Paulina 9/10

[SilverBullets]

Managed a couple limits jigging today. We planned to do some trolling but the weather report was way off (east wind with white caps.) Ended up drift jigging with a wind sock targeting suspended fish and went after the bottom dwellers while anchored. All fish caught were bright silver with blood red meat and between 12-14". Jiggs used today were ones I made with orange being the best color. Corn scent was anise/krill and koke special gel on the lures.

 

[skyhammer]

Thanks for the report. I will be up there starting Monday for at least 10 days.

 

[RalphL]

S.B. Could you post a pic of the jigs and maybe describe how you use them. I have never jigged for koke and would like to try it

 

[SilverBullets]

S.B. Could you post a pic of the jigs and maybe describe how you use them. I have never jigged for koke and would like to try it

The ones I used yesterday were poured from a flutter jig mold. All were painted useing vinyl lure & jig paint and dipped in seal coat. I use a rod with a sensitive tip (you need to feel them stealing the corn) and enough back-bone to get a solid hook set with a spinning reel loaded with 15lb Tuf-Line XP Indcator Braid (diameter of around 4lb test) and a 10' section of 6lb Maxima Ultragreen. The braid is color metered every 10 feet...this allows precise placement of the jig at depth to target suspended fish showing on the fishfinder. I add a couple kernals of corn, smear some gel scent on, and once the jig gets lowered I raise and lower it 6-12". The kokes hit as the jigs falls and you have to have quick reflexes to set the hook or they'll take the corn and be gone before you have time to react.. I sometimes throw out the sea anchor to slow the drift when the wind kicks up and let out an additional 10' of line off the reel to make up for the degree of line angle. Jigs used with this method need to be 3/4 ounce.
When anchored up you can get away useing 1/2 ounce. Try to get anchored over 50-80' of water and either target the suspended fish on the fishfinder or let the jig fall to the bottom and reel up a foot. Generally the kokes on the bottom run a bit larger. Look for drop-offs and anchor on top of them to where the wind moves the boat over the drop-off. If there's no wind and the anchor isn't needed I like to use the bow mounted electric motor to move a few feet every so often to try to stay over the ones showing up on the bottom. Good luck!

 

[RalphL]

Thanks,will give it a try next week,must have something in the tackle box thats close. Can you drop to the deck and come up, or, use the dr to get your line down to the right depth than pop it loose and jig? My line counter reels should work as well. Would you use the same rig suspended a few feet below a slip bobber for porpoising fish??

 

[SilverBullets]

Thanks,will give it a try next week,must have something in the tackle box thats close. Can you drop to the deck and come up, or, use the dr to get your line down to the right depth than pop it loose and jig? My line counter reels should work as well. Would you use the same rig suspended a few feet below a slip bobber for porpoising fish??

Another way of getting down is by doing "pulls"...if the distance between the reel and first eye on the rod is 2 feet do 25 "pulls" to get to 50'. If you do use a line counter make sure it's accurate or take the few feet it's off into concideration when lowering. Pull out 50' in your driveway and see what it says on the line counter. The first time I jigged years ago I tried doing it with a levelwind linecounter reel and when I lowered it to the bottom the line counter and depth showing on the fishfinder didn't match up. I was off by a good 8' with 50' out. It really doesn't matter when jigging off the bottom but when going after suspended kokes that's a different story...you want to know exactly where your jig is. Some fishfinders are sensitive enough to see the jig going up and down. On mine the jig shows up...that's another way of getting down to a specific depth but it only works when stationary. Also, depending on the depth sometimes the jig closest to the transducer (transom) shows up better. As far as porpoising kokanee i've never seen that.

 

[kokaneekid]

Were you the only guy on the lake jigging besides your dad? SB thanks for the report I didn't make it to Paulina this year, but next year I'll be up there... I'd like to hit East Lake on the same trip...

Fish On kokaneekid

 

[SilverBullets]

Were you the only guy on the lake jigging besides your dad? SB thanks for the report I didn't make it to Paulina this year, but next year I'll be up there... I'd like to hit East Lake on the same trip...

Fish On kokaneekid

There were a few boats fighting the wind trolling and other's anchored up jigging. Once the wind did finally let up we didn't bother trolling since we were close to limiting out. I don't know how the trollers did...we never saw another net out all day.

 

[kokaneekid]

There were a few boats fighting the wind trolling and other's anchored up jigging. Once the wind did finally let up we didn't bother trolling since we were close to limiting out. I don't know how the trollers did...we never saw another net out all day.

So you had one of those days.... How many people hit you up at the dock to try and figure out what you were Using/Doing? Got to love that kokanee fishing..

Fish On kokaneekid

 

[SilverBullets]

So you had one of those days.... How many people hit you up at the dock to try and figure out what you were Using/Doing? Got to love that kokanee fishing..

Fish On kokaneekid

Believe me it wasn't one of "those days". I'm sure other's caught fish...we just wern't around when they did and didn't see too many nets being used. Fishing up there has been slow the last month or so. We've never had such a hard time locating fish. When we do find them they're not in the area's they normally hang out and seem to be scattered more than usual.