For the early season fast growing tender mouth kokes that throw and tear out hooks so easily, I use Diawa Ultralight Spinmatics with 4lb test mono on the small Ticas.
Also been using for the last 2...
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For the early season fast growing tender mouth kokes that throw and tear out hooks so easily, I use Diawa Ultralight Spinmatics with 4lb test mono on the small Ticas.
Also been using for the last 2...
Left the ST trailer tires behind years ago for LT E rated highway tread radials. 80 psi rated and far stronger and safer than any trailer tire. ST trailer tires are not closely regulated and tested...
haven't fished Blue Mesa in several years myself but here's some info that might help.
big pile of nice koke filets.
http://bluemesafishing.com/img/upimages/061312/613bmf2-tn.JPG
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guess I'm going to miss the "Excellent kokanee fishing" at American Lake the rest of June as reported by WDFW. Money for triploids but none for kokanee.
http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/washington/153/...
give me a call boys when the commercial guide services start targeting American Lake with 5>10 guides and sleds with a half dozen fishermen on each boat.
we'll do some koke lobbying in Oly. if I...
based upon those criteria listed by smalma, those of you in the S. Sound area with limited driving distance ranges are restricted to an overloaded kokanee resource, American Lake. Much as many SW...
could be too rich on the idle screw.
with access to carb mixture screws at troll rpm adjust idle slow speed screw in until engine starts to slow down. turn back out 1/4 turn. do same for high...
My whole point is that there are far more lakes/reservoirs close to urban/suburban areas that will support koke populations. What we pay state FW biologists for is to biologically pinpoint those...
fish the length the kokes tell you, they always know what they like on a particular day.
tie up several shorties leaders, 6>8"
mid 8>12"
long 12>18"
try one length, no bites and fish on the...
now that's funny
dog that loves eating kokes.
dog lickin' good.
We koke fishing fanatics can help our own cause by contacting your state legislators and state fisheries dept with requests for more hatchery planting/stocking programs for kokanee in more lakes and...
call or email Tim Peone, Spokane Tribal Fish Hatchery. they're running a large kokanee hatchery planting fish in your area. Spokane River, Lk Roosevelt etc.
Hatchery
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must be American Lk? nice Omega 3 butter belly fatty kokes. must be lots of feed this year.
picture #3 =s blood sport. take no prisoners alive. proves how vicious and hard kokes hit.
corn...
no matter how careful one is in the release of an immature, not fully grown juvenile fish; there is some mortality.
We have NO catch and release in kokanee here since the vast majority are a man...
great write up on C&R. napalming topic here in the Pac. NW over wild steelhead and sea run salmon.
any of the 3 yr old class spawn in FG?
this years thick as fleas on a coon dog's belly 3 yr...
nice fish. obviously still some of the original sea run sockeye genes in some of the remaining kokes in W. lake.
with all the heavy tourist activity along the short spawning river upstream, the...
thanks for the Yale report in tough WX conditions.
used to love the cold wet but old bones can't take it anymore even for tastey crazy kokes or fat winter steelhead.
Yale kokes have always been...
http://www.rockymountaintackle.com/tips.php
http://www.protroll.com/books/?id=3&p_id=all
http://www.fishwithjd.com/2008/05/02/how-to-catch-kokanee-the-basics/
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wonderful informative video that shows it all.
must be great feed in Sammish this year, deep fat belly big kokes already
it's killer fun when the kokes go on that early season top water first...
90%+ of the corrosion damage to an alum boat occurs inside from splash and salt deposits especially where a hose nozzle won't blast the stuff off.
under ribs/frames, around rivet heads, welds....
put a 6" section of super braid on the Shuttle Hawk tied thru a drilled hole at front lip. tie a small interlock snap sz 2 or 3, on the other end of sb. hook snap to DR cable, put SH on cable below...
I notice far less blowback in late season trolling higher speed trolling with the new braided DR line. Helps make turning easier with 2 balls and 4 poles out deep.
I now use 6lb finned balls for...
looks like Kokes to me
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spring time with all this cold rain and snow meltoff, go shallow.
Their food source this time of year is 100% algae which comes up to no deeper than 10 ft to get energy from sunlight.
It takes...
I'm a firm believer in using a line counter reel for set back.
spring flat line surface fishing with no side planer =s 50>150 ft back with no weight and just a troll blade device or dodger
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