Today was the day I went out without the experts from yesterday.
Kim (pinkpole) came out with me. We met around 6am and I don’t know what time we started fishing or what time we quit but I believe we put in 5 hours at the lake. I used the big motor for a bit before we started fishing and then afterwards.
I don’t really remember how deep we were or how and what was caught since Kim was learning how to operate the downrigger and I was still learning the boat. Meaning I was preoccupied. I spent most of the morning operating the handle on the kicker with my left hand thinking that it just wasn’t as comfortable as yesterday. Then I switched hands and found that this is the right way for me to do it.
Kim had brought an Apex lure which she got a kokanee on. But when my red hooks were getting the fish she switched to red hooks. We did well for a while with the bare hooks but even they stopped interesting the kokes. Then we broke out my usual lures. With these we only got a couple more.
We called it a day with 9 kokanee.


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