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    Default 2020 Deadwood Reservoir Kokanee Fishing Report

    Best of luck to all the Deadwood fishermen this year.
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    Default Road report

    Any news on the roads to Deadwood

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    Fished Cascade yesterday. Met a guy in the campground who said he tried to get in to Deadwood on Thursday. He drove a Tacoma with over size tires and high clearance. He reported that he drove in from the Warm Lake road and made it as far as the Deadwood Res. sign near the top of the res. He said the amount of mud, snow, and downed trees made him turn back at that point for fear of getting into something he could not get himself out of.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pollackoke View Post
    Fished Cascade yesterday. Met a guy in the campground who said he tried to get in to Deadwood on Thursday. He drove a Tacoma with over size tires and high clearance. He reported that he drove in from the Warm Lake road and made it as far as the Deadwood Res. sign near the top of the res. He said the amount of mud, snow, and downed trees made him turn back at that point for fear of getting into something he could not get himself out of.
    I’m only speculating, but I doesn’t sound like he was even close to deadwood. I tried to go home that way Friday night, but the road was closed at the deadwood lodge so I had to go through Bruce meadows (the way I came in). My guess is he was turned around up by the pass somewhere. The lower part of the road was good and dry for the most part. Only one mud hole, but we drove around it with a truck and 24’ jet boat without any issue. On the way out I did see that some poor soul made the poor decision of trying to drive through the 18” deep ruts and ended up leaving his little boat in the middle of the quagmire. The wheel barrel tires on the boat trailer didn’t help him much I’m sure. They must have either not seen it in the dark while driving too fast, or made a really poor decision.

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    That's a long crap drive for 12" Kokes. Seems like one year most people were catching the small ones, and I would go deeper and pick up the older / bigger fish in the 14" to 15" class. My Koke supply his getting really low with Anderson fishing so poor this year, I really need to fill up the freezer and not with trout.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fuzzy View Post
    That's a long crap drive for 12" Kokes. Seems like one year most people were catching the small ones, and I would go deeper and pick up the older / bigger fish in the 14" to 15" class. My Koke supply his getting really low with Anderson fishing so poor this year, I really need to fill up the freezer and not with trout.
    There may be some bigger ones based on what I was seeing on the finder, but they could have been trout/chinook too. I saw a guy catch some Kokes while mooching, but his weren’t any bigger from what I could see. I would think he was fishing deeper than I was. I fished on koke pole not more than 20’ deep so I can’t really give you a definitive answer on max koke size. That being said, when trolling 4-5 koke rods, I still catch some bigger fish on the top so who knows.

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    Default June 5 trip

    Did a rush trip to deadwood. Bruce meadows is the only road open and it was a little rough. Lots of pot holes in the first 10 miles. Got up there Thursday night at 10pm and camped by the ramp at the inlet. Figured it would be ok considering there were only a few people camped. Unfortunately some stupid clowns next to up were up ALL night drinking culminating in an all out brawl at 5 am because apparently that wife of the trash that showed up at midnight just to drink decided that it was a good idea to sleep with her father-in-law. We went over to break it up, but once we determined the children were not the ones getting beat we left the drunks to themselves. That went on for 45 minutes before they finally got them and their kids packed up in the car to head home. I always thought it was a **** show around the ramp with all the people crammed in there, but thought it would be ok, just this once. Never again will I be camping there. Who drives 4 hours just to get that stupid!?!

    As for the fishing, it was good. Fished from 6-3. Conditions were good early. Had the lake to ourselves for the most part because by noon the white caps kept most of the competition off the water. We were chasing the chinook, but had one long line out for Kokanee. 1oz with pink sling blade and houchie caught one. Switched to gold dodger and orange apex got us several more bites. Landed 5 and loads twice that many. We didn’t really slow down to fight the fish because the wind was bad and we weren’t really caring much for the small Kokes. 12” and smaller Kokes is all we caught. Not sure if we hooked anything bigger, but it sure didn’t feel like it. Other than that, we caught 1 18” chinook and 7 nice trout from 14-18”. Broke something big off, not sure what it was though because it snapped the 12# test right off the bat. Best lure for trout that day was a 4” rapala.

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