Kokanee_Slayer and I started fishing about 7am. I lowered a thermometer to 25 feet on the downrigger, it was 40 degrees.
He had been catching kokanee between 17 and 27 feet so we started at 17feet. He was using his go to gear and I started with a Pink Splatter on the downrigger at 27 feet and then stacked a small spoon for a dodger with a Wannafish A Lure Bloody Mary on it at 17 foot. I get a cell phone call from Cami of F24 and as I hung up about 7:30am I get a fish on my top line. K_S nets mine and then he gets one on. We get it in and then I try to bring in the downrigger ball (it has been a while since I have been fishing) I forgot to take the stacker clip off and it grinds up the cable and knocks off the bead and I see that part of the cable has frayed. K_S says it will be ok so we reload everything again but I put the stacker clip away and just long lined my second rod. I changed up a few times and caught a trout on the long lined rod with a Dick Nite orange / copper dodger with a Zray spoon. I let it go. We trolled around and it was 10:30 when K_S line is pulled out of the clip and he gets another kokanee in the boat. He was fishing at 30 feet so I lowered my down to 27 ( I was at 21 feet) while he is getting his in the boat my rod goes down and I have another in the boat caught with a Dick Nite Watermelon dodger and a Orange Thing.
That was all the kokanee we caught. It was a great first outing of the year. Early kokanee!

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