East Lake Saturday [Archive]

Thehunter

06-07-2007, 11:17 AM

I have a drift boat with no motor on it. I love to row around and see if i can catch some fish. I have divers, wedding rings, Kokonee Killers. Any suggest for the best way for me to fish from my drift boat on East lake would be great. I was looking at fishing it on Saturday morning. Any help or Suggestion?

Thanks

LuckyStrike

06-07-2007, 08:36 PM

Hunter, before I got my motor boat, I used a driftboat up at East and Paulina. I have found that it can be a definite plus not to have a motor.

I caught my biggest koke out of a driftboat by myself. In those days I used banana weights (2-3oz) dodgers (small silver/brass) and wedding rings (green or red) with a piece of white corn (shoepeg).

I think if you put in at the campground on the south shore and row over to the rocks and back pulling a dodger and a green wedding ring with a piece of nightcrawler. U could also use frog flatfish, dicknite in silver or white/red. Kokanee killers also work well in purple haze, pink UV. Kokanee kandy in purple/blue and pink.

You could also try in front of the lodge. Go out about 60 yards and follow the shore to the north and out in front of the lodge. The main thing is troll slowwww. Hit the oars, then wait, watch your tip and look for a slow thump.

If you don't have electronics, ask at the lodge what depth. I would start with about 20 pulls. Increase 5 pulls if nothing happens at 20.

Basically, tip your lures with shoepeg corn for kokanee, for rainbow/browns tip lures with worms, atlantics-flies.

Due to the STS article last year, I experimented with my own wedding rings. Pink, blue, char/green, red all worked. That was fun coming up with different colors. Even mixed some up.:twocents:

LS