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Grant County, WA

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08/13/2016
71° - 75°
Trolling
Kokanee
Corn
Orange
Sunny
Dodger
Morning
66° - 70°
08/15/2016
5
1713

Well I spent the morning with the family out on Deep Lake and caught our limit of Kokanee. For some reason we lost about half of what we caught, but I am still learning the tricks of the trade and this is only my second time to try Kokanee fishing. I am using Kokanee rods with very soft tips and being gentle when reeling them in so not to tear out the mouth. I think next time I will use a treble hook on the trailing end to see if I can keep them on the line.
We were trolling at 40-50 FOW at 1.4-1.8 mph. It seemed that the Kokanee were hitting everything we threw at them, but they seemed to prefer the corn with Graybill’s Kokanee scent. Fishing was a little bit slower for us and took us 3 hours to get our limit. Most of the fish kept were in the 12” range.

Side note, I have a lot of Kokanee egg sacks that I am curing, has anybody tried this or used them for fishing bait? I figure there the same as Sockeye eggs and are the perfect size portions for fishing Kings or maybe Steelhead.


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hewesbob
8/15/2016 4:26:00 PM
Good to see your back after the Kokes, is the meat still holding good and firm on them?
Chasinchrome 509
8/15/2016 11:31:00 PM
its great to see you & the fam out stacking up the silversided slim rockets.Losing a few is the norm when fishing feisty kokes,the treble as a stinger might help to keep them hooked up.Glad to see your report,Tri citys not far off,watch the counts.can start fishing on Thursday the 18th.Ill be in touch.
Walleye Be Damn
8/16/2016 7:19:00 AM
The meat is great, we grilled them and they were fantastic.
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