Ron Stube was nice enough to bring along Nick Amato and come out to fish with me. The kokanee proved to be finicky. We worked the face of Mill Bay managing to lose 2 fish in the first hour. I had just told them, we'd make a move because the fish wouldn't bite, when lo and behold, they bit. We got seven and lost another 4 in a half hour. About then Jeff called from other boat saying he was into a pretty good laker bite by the Yacht Club so we picked up, switched downrigger releases and motored on up. We got a fish or 2 then tripled up and finished with a great pile of fish. Mike Nelson went fishing with Jeff and stacked the Lakers up.

We caught the Kokanee along the face of Mill Bay in water from 50 to 100 feet deep. We caught one fish at 12 feet deep, but most were from 45 to 65 feet deep. We pulled mostly orange mini cha cha squidders on short leaders behind Double D Dodgers at 1.2 to 1.4 mph. We baited the little squidders with Yellow Fire Corn. Jeff got a couple of Kokanee on the same kind of rigging off of Rocky Pt. before chasing lakers up at the Yacht Club.

We fished some Worden Lures T4 Purple Glow Flatfish, Silver Horde's Kingfisher Lite spoons in Chartreuse Splatterback glow and a Mack's Cha Cha Squidder baited with Northern Pikeminnow for the lakers. We caught fish in depths of 260 to 305 feet. Speed was 1.5 mph. As always, we kept our presentations tight to the bottom.

The cap of the day was actually the beginning. After Jeff prepped the boat for Mike, he threw some Firebait out the back of the boat at Mill Bay and got a nice 19.5" triploid Rainbow.

The weather stayed warm and calm even though the weather report called for blustery winds. Another beautiful day in paradise!

Anton Jones - Darrell and Dad's Family Guide Service
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