Doc_Rhen
08-17-2009, 08:49 AM
We went for a couple hours on Saturday. One of the folks on the boat did not have a tribal permit and liked bass fishing anyway so we went up the crooked river arm and gave it a shot. The bass seemed to have dissappeared. We fished for an hour before I figured out that they had moved deep. We finally caught a few but nothing like the past couple of outings. We tried trolling for kokes a little but nothing was showing up on the screen and nothing was hitting our presentations.
Sunday was primarily a trip to sort out some issues that I had with the autopilot. I had forgotten my book the previous day and the goofy thing was steering backward and of course completely confusing itself when it tried to hold a course. So after I sorted that out we figured we had an hour before we had to leave so we ran up the Metolius arm. As we rounded the corner where we could see where river and lake water met, we could tell the kokanee were staging based on the 15-20 boats converged in the area. As we located an opening in the floatilla and dropped anchor we could see kokes jumping everywhere. Four of us fished a little less than an hour and caught 14 fish. Only one seemed to be losing its scales, a couple had parasites and we caught 12 bucks to 2 hens, which I would guess means that we were getting mostly agression/reaction strikes. Pink and white gibbs worked well but I also did very well with a White and pink buzz bomb tipped with red Firecorn. Just before we were about to leave I looked down into the water a little more closely and noticed that what I thought was the bottom was actually moving. The fish were so closely packed together that I had initially mistaken the raft of fish for the bottom.
Sunday was primarily a trip to sort out some issues that I had with the autopilot. I had forgotten my book the previous day and the goofy thing was steering backward and of course completely confusing itself when it tried to hold a course. So after I sorted that out we figured we had an hour before we had to leave so we ran up the Metolius arm. As we rounded the corner where we could see where river and lake water met, we could tell the kokanee were staging based on the 15-20 boats converged in the area. As we located an opening in the floatilla and dropped anchor we could see kokes jumping everywhere. Four of us fished a little less than an hour and caught 14 fish. Only one seemed to be losing its scales, a couple had parasites and we caught 12 bucks to 2 hens, which I would guess means that we were getting mostly agression/reaction strikes. Pink and white gibbs worked well but I also did very well with a White and pink buzz bomb tipped with red Firecorn. Just before we were about to leave I looked down into the water a little more closely and noticed that what I thought was the bottom was actually moving. The fish were so closely packed together that I had initially mistaken the raft of fish for the bottom.