Summit Day

[Kokanee-Toni]

I went fishing at Summit Lake with a fishing buddy this morning. We got there about 6:15am and the weather was overcast, no breeze, and the surface water temperature was 67. Fishing buddy, Kokanee_Slayer, was getting bites and he got a couple nice sized trout right off. I got a few bites that didn’t stick. Fishing was slow! We fished until noon. I did get 5 kokanee and Slayer got 2 trout and a kokanee. There were only a few boats out and a couple of kayaks until 11am and then the jet skis, water skiers, and fast boats came out to play. I think the downriggers were from 40-60 of wire for catching fish in 53-90 feet of water. I used a lot of different gear with the two combo in the gear/fish picture caught the fish,
All 5 of my kokanee had bugs in their gills. One had 2 of them on the sides at the base of its dorsal fin. One had a clipped adipose fin.

 

[BonkinKokes]

Lice in their gills?

 

[Stradic]

Lice in their gills?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copepod

 

[Kokanee-Toni]

Copepods

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copepod

Larry Phillips at WDFW says "The bugs are copepods. They are common in Summit…..difficult to say what the effect is on the fish but they don’t seem to affect growth or condition. Some years they are worse than others."

 

[kokanee_slayer]

Great Job Toni!! thumbsup Can't complain about the fishing considering all the hits and the smallies C&R'd with the one line I had in the water. Beautiful day on the lake.