedding ring behind a beer can lake troll on one, and a green apex behind a jack-o-diamonds lake troll on the other, gave around 50 pulls of line for each and set out fishing. Ended up catching a nice fat female on the wedding ring about ten minutes before we saw Kokonuts. We fished that area for a while, no more bites, so we moved on down the lake. Ended up the day with two Kokanee, and two squaw fish. The second koke came on the boy's pole, and they both took a turn reeling it in:) The sheriff came by, and said that was better than everyone he had talked to for the entire week. So I guess it's like they say, better lucky than goodstomper Anyway, both Kokes were bright silver, and didn't really look like they were changing, so maybe we still have some time in the yearthumbsup
 
merwin

this time of year i go real deep. i usually go with a ford fender w/ 5oz weight trolling a wedding ring or apex. last year i was letting 100-130 pulls at least. i don't have a good downrigger so i long line it. i might try to get up there tomorrow and see. almost out of all my canned kokanee.
 
if a guy doesn't have a downrigger, i've improvised.

salmon reel on short rod with 150' of 130lb dacron in holder
4lb to 6lb downrigger weigh, fine for the slow koke troll
Sep's Simple Troll, takes the fishing line down the DR lin, returns to the surface on a hit release.

http://sepsprofishing.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=43000&Category_Code=STDU

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these work well on a regular DR also, saves lots of ball pulling.
 
Sunday 8/30

Fished Merwin one last time this Sunday. Managed 7 fish for about 3 hours. 2 over 15" and the rest around 12". Kept to ourselves just west of Spelyei. A green weddign ring /ford fender combo, and a green/glow scorpion spinner/sling blade combo accounted for all the fish. It was a great summer up there, can't wait until next year!!! Here's my fishing buddy with two of the better ones......
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