Started the long haul up to the lake at about 9 am, and by the time
my 4 year old, his grandpa and I were on the water it was 11 am. We tried
the areas that the locals suggested all day, with a few little ones hitting
every now and then. Never did land one of those little things, suspect they
were little browns. We tried everything from various colored power bait and
eggs, as well as all sorts of spinners. Finally, Grandpa (an old fisherman
from Michigan) suggested we hit the mouth of the river. After the long haul
from the dam to the river (with an eight horse motor) we cast a couple of
spinners along the deep side of the mouth with no luck when we decided to
head over to the shallow side, and along the way I opted to troll with an
old Michigan Brown Trout favorite, the infamous Rapala. After getting my
line in the water for approximately 5 minutes sure enough I got a solid hit
that was the most excitement we had seen all day. Once I landed it with
that little trout rod (which took for ever) it sized up at 24 inches. Granted it was
to big to keep but that Kokanee was beautiful and sure was fun. We trolled
for another 5 minutes when grandpa hooked into another one with the same type
of Rapala and it ended up being 15 inches (a keeper!!) After he landed that
one we decided to call it a day because we were pushing the gas limit and
running out of daylight. I know next time I wont waist the largest part of
the day at the other end of the lake to catch 2 beauties in the last 20
minutes using common sense.

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