To get there at daybreak one should make sure the alarm is set for am not pm! I only woke up a half hour late. I was out fishing about 6am and finished at 9:30am. My plan was to go toward the veterans hospital until I found fish schooling (in the lake) on the fish finder. I did this in 80 feet of water but they didn’t want what I had. So I motored as far as the North launch and turned and went back and kept doing this. I got 3 fish in 3 hours. The first kokanee at 14 inches was at 35 feet down in 82 feet of water on a white squiddy lure I made with a silver blade with the nickel 0/0 dodger, about an hour later a 15 inch was down 16 feet in 63feet of water on a Shasta Sling Blade with a Green Ice Swiss Swing blade and about 45 minutes later 15 ¾ inch koke takes it at 30 feet on a Bahama mamma dodger with the Pink Splatter Squiddy that has a silver blade.
I am reading Kent Cannon’s book “The Kokanee Obsession” and he wrote about a thermometer that shows depth and temp. I got one last week and put it to use today. At 35 feet the water is 50 degrees. At 40 feet it was 49 degrees. The water was calm when I first got there but the wind kicked in about 8:30-9:00am. While my app worked on my phone I was doing 1.3 to 1.6 MPH. There weren’t any clouds and the sun was shining BUT at my house the temperature was 34 this morning. It was cold on the lake and I didn’t take off my 2nd coat until I got to the launch to leave.

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