06-18-2019, 02:19 PM
To the first question of SHOULD you fish them at different depths? My opinion is yes. With pods of kokanee you’re not worried about one fish, you’re wanting fish stacked up on each other. When I stack, I’m 10 feet different in depth on the same side. So for example on the left side of the boat I would run 30 and 20. On the right side of the boat I’ll be at 25 and 35. If you’re trying to learn where the fish are on a new body of water then run everything 10 feet apart. Example 20,30,40,50 and then zero in from there. Another benefit to never having set ups at exactly the same depth is you’ll figure out when these fish start to move deeper throughout the day. When your deepest line starts to get hit more frequently than top lines you know it’s time to slide your presentations down the water column.
For the second question it appears I fish differently than everybody else....or maybe we’re all saying the same thing in a different way. The down riggers toward the front of your boat should be set deeper AND farther back than the lines toward the back of your boat. I know this sounds counter intuitive as far as getting presentations away from boat noise but it works far better. If a fish hits the deeper line and your shallower line is set farther back it will tangle far more frequently. When a fish hits your deep line and it’s set back farther than your top line, it takes your presentation back and straight up. I think of it as a big “L” on bottom and a small “L” on top. I’ve put over 100 kokanee in the boat so far this year, and had exactly one tangle. Pretty good odds!!
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For the second question it appears I fish differently than everybody else....or maybe we’re all saying the same thing in a different way. The down riggers toward the front of your boat should be set deeper AND farther back than the lines toward the back of your boat. I know this sounds counter intuitive as far as getting presentations away from boat noise but it works far better. If a fish hits the deeper line and your shallower line is set farther back it will tangle far more frequently. When a fish hits your deep line and it’s set back farther than your top line, it takes your presentation back and straight up. I think of it as a big “L” on bottom and a small “L” on top. I’ve put over 100 kokanee in the boat so far this year, and had exactly one tangle. Pretty good odds!!
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