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Name: Rod Rieder
Occupation: Lacey Cabela's Sales Manager Fishing/Fly Fishing/Marine/Auto/ATV
Boat: 14' Blue Duroboat w/Walker Kokanee Downriggers/white riptide trolling motor/25 Horse motor
Lakes: Merwin, Yale, Summit, American, and Riffe for Silvers, want to hit Alder up this year!!
Fishing Methods: Trolling

Always happy to give report and what I am using. Also look to requests for more products. I have in the works for the Store in Lacey Father Murphy's bugs and 5 packs of 1.5 inch hoochies. Got some more Shasta and Rocky Mountain products in this year!!!

I love using Berkley gulp pink maggots and DNA Kokanee Scent.
 
Name..........Dan
Occupation: Retired
Boat: 22 ft. North River Commander Hdtp. Name..."The Dawghouse"
Lakes: Summit...soon to be American, Yale, Merwin
Method:Trolling
 
Name: Curt Russell
Location: Mead, WA
Boat: 18' Raider Pro-Sport, 90 & 8 Hondas
Lakes: Roosevelt, Priest (now open for Kokes!)

Great to see all of the West-siders on this thread, we fisherman can use all of the representation we can get in Olympia.
 
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Name: Phil
Occupation: Current: Collision Repair Tech Former: Retired USAF Comm-Electronics Tech
Hometown: Spangle, WA
Lakes of most experience: Roosevelt, good with most species except kokanee
Total years fishing: 40+
Years fishing for Kokanee : None, specifically, trying to change that
Methods: Trolling with and without downriggers
Boat: 20' Hewescraft Pro V
Fishing Buddy: My yellow lab Amber
Best kokanee angler: My wife Debbie

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Name: Dave
Occupation: USAF Fleet Manager
Hometown: Nine Mile Falls, WA
Lakes: Roosevelt
Years Fishing: 17
Years fishing Kokanee : 2
Methods: Trolling
Boat: 16 foot Hewescraft

Want to learn how to better fish Kokes with downriggers.
 
Name: Dave Elliott
Occupation: Sales
Hometown: Spokane
Currently: Redmond
Lakes of most experience: Loon, Sammamish, Amber, Badger, American, Stevens
Total Years Fishing: 52
Years Fishing Kokanee: 30
Methods: Trolling (leaded line only), Night/still fishing.
Boat: 12' Portabote w/gas and electric motors.

Other Loves: God/Jesus, Wife of 38 years, Adult kids/teen grandkids, Long- Distance Unicycling, Foam Art Sculpting
 
Name: Ryan Hansen
Occupation: forklift operator
Hometown: Mountlake terrace
Currently: Everett
Lakes of most experience: Stevens, Roesiger, Baker, Samish
Total years fishing: 20
Years fishing Kokanee: 5
Method: trolling/Jigging
Boat: not yet, sold my last kokanee machine to buy our house

Other: just an all around good guy that loves fishing and family, and fishing, lol.
 
Name: Jim Clements
Ocupation: Optician and USAFR medical field
Boat: 14' Hewescraft
Hometown: Roy, WA
Lakes of most interest: American, Lewis, Roosevelt with my brother
Years fishing: 40+
Targeting Kokanee: Just started this year. 4 trips and two with success.
Method: trolling, I have one portable downrigger and will have one more this week.
 
Name: Keith Jackson
Ocupation: Writer
Boat: 18' Starcraft sled
Hometown: Port Townsend, WA
Lakes of most interest: Sutherland, Cushman, Roosevelt, Banks
Years fishing: 50+
Targeting Kokanee:Started fishing for kokanee when I was a tadpole and have had several hiatuses when I chased other fish almost exclusively...recently I got fired up again.
Method: Whatever works: trolling, jigging, stillfishing, flyfishing, anything but a Dupont spinner
 
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Hello Kokeheads.

Mark from Snohomish, Wa.

Lake Stevens is my kokanee home.

Trolling with downriggers from my Wooldridge.

Built a couple rods just for these guys.
 

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Name: Bryan
Occupation: Manufactured Home Loans
Hometown: Maple Valley
Lakes of most experience: American, Baker, Wilderness
Total Years Fishing: 35
Years Fishing Kokanee: 2
Methods: Trolling (riggers & flat line)
Boat: 12' Seanymph
 
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Name: Scott
Occupation: Engineer
Hometown: Milton, Wa

lakes most fished: American, Clear, Riffe
total yrs fishing: 40

Years fishing for Kokes: <1

Methods: trolling / downrigging

Boat: 14 ft Duraboat (Camo)
 
Name: Joe
Occupation: Comcast
Hometown: Lakewood
Lakes of most experience: American, Steilacoom, Spanaway, Louise, Tanwax and Clear (Pierce)
Total years fishing: 20+ yrs
Years fishing for Kokanee : Just started again 2011
Methods: Trolling, jigging, casting


- New to the site and just wanted to say I think this site is great and very informative
 
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Name: Ryan
Occupation: Automation design Engineer
Hometown: Sandpoint, ID
Lakes of most experience: Lake Pend Oreille, Lake Roosevelt
Total Years Fishing: 25
Years Fishing Kokanee: 2
Methods: Trolling
Boat: 20' Weldcraft Mavrick Yami 150 & T8.

Other: Love all kinds of fishing. Have 3 kids that love to be in the boat. 4yr old, 2.5 yr old, and 9 month old.

Good to see the Kokanee on the rise is Lake Pend Oreille!
 
Name: Scott
Occupation: Machine Shop General Manager
Hometown: Woodland (raised in Spokane/Spangle)
Lakes of most experience: Merwin, Yale, Priest Lake Mackinaw (herd rumors of the kokes making a come back)
Total years fishing: 30+
Years fishing for Kokanee :1 (not including when I was kid)
Boat: Green 23' 98 Heliarc Pro Sport (Duckworth)
Methods: Trolling with leaded line, soon to include down riggers, night fishing (as a kid)

Fishing partner: My fish-o-holic 8 year old son who would fish 24-7 if he could. I put a spinning reel in his hand at 4 years old and the rest is history.
 

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Name...Matt H
Occupation..CCSO Custody Officer/Custom Tackle Maker
Location...Vancouver Wa
Yrs fishing...35
Lakes...Merwin, Yale
 

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