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09/08/2013
66° - 70°
Trolling
Kokanee
Corn
Pink
Mostly Sunny
Dodger
Morning
66° - 70°
09/09/2013
4
844

Saturday I started fishing 7:45am finished 3 hours later with a limit. But 3 were next years fish and 2 this years. It was hard to find any big ones. The ones I brought home I got in about 80 foot of water 32 foot down on the downrigger. I didn’t get any deeper on my stacked cable.

Sunday I started fishing about 7:15am and quit at 10:15 with my 5th. Fog blew in for a little bit first thing in the morning then went away leaving sunny skies.

Once I got to the deep part of the lake I got fish hooked right away but they were all small. I had the Dick Nite Chartreuse hothead paired with the salmon roe Z-ray spoon. The other rod had the Dick Nite Pink spatter with a Wannafish A Lure Pink splatter squiddy. The rod at the top stacked position got 90% of the fish (30-33 feet down). I had the spoon on the top and then I thought I would switch to find out if it was the lure or the position. Conclusion was the position.

After the little ones frenzy wore off within the hour I had to go all over the deep end of the lake trying to find big ones. A few small ones thrown in. I did get five but they were each one at different areas. One I got when I was thinking of leaving close to 10am. I had 42 feet of cable out. I thought I would go into a shallow area at the edge of the lake and I picked up one on the bottom rod... 42 foot down with the spoon in 65 feet of water.

I did send the thermometer down and at 35 feet it was 70 degrees.

I sent the cable as far down as 70 feet but all bites were 42-45 feet cable out with another rod approximate 10 foot above it. Most of the fish came on the top rod. The end score of keepers was 3 Wannafish A Lure and 2 for the Z-ray. But since I had the spoon on top most of the time it hooked the most fish.
I used corn and a Berkeley maggot on the lure while the spoon had nothing.


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Comments

Rob w
9/9/2013 9:58:00 AM
good job, toni. looks like the fish are holding up. look to be in prime condition, yet. should be, maybe for a month...
Smalma
9/9/2013 3:39:00 PM
Toni -
Based on the scale condition of all 5 fish I would say that all 5 are mature fish that will spawn this fall; that is this year fish. Saw a similar range in maturity development on the Stevens fish I caught this AM.

Curt
Toni
9/9/2013 6:42:00 PM
Yes they are all this years fish Smalma. 3 males and 2 females. The ones I didn't keep on Sunday or Saturdays, were small ones that are next years fish. They were much easier to hook than this years fish.
salmonbarry
9/9/2013 10:00:00 PM
Nice report Toni as usual and great info. That Z-ray is a cool spoon and we used that a few years back when fishing Coldwater lake by Mt. Saint Helens and it was the hot lure as we trolled ot the end of the lake where we fly fished for catch and release on those beautiful native trout they hold.
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