OK, I am tired from a day of hardcore trolling, but it’s a good tired. Met Toni and Nate at 5am to troll for kokanee. Rseas and his wife Karen were there as well in the Lund to help us with filming and for fellow fisher companionship. The weather conditions were “OK”, if you don’t mind changes every five minutes. Heavy rain, sun, cloudy, breezy, calm, sunny again, cloudy again – you just had to go with the flow.
We ran two riggers, stacked, and two long-lines. So six rigs running varying depths from 50 ft to surface. The usual kokanee rigs were deployed. Bait – corn (flavored with either anise scent or “kokanee” scent), and mealworms (and yes, they did catch a kok!) I got to run my new rods and must say it was fun to catch fish on these limber rods (Okuma and Shakespeare brands). Toni had the good stuff, Lamiglas.
We hit our first fish immediately at 35 ft on a green hoockie, silver 000 dodger and mealworm. A good sign! But from then on it was tough, but if you worked at it fish are there to be had. Mid-morning I hooked and lost a nice one as the hook came out just short of the net (sorry Toni for the cursing – guess it means I see you as one of the gang). Around noon Toni brought in a nice 14” fish down I think again 35 ft or so on her pink set up. Rseas brought in the brute of the day at 16” sometime late morning. Nate had issues with his surface lines and getting hooks to stick, losing a few trout. We ended the day at 1pm with a trout for Nate’s wife.
All in all, it’s slow fishing and you’ll need to pound the water – but there are fish to be had, and the quality is outstanding! Thanks to Toni and Nate for fishing with me, and thanks to Randy and Karen for helping us film and donating fish to my smoker!
See you on the water.

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