Stalmass
3/10/2015 9:15:00 PMHey widebear......heading to LR in the morning. These smaller fish are a good sign for next year! If you don't mind.....how far above Keller? I am taking my 7 year old daughter up for a couple days, but staying down in Grand Coulee and fishing out of Spring Canyon so that is a bit of a run for us. Have you been in Swawilla lately......seems to be ghost town this year so far??
BDA
3/11/2015 9:45:00 AMGood job on the Kok`s. Glad you too Connie out for a boat trip. I was a nice day for it.
onerka007
3/11/2015 8:22:00 PMAwesome catch and I love it when my bride joins me. I haven't had success with the hootchies on the surface so begs the question - did you get the kokes on the surface or down riggers?
onerka007
3/11/2015 8:22:00 PMAwesome catch and I love it when my bride joins me. I haven't had success with the hootchies on the surface so begs the question - did you get the kokes on the surface or down riggers?
widebear
3/12/2015 5:28:00 AM007
At the start I couldn't even get my lines out. Then nothing on top. Started marking fish all of a sudden at 35, 40' deep and both riggers went down. However I always have a hootchie on a rigger but it may only be 5' deep and it caught fish too. Have no idea how many long line releases we had but a bunch. Been PM'ing another and he is seeing exact same thing down at Spring Canyon.
At the start I couldn't even get my lines out. Then nothing on top. Started marking fish all of a sudden at 35, 40' deep and both riggers went down. However I always have a hootchie on a rigger but it may only be 5' deep and it caught fish too. Have no idea how many long line releases we had but a bunch. Been PM'ing another and he is seeing exact same thing down at Spring Canyon.
onerka007
3/12/2015 10:56:00 AMThanks WB! Yeah, that's a good time to use those noodle "Tica Kokanee" rods. I usually don't like to use them because I like to feel the fish but will make the sacrifice to make sure we have a couple for the grill/smoker. Sure hope these kokes stay around a season or 2. They were 9-10" in Jan and now 12-16" & chunky... incredible growth. Imagine the size of them this fall! Glad to hear you did a get a 19" koke, there's still a few lurking around.