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I went fishing at Summit Lake with a fishing buddy this morning. We got there about 6:15am and the weather was overcast, no breeze, and the surface water temperature was 67. Fishing buddy, Kokanee_Slayer, was getting bites and he got a couple nice sized trout right off. I got a few bites that didn’t stick. Fishing was slow! We fished until noon. I did get 5 kokanee and Slayer got 2 trout and a kokanee. There were only a few boats out and a couple of kyat’s until 11am and then the jet skis, water skiers, and fast boats came out to play. I think the downriggers were from 40-60 of wire for catching fish in 53-90 feet of water. I used a lot of different gear with the two combo in the gear/fish picture caught the fish,
All 5 of my kokanee had bugs in their gills. One had 2 of them on the sides at the base of its dorsal fin. One had a clipped adipose fin.

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goodtimesfishing

7/29/2012 7:46:00 PM

looks like the top and bottom fish both are missing adipose, but could just be the angle. good job on the kokanee

Toni

7/29/2012 8:23:00 PM

It was just the angle. Only the 10 inch fish had a clipped fin. I was fortunate to get my limit.

ravdakot

7/30/2012 11:15:00 AM

That was me in the yellow kayak. Between my buddy in the grey kayak and myself we got 5 kok's and released a handful of trout each. One of my koks came on the downrigger at 45' in 90 FOW on a silver 000 dodger, 8" of leader, and a pink hoochie. was running a pink splatter back dick night dodger with a red wedding ring on a surface line. I swapped the two (hoochie on the surface, WR on the DR) and immeidately got 3 kok's on the hoochie. My buddy got his on a green wedding ring behind a silver 000 dodger 45' down on the downrigger. We switched over to small mouth and after a good 20 or so of those guys we called it a day. All our kok's had bugs in the gills too.

Toni

7/30/2012 2:06:00 PM

ravdakot we launched right after you. Thank you for the report. I had wondered where you went since your car was still in the parking lot when we left.

Larry Phillips from WDFW says" The bugs are copepods. They are common in Summit…..difficult to say what the effect is on the fish but they don’t seem to affect growth or condition. Some years they are worse than others. "

ravdakot

7/31/2012 12:30:00 PM

Yeah, we were at the other end of the lake from where we last saw you guys. I noticed the copepods on the trout I caught too. I didn't pay much attention to the small mouth. Just C&R'd those guys without really looking them over. I'm sure you'll see us out there again or on American sometime. If you ever see a yellow pedal kayak with Karma written down the stern come say hi.

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