Billy Chinook Kokanee

FallRiverGuy · 04-07-2003, 08:23 AM

I met up with a fellow Ifisher Slamminkokes and Sunday we fished BillY Chinook hard. We kept 26 Kokanee but lost about 30. We were jigging but the fish were not hitting hard so the standard lift the fish out of the water and in the boat was not working well. If we would have wanted to deal with getting treble hooks out of a net we most likely would have got our 50 fish.

At good day on the water and BBQ candy too!

(Billy not Bill Chinook; an unintentional zipper lip location :blush: )

[ 04-09-2003, 09:14 AM: Message edited by: FallRiverGuy ]

1pump · 04-07-2003, 12:17 PM

How deep were they? Were you fishing the Metolius arm?

SlamminKokes · 04-07-2003, 12:51 PM

Thanks for the fine cold day on the lake FRG! I think a rubber net is in order real quick!! The fish were all over the lake in all depths! We did fish the Metolius, all of it actually!

FRG, did your mouth start drooling as you were cleaning those fish like mine did??Thanks again, we will need to hook up again soon!!

SlamminKokes · 04-07-2003, 12:53 PM

BTW, wanna buy some minnows? :smile: lol, Just kidding, im sure theyll find their place for me when the water warms and im anchored in 12 feet of water!!

Fish Hawg · 04-07-2003, 01:28 PM

If you dont mind me asking where were you fishing what lake i fished lake merwin saterday and big zippo only 2 squaws Thanks Quick Fisher

FallRiverGuy · 04-07-2003, 01:34 PM

1pump,

They were through out the Metolius arm. Most were caught surface jigging and few right on the bottom. We motored around until we found jumping fish, stopped to see if any biters were there.

SK, All but two of the fish had blood red meat when I filetted them. Some very fine looking fish indeed. Just throw those minnows my way. One day they will be the hot jig.

Fish Hawg · 04-07-2003, 01:51 PM

[img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/idea.gif[/img] what kind of jigs work best for kokanee sorry about the frist stupid ? Quick Fisher

FallRiverGuy · 04-07-2003, 02:55 PM

Did not see it so guess I missed the "stupid question?". As far as I can tell from how well SK did, buzz bumbs work best. SK has fished it for years and he likes Buzzs bombs. Some have very good luck with Gibbs Minnows. They did not work very well for us that day.

SlamminKokes · 04-09-2003, 02:39 AM

I basically use a dark red buzz bomb. I carry fingernail polish in my tackle box and thats basically my go to color!! Red might get outfished for an hour or two, but its definitely the most consistant color ive found!! btw Quickfisher, we fished Lake Billy Chinook!