I was going to try my hand at still fishing for kokanee on the 14th. So Sunday after work I ran around gathering all the ingredients to make my chum. Then I had to make the hooks I was going to use and load up the boat.

Alarm goes off and of course I hit snooze a few times. Then I got up and headed to the lake. I got there around 6am and was fishing by 6:30. There were 4 rigs in the lot and we were all still fishing in the same area.

It was an hour before I got my first fish. I had a few bites but never jerked on them...in my head I just said “oh that was a bite.” It never got to my arm.
I was trying out 2 different rods to see which was going to work best. So I would switch out rods. That first fish got so tangled in my line, I had to just cut the line off. So that rod just sat and I got another fish on my Eagle Claw Featherlight. I liked the first rod better so I just tossed out my Wannafish A Lure Glo hook and turned to the other rod to retie it. Looked up to see the yellow rod dancing. I hooked one without any bait on but lost it coming to the surface. "Wow, I am going to do that again." Tossed it out and hooked another that got away. Now the first hour wasn’t so fun but this was! I decided to get the other rod going because it was harder to hook them with the Featherlight.
I got 5 fish, 11-12 inches, between 7:30 and 8:30am. I was anchored in 46 feet of water. We have been in the midst of a heat wave but the clouds came in with thunder and lighting last night. Those clouds stayed until mid day.


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