Kokanee-Toni
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Praise the Lord, thank you Jesus. I went fishing at American Lake and was blessed! I didn’t get on the water until 7:20am. Why is it so hard to get up? There were only 2 rigs in the parking lot, a raft getting ready to launch and then a boat came in as I was launching. I start in 40 foot of water heading out toward the Veterans Hospital. Caught a few trout that got off at the boat. I think it was about 9:15am when the first kokanee hit. What a slab. I knew it was big...wow. I was panicked for a short time because it got into my other rod on the other downrigger. Then it released. I thought it came out of the clip but it broke my line and now my Dick Nite Copper Hot Orange Tractor Tread Dodger UV with the Pink Ice on it are at the bottom of the lake. So I stayed in the same area going back and forth. Got another one but not as big. Then a cutthroat and a rainbow. Then I thought I had better head back but I want to take the temperature of the lake. While I am fooling with the downrigger cable getting the thermometer on it to slide down the clip releases. I thought oh great. Then I reel in and it feels weird. I have something. Was it the long liners lake troll that went by? Wow, they are far away. No, I think this is a fish. Head shake, yep a fish. Where is the net. I got the net ready and see the flash of the side of the big fish! I got it in but it wasn’t as big as the first one. So I am done. 3 big kokanee, a rainbow, and a cutthroat. Not bad for getting up late.
I used our favorite for this year Dick Nite’s Pink Splatter Dodger with Wannafish A Lure’s Pink Splatter Squiddy Thing, with corn and pink gulp maggot. I was in 84 feet of water down on the wire at 38 feet. The temperature down there was 67 degrees. The sky was cloudy and when I first got to the lake there was a mist from the lake being warmer than the air. I stopped fishing at 10:15am.
The kokanee were so big I could not get them on the board I usually use for dispaly, with the trout. The big one 17 inches, 15.25, 14.5 inches and the trout: cutt 14, rainbow 13. I tried to weigh the big one but couldn’t get the scale to work. It was so wide that I couldn’t grip it around its body.
I used our favorite for this year Dick Nite’s Pink Splatter Dodger with Wannafish A Lure’s Pink Splatter Squiddy Thing, with corn and pink gulp maggot. I was in 84 feet of water down on the wire at 38 feet. The temperature down there was 67 degrees. The sky was cloudy and when I first got to the lake there was a mist from the lake being warmer than the air. I stopped fishing at 10:15am.
The kokanee were so big I could not get them on the board I usually use for dispaly, with the trout. The big one 17 inches, 15.25, 14.5 inches and the trout: cutt 14, rainbow 13. I tried to weigh the big one but couldn’t get the scale to work. It was so wide that I couldn’t grip it around its body.
