Lake Stevens, Kokes, 2015

[WSU]

Call john. He's got it dialed and is a fun guy to fish with. It will be money well spent.

[h20hunter]

John is a good guy and fishes with some real passion!

I've got a few things I plan to change. I'll tweek a few things and plan on being back out on the water this weekend.

[Gobble Doc]

   Nice job. 

[h20hunter]

Ok. Leaders all shortened,  dodgers cleaned and ready. Any reports from today?

[95powersmoker]

Ok. Leaders all shortened,  dodgers cleaned and ready. Any reports from today?

Seen a few being caught. I didn't catch any. Will try again tomorrow.

[h20hunter]

I'll be in a white north river, gray top. Gimme a wave.

[mallard79]

Limited by 9:30. Had to work for them and lost several and had some drive bys.... We will be out again in the morning. 

[h20hunter]

Got a nice double so far. Beautiful morning.

[95powersmoker]

H2ohunter, pretty sure I saw you out there. Nice boat. I was having kicker motor issues so called it before even putting lines out. Be out again next weekend.

[h20hunter]

Well....we didn't quite slay 'em like I wanted. We landed enough for dinner and managed to lose about the same amount.

How many of you guys are running a treble on your lower hook? I run just to smaller hooks and was thinking I could increase my chances of landing them with a treble. We caught ours at the surface down to 15. We had our speed ranging from 1.3 up to 1.8 or so.

[mallard79]

We managed to put 12 in the boat and lost quite a few (my 6 yr old was on the rod) . My 12 yr old and his buddy put 6 in his boat and lost a bunch.

Try slowing down more. We very rarely hit 1.4 mph...it's usually an accident if we do. All of our fish were caught @ 1.1 and 1.2mph yesterday and @ depths from 10' down to 30' with most coming from the 19 to 25' range. I marked schools down @ 60 to 70 and chased them with no biters.

We don't run trebles. I run my second hook further back than most people do. I think it does two things....it gets more of the short striking fish and if a fish does get the front hook the second hook usuall swings around until it finds a flesh which helps.land more fish.

[mallard79]

You can also check out my Norhwest Kokaner Addicts page @

https://m.facebook.com/groups/998274426868550?tsid=0.5360060422681272&source=typeahead#!/groups/998274426868550?view=info&refid=18

[h20hunter]

Thanks for the tips!

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Your BBQ looks good!

[h20hunter]

Thank you. They are tasty. We landed one of my bigger kokes yesterday. I didn't put a tape to it but I'd say about 14 inches.

I'll be back out this weekend I hope. Going to take some of the advice, slow down a bit more, work the riggers and watch the sounder, and I think maybe shorten up my leaders just a tad more.