Kokanee thread

[h20hunter]

Anyone still fishing Lake Stevens?

[SMASHLEY777]

Ive been hammering them at  loon lake on the eastside of the state at nite.  A red bluefox spinner with the treble removed, followed by a 18'' lead and red glow hook, and pink maggots.  Fishing 30' of water at the bottom and we cant keep the line in the water!!!   Ive never had much luck with them, but night time is the right time.  My lovely wife  :drool:and  two floaty lites made for one of the best fishing outings ive ever had.  Some of them went 17'' which was just almost entirely too much fun.  When hooked they rocket off the bottom and crash headlong into the bottom of the boat, and it doesnt even daze them.  They are quite amazing fish  We caught almost 100 fish in 5 hours of fishing, over three nights and hooked and lost many more.   Kick on the lights and they come in herds,  you can watch them swimming below chowing on all the tiny critters attracted to the lights.

hey! i didnt see you already put this one here lol! i called em cherry bombers i didntknow they were called red bluefox.. guess im still a beginner eh honey? 

[Alchase]

My son and I went back to Riffe again on Saturday morning. Wind made it a little interesting trolling, and did not see allot of action between 8:00 and 10:00 near the dam. So we pulled up and ran down to just east of were swifford pond comes in. Worked the rock line and started to hook up. Picked up one at 22" three more in 12" - 16" range all silvers. The 22 incher made 3 great jumps like a respectable silver should. We had to be off the water by 1:00, and bite seemed to be just strating up.  I really hate leaving the water when the bite is on, LOL.
Got a little sun burned, and some great looking fish on the first day of summer. 

[snocohunter]

Anyone still fishing Lake Stevens?

I talked to greg last week he said morning limits are common...

[Fishnclifff]

Fished Yale Res. today with the wife.
We boated 14, lost 3 times as many.
Gonna tie up double hooks and try that.

How much leader do you run for a wedding ring, off of a lake troll or cow bells?

[Alchase]

Fished Yale Res. today with the wife.
We boated 14, lost 3 times as many.
Gonna tie up double hooks and try that.

How much leader do you run for a wedding ring, off of a lake troll or cow bells?

Depends on what my lure is.
If running a wedding ring or other lure that has its own blade or action, I use the the standard length that comes with them or 24" to 36".

If I am running teaser or hoochie I run them 12" 18" behind the dodger do the dodger's side to side motion moves the hoochie back and forth real well.

I troll as slow as possible, my 15 hp 4 stroke yamaha will idle down to about 0.5 mph.

[Alchase]

There are a few Kokanee blogs that recommend a little different then what I do.
 
For lures without action or spinner the leader should be 2 1/2 times the length of the dodger.
For lures that have there own action, the leader should be 4 times the length of the dodger.

[Fishnclifff]

Thanx.
I use my electric motor. Had it on slowest speed all day. Shut it off when the wind picked up. Worked well.

Funny addition--   When GI Joes went down, I picked up some ambassador knockoffs - cheap. I went to Fishermans and picked up 2, 7ft rods- cheap.
When the boat broke I quit boat fishing and haven't been able to find those rods.
I broke a rod sunday and started looking through my collection for a replacement, and found the missing rods
My wife said -- get this" maybe you have too many rods"

I was like,  whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat ? 

[Alchase]

My wife said -- get this" maybe you have too many rods"

I was like,  whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat ? 

Sacrilege!

[widebear]

Lake Roosevelt Kok's are hot right now. 15" to 25". Lots of 3 to 4 pounders. Very few clipped fish so limit usually only 2 fish. But their nice!

[xd2005]

Man I need a new boat! 

You use downriggers for kokes too, huh?

[bowhunterforever]

Lake Roosevelt Kok's are hot right now. 15" to 25". Lots of 3 to 4 pounders. Very few clipped fish so limit usually only 2 fish. But their nice!

How are you catching them and where? Tried down by whitestone yesterday and only caught a few trout.

[Alchase]

The wife and I hit Alder on the 4th. We got on the water around noon, motored over to the dam.
Using 1 oz weight followed by a UV flasher with snubber, then wedding ring. I baited up my wife's top hook with three pink power bait maggots and the trailer hook with shoo-peg corn soaked in scent. Told her to go out 50 pulls.
I started baiting my rig, when she gets hit on pull 29, LOL.
One hit one fish in the boat, total wet time less then 3 minutes. Starting out nicely 

After an hour and a half, she has three on the stringer, I have one. 
We have missed twice that many and were are using gamakatsu reds 

I had one huge Koke on, got it all the way to the boat and he throws the hook about 4 ft from me, then just sits there taunting me. I try and scoop him up with the net and almost got him, but that wakes him up and he takes off with a splash.
As I am bringing my rig over to re-bait, the swivel attached to the weight and every thing else, decides to let everything go to the bottom. 

I re-rig using a pink hoochie and I am back to catching fish.
We pickup and run over to the "No Wake Zone" behind the logs to get away from the idiots inner tubing.

I guess idiots can't read, half of the boats coming in the no wake zone were doing 20 + MPH. Where are the water cops when you need then.

We fished until we limited, then headed home.

Oh ya, I did a little experimenting with various lengths of leader and with or without scent (shoe-peg soaked in scent).
We had probably twice the amount of bites when our leaders were shortened to the 12" to 18" length behind the flasher then with the standard (out of the package length) and no twisted tangles.
We also had noticeably more hits using the shoe-peg with scent. It only takes one or two kernels on the trailer to make a difference.

I also learned a good lesson the hard way.
Do not put the scent on you shoe-peg corn until the day you need it. I put the scent on last weekend, for the trip to Riffe. By yesterday most of the corn was mush and would not stay on the hook.

A great day of fishing, even if we lost twice as many as we caught, but that is Kokanee fishing. 

[Ridgeratt]

Well hit loon last nite. It was the proverbial fishing for "Ghost's". Fished from about 8:30 till 2. We picked up 20 but most of the boats around seemed to draw a blank. Had several folks move closer to perhaps catch them.

[mallard79]

When using corn...we use it a max of 3 days after we open the can whether it gets soaked in scent or not......just like anything else it goes bad....and lets be honest...it's not that expensive as long as you buy it from the grocery store instead of the tackle shops.....