My best fishing trip ever!!!!

[ElkTalker]

I finally got my pic’s loaded from my Wickiup trip with the boys last week 5/15-18. As every one who was there knows, it was an awesome weekend. It was also my first fishing trip with my new boat, a 1989 Starcraft Chieftain.

The fishing was the best I had ever seen. We landed 162 kokanee in three days of fishing. But we lost about another 100 fish. When I got home I decided that my double hook sets were spaced to far apart so I have spent the last few days retying over 60 spinners and getting ready for the next trip.

Also I want to thank all the boats that were anchored up jigging; it made finding a trolling pattern a lot easer

Good luck ET

[Cliff D.]

Quite the "posse" in that second shot. Glad they, and you had fun !!

[Dullhook]

Thanks for reporting. That's a fine looking boat and an even better looking brood of kids. Great company and lots of kokes makes for a camping trip that's hard to top.

[Stymulator]

very cool Elktalker!, your boys are quite the fishermen!

Looks like a comfortable ride you have as well

Got the smoker fired up yet??

[SalmonNilla]

Sounds like a great trip. You sure you got enough truck to pull that boat?

[moknots]

WTG! Thanks for the report! What great memories you are making for those kids. Looks like a fun boat. Would love to hear some fishing details (water temp, depth to bottom/fish, top lure/bait, attractor, speed).

[ElkTalker]

Originally Posted by moknots

WTG! Thanks for the report! What great memories you are making for those kids. Looks like a fun boat. Would love to hear some fishing details (water temp, depth to bottom/fish, top lure/bait, attractor, speed).

The water temp was 52 on the first day and 54 or so on the last day. All the fish were caught on spinners. I did use an apex for about 30 min with out a bump so I switched back to a spinner.

My blue double blade was the best producer on Friday with over 30 fish on it, but Saturday it sucked eggs. During the middle of the day my pink double spinner worked great. Also a single blade similar to the red, black, and green double spinner in the pic was hot every day.

Scented corn was the trick. Kokanee Special, Garlic, Wizard (corn magic) worked the best. Carp spit never caught a fish and Anis was a very slow producer.

As for depth I caught fish all over the lake. I always trolled 10ft or so off the bottom. So in 30ft of water I fished 20ft with 30 ft of line out behind my downrigger. In 17ft of water I fished 7ft deep with about 60ft of line out. I never fished over 45ft but we did catch fish at that depth.

The only dodgers we used were nickel and watermelon. I tried a sep’s watermelon sidekick dodger and loved it so I just ordered 9 more in other colors.

My speed varied nonstop. But the best strikes were at 1.0 to 1.2. Also trolling perpendicular to the sun seemed to always produce a fish.

Look at the pic of my spinners, the hooks are size 2 and I now feel the hook spread is to far apart so I have retied all my spinners. I hope this improves my landing ratio for my next trip.

Good Luck, ET

[joemomma]

Nice report and good looking spinners, how did that crappie tube work out for ya?

[ElkTalker]

Originally Posted by joemomma

Nice report and good looking spinners, how did that crappie tube work out for ya?

I tried it a couple times with no luck this trip. On other trips it has been the best lure. The times it has worked the best is when I fish it over 50ft.
ET

[joemomma]

Thanks for the reply! Now I don't want ya to go and retie those spinners again, but tie a few up with fine wire dropshot gami's, I have only lost a handfull of fish this year! I believe they make a smaller hole, which shouldn't get to much bigger when they go nut's, and they penetrate better! I use black one's, cause I can't find any red ones yet, and they work great. Give it a try and see what ya think!

[P-ride]

Thanks for the detailed report and sharing tips and pics of your spinners. Looks like you had a great time. I'm gonna have to put Wickiup on my list of lakes to check out!!

[SilverBullets]

WOW! Another outstanding board meeting ! That's some memories those kids will remember for the rest of their life. Nice Job!

[FshnFool]

Nice fish. Way to keep the kids involved.

matt

[Spoiled Daddy]

Elktalker,

We fished Wickiup the same time period you did. Saw you and your crew. Nice boat and it looked like you were having a blast. We tried trolling when the jigging would peter out. We did OK, but not near the success you had. Way to Go!

the Spoiled Daddy

[motojones956]

Nice looking boat I just bought a 1979 20' starcraft. Just curious what year you boat is?

[ElkTalker]

Originally Posted by motojones956

Nice looking boat I just bought a 1979 20' starcraft. Just curious what year you boat is?

Mine is a 1989 with less than 80 hours. The Original owner was an old man who died before ever putting the boat in the water. His family took the boat out on the anniversary of his death for years until one of the kids started using it more, Still not much wear and tear on the boat.
ET

[bwild]

Elktalker,

I don't even fish for kokanee, but the detail of your report was great. Much appreciated by all. And I also tip my hat to you for exposing the kids to this great sport. Awesome!!!

[wanafish]

Well done! Thanks for sharing. Will be up there the first week of June for a day or two.

[fish junky]

Nice fish and pics Elktalker. You use alot of stuff that we use. Have you ever used any of Kokaneemarts stuff. Really some good stuff and catches alot of fish.

[ElkTalker]

Originally Posted by fish junky

Nice fish and pics Elktalker. You use alot of stuff that we use. Have you ever used any of Kokaneemarts stuff. Really some good stuff and catches alot of fish.

I have ordered from Kokaneemart a few times. All my glow beads are from them and now I see they have uv beads so I guess I need to order from them again.

ET

[driven2fish]