The weather yesterday was very unsettled with storm fronts moving through one after another. I called my nephew to see if he wanted to go in the afternoon since it was opening day after all! We have always gone on opening day but never early to fight the crowds. As my father always said "those fish live there son"

We got a VERY late start arriving at the lake at 6:45pm. Poles in a little after 7 with two on the wire at 25' & 35' and two on leaded one at three colors and one at four. various kokanee dodgers and spinners were baited with cured pink corn and pink maggots. Had to throw the whole arsenal at them given the short time left till dark.

Caught the first Koke in ten minutes at three colors...a little guy sent back to grow up for next year. The next one was a few minutes later on the four color leaded outfit. A little bigger and really tangled up in the hooks so in the cooler it went.

We trolled for quite a while with no hits so I changed up the three color lead to a Mack's Double D Dodger and whamo something whacked at it....then whamo again and it was fish on. No dink kokanee here! Brother in law (yep he went too) got the honors and says this one is a good one. I knew from the way it hit that it was a trout. We got it in the boat and it was a beauty at 3# 4oz.

Big black clouds coming so we headed back to the dock just before dark. All in all not too bad for a hasty late opener.
Tight lines everybody. Off to Chelan next weekend for the Washington lakes get together and some kokanee fishing with my friend Fish Dawg from the Seattle area.

ridgeratt

4/26/2015 8:48:00 AM

Great report Al!
When I went past Loon yesterday around noon only saw 1 boat trolling out south of Granite. Good luck on Chelan next week.

afk

4/26/2015 11:42:00 AM

Lookin' forward to seein 'ya at Chelan!

hewesfisher

4/27/2015 7:50:00 AM

Good to see a report from you on your "home" waters. Have a good time at Chelan. :-)

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