I launched at 5:15 AM and headed down lake on the south side. I trolled two downriggers - one at 40-60 feet and the other at 25-40 feet. My mission was to track down the kokanees and see what colors and depths they were hitting.
On the DR running at 25-40ft I ran through all of my pink dodger/lure combos with scented corn and only attracted a couple of small rainbows.
On the DR running at 40-60ft I ran my limited selection of green, purple and watermelon dodger/lure combo with corn. Green = zero fish. On Purple I caught one 8" rainbow that I kept (since I was using bait and didn't have any trout eye patches in my tackle box to put on him) and one 8" kokanee - both at about 60ft. On a watermelon sling blade and watermelon squid I hooked 6 kokanee and boated one. I guess I was too energetic this morning and ripped the lips off the 5 that got away (all 5 must have been 20 inches plus - lol).
Two rainbow (one was 15" and the other was 17") came knocking on the DR at 60ft. Both wanted to come to my house for dinner, so how could I refuse? They are now currently cleaned and wrapped in foil to be put on the barbeque.
I was off the water by 11:00 am. It was a cloudy, breezy morning which was fine with me.

the doc

6/11/2015 7:30:00 PM

summit is my old lake of origin. in the late 70's, to mid 80's, it was the norm, that the fish would be cookie cutter 14.5", by the forth of july. the lake has a cyclic copopod problem. parasites that bleed out the kokes. and no cure in sight., i suspect, that more has happend to this lake. for even with the cope problem, it was never this bad. ill call larry. see what i can find out.

buc

6/12/2015 11:19:00 AM

yep was there last summer caught a few kokes with uncle the fish where soft and some kind of leach or whatever was all over em we did not eat. sounds like early is best, hope they are good eating, we went inn late july so?

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