left spokane at 2am and had both downriggers fishing by 6am. First and only fish at 645am. I counted 42 boats and I probably only saw 2 dozen fish caught. I'm sure more were caught but even the guide boats weren't catching many. I fished mostly the upper side of where the okanogan comes in and most boats eventually ended up there. I used pink dyed shrimp on top hook. Tried cha cha's, mini squid, double whammy and the fish I did get came on a pre tied walleye rig that had red beads, red hooks and I put a red smilley blade on it. Unless it was just a slow morning the fun might be over till next year for this fishery.

stryker17

8/7/2012 8:03:00 PM

not quite, fishery is still strong, lots of fish, that said not for me............ hit the water at 5;20 we are staying at the city r v park, first line in the water at 5;35 first hit 30 seconds later lost ............................... nothing again till 3;15 lost that one also..................... next door neighbor got 6, slow day for him guys in the know are still getting good fish yesterday he got 2 kings and 7 sockeyes.......... really knows what to do............ really hot and no wind, will try again tomorrow.........

G-Man

8/8/2012 11:40:00 AM

If the bite goes off try different sized flashers/dogers to induce a strike. We found that the fish were more prone to hit the 0 sized dogers in the morning and the preferred the smaller 00, 000 and even 0000 size later in the day.

deltadog

8/10/2012 3:08:00 PM

I really need some pointers.....I have made three trips down there with only one fish to show. Been running pink hoochies, double hook, beads and smiley blade for sockeye. All different Brads baits, cut plug and superbaits for chinook.
. All with different sized dodgers. Using cured pink and red coon tail shrimp as tipper. Whats my jinx? Fished from 5;00 until 10:30 without a single bump today. Very frustrating.....

Why2Fish

8/12/2012 1:48:00 PM

We have not dialed in the chinook, but the sockeye have all come on small pink beads with shrimp chunk, small smile blade, 9" leader, slooow troll, 15-22ft lure depth at any bottom depth less than 45. Mostly above uppermost pump

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