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04/13/2014
36° - 40°
Trolling
Kokanee
Corn
Gold
Sunny
Dodger
Morning
04/15/2014
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American Lake report for Apr 13, 14 2014

I went out with Glen and Cami of F24 with Jim at 6 am and we had to quit just before 10am because I had to go to work. They caught 3 kokanee and 4 or 5 rainbows. I had one bite but it was a 100 percent conversion into my icebox. I had Glen put bait on my hook (cigar smoke from 4-5 report) but that didn’t help at all.
I wanted to make kokanee pizza with the fish I caught. Jim, Glen and Cami’s guest gave me one of his kokanee for my neighbor at the end of the morning after I told them how much they like kokanee. Later when I asked her if she wanted one she said “is the Pope catholic?”

So why is it that I couldn’t catch more kokanee using the same lure, same depth, same bait, same boat and same set back. Well I don’t know!!! How much difference does a dodger make?

So I went out in my 12 footer on the 14th of April. I had one in the boat after about 15 minutes of fishing. After about an hour I changed the lure on my top (stacked) rig and within 5 minutes I had a trout on it. A bit after that I got my second kokanee. I left about 9 after starting around 6:30am. My battery doesn’t seem to last as long as it use to.

Both days were sunny and calm. Sunday the 13th there were a lot more boats on the water. The air temp, at start, was about 38. The fish were caught at 17 feet down the first day. The next day I caught them at 27 and 30 foot down on the downrigger. They were about 14 inches long and 4 inches wide. All kokanee both days were caught on Wannafish A Lures Gilded Lily. When Glen told me they had lots of missed fish on Saturday I tied up Gilded Lilies with treble hooks. I used Dick Nite dodgers. My hook to boat ratio was 100%.


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Comments

Gonefishing
4/15/2014 1:09:00 PM
Fish Pizza? Oh well. Nice report so looking forward to my friend having the nerve to take his boat out and go Kokanee fishing --- may have bribe him a lot.

Anyways Toni I was checking my Facebook page a couple days ago and Dick Night Spoons shared a picture you posted... so good job.
Fishman_Kuzan
4/15/2014 5:31:00 PM
Those are fat kokes, good job!
salmonbarry
4/15/2014 6:39:00 PM
Yummy! Will have to tell my customers about this one! Nice job again Toni
rseas
4/15/2014 7:11:00 PM
Grilled kokanee pizza is awesome! Way to keep at it Toni.
afk
4/15/2014 9:26:00 PM
Good lookin' pizza!
Idstud
4/16/2014 4:29:00 AM
Nice catch your making me hungry for kok pizza at 4am!
kokanee_slayer
4/16/2014 6:19:00 AM
Nice Work Toni!!!!
solducsteve
4/16/2014 4:09:00 PM
Excellent pics , Try grilled cheese with smoked kokanee sometime....... . I would give you 20 bucks for a slice of that pizza .
DjButler
4/17/2014 10:08:00 PM
Toni are you the kokanee whisperer or something. Wow, never fails to catch fish <')))))))><
ricker
4/18/2014 8:40:00 AM
Toni eats fish pizza the night before she go's fishing
Fish Dawg
4/19/2014 11:19:00 PM
Nice fish...looks like you put the to good use too!
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