New Melones kokes and bass Tuesday May 12th

Will be at the ramp at sunrise. Will troll for kokes by the dam for a few hours then after limits, or skunk whichever comes first  I will go chase bass. Company and carpool welcome. Leaving Riverbank at 5 am sharp if anyone wants to throw their yak on top of my car and hitch a ride up.

Jeff

Hey jeff, is there a smallmouth population there?

Boy, that sounds perfect.... just a week sooner than I can cut loose 

Good luck!

Ben

Hey jeff, is there a smallmouth population there?

There is a smallmouth population but not very abundant. There are redeye bass there but don't get very big but hight and look almost exactly like smallmouth. Ive caught a bunch of them there

Out the door! Wish me luck! Got the new fishfinder installed and a new arsenal of koke tackle. Be home later with report and pics!

Jeff

good luck.  What are you doing to get down to the kokanee?  Downrigger, weights, leadcore?

Wish I was coming with you bud, we had fun at berryessa.  Glad to be back at work today.  Let me know how you did.  I may make a run Sunday, I have to take the kids back to Stockton to their mom, so fishing in the morning would be great.  Let me know.

My daughter and I went up today as well. Was that you by the spillway? We were in a red two seater trolling for trout. The kokes ended up being shy by the spillway and since we lauched at Glory Hole we didn't want to go down to the dam.We had a few take downs, lost one at the boat and boated 1 koke and 1 rainbow. The rainbow was a nice 3 1/2lber! It put up a great fight and went airborn once before we netted him. I'll try and post some pics in a few.