Bullards Bar fish and Chill 5/12-5/14

Looks Delish Brian. Gave all my Kokes to Adrian so no smoking for me. Looks like that means a day trip up to Stampede in a week or two. It's open and the fishing is good.

let me know when

Great to meet everyone and do some kokanee fishing!

My morning trip was uneventful though a bit later than would have been ideal, everyone was already on the water by the time I arrived! Naturally instead of introducing myself on the radio I mostly kept to myself and lurked around trolling.
Call it a shy streak? I managed to catch one koke near the brown-trout-pens very quickly, but couldn't put together a pattern. By noon I had three, each one deeper than the last. I moved from brad's kokanee cut plugs to teardrop dodgers and purple pink hoochies.

Come noon I made my way to the beach, donated to AOTY prizes in a roundabout way and did my best to make friends! It turns out quite a few folks here have reckless motorcycle histories and I had fun reminiscing.

Since I had somewhat limited time I excused myself from camp after lunch and decided I would try my luck at worst-time-of-day fishing. My efforts were rewarded by a 4th and final koke and my first glide-bait fish!

Young bass are so ambitious.



I can't wait for the next one!

Here is how my kokes turned out.  tldr, bit salty not sweet enough with 1/2 sugar and salt dry cured overnight.  Salt was way more corase than I expected, and a lot of it rinsed off, but still too much.  Will do 1:4 next time salt to sugar and see how it comes out.  Still, pretty tasty!  Will make a dip out of the rest of it.