Well, I was only about 1 ½ hours late from my plans to American Lake this morning. It wasn’t my partner, grandson William’s, fault. He was up at 5:30am. I was just too tired. So we got on the lake between 8-8:30am and we left around 11am with 4 each for a total of 8 Kokanee. 2 of the koke’s were 15 inch and turning. My 4 year old grandson not only catches fish, he will net my fish. The only thing is the fish had better be pretty active or he wants to go because it is taking to long.
Now only one fish was taken below 20 feet. William got 3 on his Cars pole with 1/4 oz weight. The 1 at 23 foot and then the rest we caught at 13-15 foot on the downriggers. This time I did not pay very much attention to how deep the lake was. I think it was 50-80 feet deep. We caught the fish in different areas east and west of the island and north of the WDFW launch. We used a watermelon and a yellow with red splatter Sepp’s dodgers, one yellow on white sling dodger with some Wannafish A Lure new beaded lures and a Green Ice with the usual shoepeg corn with green maggots. It was cloudy with the promise of the sun peeking through. We were going 1.4-1.7 mpg for trolling speed.

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