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I've lived in this area my entire 49 years, and had never fished Ki until today. HO-LEE-SMOKES what a day. I lost count at well over 40 fish landed. If I continue with days like this I will need to invest in a counter.

Somewhat late start, maybe on the lake and fishing by 8:30. Having never been on the lake before, I pedaled around to get the lay of the lake, depths, and more importantly, find where the fish are! Dropped both line in the water and started zig-zagging around the lake looking for the area and depth I needed to fish at. It didn't take me long and I quickly realized I was marking little anywhere except for when I was in 80-32 feet of water. I marked lots of fish right near bottom at those lake depths, not much showed up anywhere else. So I dropped both lines down to 24-25 feet, and immediately started getting into fish after fish after fish.

Today I ran Elgin Fishing God's Tooth Spoons, no dodger, nothing else. maybe a 5 foot leader to a duo lock snap which attaches to the God's Tooth, and makes for easy, fast pattern change-outs. I didn't need to do much changing. I ran the Frog pattern on 1 line, and the Brown Trout pattern on the other, both on fast action (right out of the package). Both lures got hammered repeatedly, but for some reason after about an hour, they stopped hitting the Brown Trout patter completely. Changed that one out with a 50/50 Gold, and that line immediately started getting love again. Just an amazing day. I honestly believe I could have fished til sundown and would have not stopped catching fish. 1 brief odd 30 minutes lull in the action where I only landed a couple of fish, otherwise I didn't go much more than a few minutes without a fish on. I would literally go over some marks, and by the time I counted to 5 one of my lines would be bouncing. I am pretty sure my best day numbers wise for trout, and the awesome thing is that it's a lake the gets referred to being "fished out" by now. I've seen a ton more marks on the sonar before, but it sure felt like today the God's Tooth enticed a bite out of every mark I saw. I guess I made every mark count!

Video shows a ton of fish I landed today. I kept 5 in the end. 3 fish during the scrum were bleeding, 1 I released by saw it belly up so I went ahead and netted/bonked it, then just bagged my last 2 on the way out. Fun fishing being able to call your shots.

JoshH

10/11/2017 10:19:41 PM

Small typo, fish were in 28-32 feet of water, not 80-32 :)

Maltby

10/11/2017 10:31:11 PM

I really enjoy your posts and videos.

JoshH

10/11/2017 10:35:29 PM

Thank you! I appreciate the compliment.

Armando Cortez

10/12/2017 9:46:05 AM

Hey! You're in my spot! (jk)

I've had several days like this on Lake Ki using the Eligin God's Tooth in both pink and frog colors. Another lure that works well is an orange, spinner type fly, that's made by an outfit (the name escapes me) up in Stanwood. Fishing that south shoreline has produced multiple 20-30 fish days using those two lures. I had to chuckle a bit to hear you say, "there's a fish on that one too!" cuz fishing two rods on that lake with the God's Tooth lures has left my head spinning more than once. Looks like I'm gonna have to make a few more trips there before it closes at the end of the month!

Great video!

RJD

10/12/2017 3:10:23 PM

Stanwood fishing lure's name is ???????? I use to buy and fish a wicked willies bladed fly is that the one you are talking about? I haven't found any recently. Thanks for the info. And Great reports and Vids.

JoshH

10/12/2017 5:53:51 PM

I spent more time reeling in fish and trying to get my lines back in the water than I did actually fishing. Fun little lake for sure.

uplandsandpiper

10/12/2017 2:13:11 PM

Nice! Hobie fishing is the best kind of fishing.

JoshH

10/12/2017 5:55:29 PM

Yes it is! Anytime I launch or and pulling out if someone else is there they always want to check out the Hobie. People are always shocked at what you can do with them. I have a blast in the thing.

ElginFishing

10/12/2017 5:15:18 PM

Awesome job on your first fishing trip to Ki! Great report and really enjoyed the video that puts the amount of fish you caught into perspective!!! :)

JoshH

10/12/2017 5:56:18 PM

My shoulder hurts from all of that reeling :)

MotoBoat

10/13/2017 2:04:31 PM

Prior to opening day, this lake is planted with small sized Trout. This late in the season I would hope fish were all over 12". Josh, what were the range in fish size that you caught?

JoshH

10/13/2017 2:31:38 PM

Fish were 12-14 inches on that day. I went out the next day in the rain and just caught my 5 and headed in, those fish were 12 - 14 inches again with one hold over of 16 1/2 - it was a mature male with mature male parts, looked like it could try spawning within weeks.

MotoBoat

10/13/2017 2:04:33 PM

Prior to opening day, this lake is planted with small sized Trout. This late in the season I would hope fish were all over 12". Josh, what were the range in fish size that you caught?

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