Bass lake

Well seeing all the Kokanee reports on here, and every body saying how good the taste, I figured why not switch it up and specifically target them I've never caught one in my life so I figured how hard can it be. Well $40 dollars worth of hoochies, bugs and dodgers later I load up the truck and head to bass lake. Well as it turns out after peddling 6 miles and trying every color and combination possible I say screw it, I'm just gonna target rainbows instead, there easy so I rig up flashers and put on a red wedding ring and start to head back towards we're I launched. Well not even 2 minutes later the pole starts twitching so instant to real it in and wow this fish is a acrobat, this is pretty cool well I get it up to the yak and what do you know it's a Kokanee. Well over the next hour or so I hook up with 5 kokes "only landed three"  and one rainbow, so all in all it turned out to be a great day after all and  I think I'm hooked on these Kokanee, man there so much fun to catch.

Nice fish, good size kokes at that.

Ryan

He'll ya way to get em!!

Nice catch Joe,
Looks like you had a great day ... Any trouble with the lake lice showing up?

See Ya Soon,
Eric / Yakhopper

Nice catch Joe,
Looks like you had a great day ... Any trouble with the lake lice showing up?

See Ya Soon,
Eric / Yakhopper

Nope in fact I only seen three other boats on the lake and they were bass fishing. I wish I would have got a pic of the fish on the hog trough but I didn't know that a 14" and 13" we're big for koke.

Nice, I always wanted to fish that lake

Great catch. Congrats on your first kokes.

They sure look like they would be tasty in a smoker.

Nice catches.  Thanks for the report and picture Joe.

Nice! Were you fishing over the weekend or on Monday? I was there on Saturday and it was slow. I only got one rainbow on a wedding ring, and some trollers I talked to in the parking lot said they only got one rainbow too.
Matt

Although I experienced slow fishing on Saturday, it was a beautiful day to be at Bass Lake, and one highlight was seeing this bald eagle on its nest.

Matt

Nice! Were you fishing over the weekend or on Monday? I was there on Saturday and it was slow. I only got one rainbow on a wedding ring, and some trollers I talked to in the parking lot said they only got one rainbow too.
Matt

I went on Monday, and I ended up finding the fish north of the sheriffs tower, those bald eagles were a sight to see, there was at least three, and I think they were the ones catching all the fish.

I didn't get that far north. Were you using leadcore or weights?

I didn't get that far north. Were you using leadcore or weights?

One pole was lead core with three colors of line out and the other one was on a down rigger 15 feet down small seps flashers and a pink wedding ring on one and a red wedding ring on the other both with shoepeg corn, I'm gonna try adding sent to the corn next time.

I didn't get that far north. Were you using leadcore or weights?

One pole was lead core with three colors of line out and the other one was on a down rigger 15 feet down small seps flashers and a pink wedding ring on one and a red wedding ring on the other both with shoepeg corn, I'm gonna try adding sent to the corn next time.

FYI empty power bait bottles are perfect for scented corn

Never thought of that Mike, but I thought we weren't supposed to mention power bait on here lol.