This report is for 8/14 and 8/15 both nights made the long drive up from the house in Okanogan. It's 17 miles to the boat launch. Kinda ruff I tell you. But first we have to stop at the state Park and let the kiddos blow off some steam. Fire up the BBQ and get our brat on for dinner.

Hit the water both nights around 5 pm. First night we trolled up by where we had hit them the night before, and I we got one on the downrigger and couldn't get any more to bite there so we headed down by the rope swing and hit one right across from the launch.
Now this is day 2 on the downrigger and I just hit 2 and didn't drag them around like I did the first day. Little longer lead to the release helped a lot. So we got right in front of the rope swing and all hell breaks loose. The downrigger goes off so my wife and boat operator goes into fish on mode turns a bit and goes in to neutral to let the long lines drop into the bite zone. I lose the downrigger fish and am putting my special home made purple garlic krill corn on when one of the longline poles goes off! I watch my two young anglers swing into action as my seven year old sets the hook and fights the biggest kokanee of the day, and 11 year old one scoops it with the net! As soon as they get it over the side rail I'm dropping the next pole on the downrigger and off we go again, the pole is down 30 seconds and it goes off!!! The bite was hot and we had a absolute blast! This was our Sunday night! Every fish came between 30 and 25 feet on the rigger.

Now Monday night. BBQ at the park, blowe off steam. Launch around 5pm upper lake. This time it's strait out to the hot spot from last night. Had the opportunity to take with Lance from Mack's Lure about downrigger stacking and got some great advice and was able to stack on my downrigger. Worked great but was a bit time consuming with the hot bite so I went down to one rod on the downrigger. I will stack again once I get a shuttle hawk from Shasta tackle (Now owned by Mack's) less time with the ball.out of the water when stacking. While I had the rods stacked and just before the bite really turned on it hooked a solid fish that popped the line off the clip. My first thought was small mouth. We when I got it up to the surface it was a beautiful non clipped carry over or native bow. Nice size fish. Great fight on the light kokanee gear. Then the kokanee went nuts. Marked a lot of fish at like 70 feet in 90 fow. So went down with the rigger. 15 minutes nothing. So I pulled it back up to 30 and I still had my hand on it when we got the bite. What a great time! Fished till dusk.
Tight lines

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