Thursday morning Ken arrived and we quickly hooked my boat to his truck and headed north, the long trip went by quick with all the talking and a stop for lunch on the way north. As soon as we crossed the border the air was think with smoke all the way to our destination. When we arrived we where told there where 2 lighting caused fires, we dumped off our bags at the motel and headed to the lake. Just as we launched you could see the smoke coming across the lake like morning fog. We fished till almost dark with 0 fish to the boat. Friday up at 5 am to be on the water at first light, the marks on the fish finder where far and few between . This was not looking like the Trophy lake I have been use to. Finally
some marks of big Lakers hanging on top of a high spot on the lake bottom. Kens says looks like they might be spawning , so after all the hours of nothing I changed out to my copper line rod . Second pass over the hump and fish on,
came up with a respectable 18lb Laker with a mouth full of Sisco Kid Wrangler. We crossed the hill top so many times we ran off the school sitting on top. The next morning same routine , a whole lot of hours of nothing . Ken drops down to with in 5' off the bottom , after a few hundred feet Ken says fish on and come up with a 4 to 5 lb MacKinaw. Next day we picked up lots of marks and nothing wanted to play. Ken was boarded so set up a Kokanee rod with a peanut on the hooks for bait. After some more hours of nothing he started to feed the ducks and seagulls . With two fish to the boat in four days was not a great fish experience but a great time to hang with a friend. Don't mind saying this was my hardest fishing trip up north in some years
Nice report. Great smoke picts! I've had the same problem up there, I can find the fish but they all seem to have lockjaw. Hopefully as the water cools off the bite will come back!
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I like BIG fish, I can not lie!!!!
The biggest problem right now is there in the spawn mood. Two weeks the fishing will be off the hook.
If you're fishing for kokes two weeks after they're "in the spawn mode" they will be completely "turned" with most up in the creeks. Unless you want to fish for next years dinks.
What rod/reel setup do you use for your copper line setup? I was thinking of picking up some of the 45 lb line for a deep trolling alternative to the downriggers.
Sweeper
I run 3 different copper rod set ups.
A. 600'
B 400'
C. 200'
I run it off my planer boards as well as a rod down the chute. My rods are Okuma Blue Diamond Dipsy rods with Penn 340GTI reels. Each reel has 30lb braid for backing and I run 50' leader on each. Hope this helps you out
Crescent & Odell 9-24 to 9-27
Jimmy
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