Launched at Loon by 7, fishing by 7:15. Water temp was still warm at 68. We started trolling right out of the gate, I had brought my brother and good friend with me today. My brother being new to kokanee fishing, or downriver fishing for that matter. My friend Greg and I have done quite a bit of fishing, so I was driving the boat and letting them hammer fish, or so I thought. We used a lot of my home tied stuff again, the sockeye style wedding rings and squids. It took us a solid hour to get the first hit, we were marking schools but not a lot of biters. The first take down was on leaded line, pink squid with fast limit dodger. I soon realized this was not a kokanee, as this one was really fighting back, Greg hauled in this tanker rainbow. She weighed in at 4.05lb on the digital scale, that was pretty fun. We had a few more hit and misses, and then decided to head across the lake North of Granite pointe and fish the shelf out from the public beach. Started finally getting consistent bites, put a few in the box. We were running out of time due to family BBQ obligations so we trolled back across and started to troll back to the public launch going south to north and staying between 65-75 ft of was we started hitting fish left and right, still managing to lose most of them but, that is totally fine we got the newbie downriver trained and hooks trained so next time he will be on top of it! Ended up with just 9 keepers and the 1 rainbow. I was still trolling in the 1.2-1.5 range and keeping my leaders between 16-20".

Mike

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