06-18-2020, 02:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-18-2020, 02:49 PM by BROWNBAGGN.)
I can get you catching kokanee for less than 125.00. one catch is determining speed of your boat and a fish finder to make sure of water depth.
You only need to fish down to 40 to 50 feet max and that is only in the dead of summer(excluding the Gorge). so the only reason for a finder is to keep from loosing your gear on a snag. I get more out of my GPS than a fish finder, speed, bread crumb trail and marking of schools. GPS's are getting cheaper every year. So, you can pick up a Okuma line counter reel combo for less than 70.00 bucks. Next would be a walker deeper diver 13.00 bucks.
Then assorted koke gear, that one always breaks my bank. Have to have 3 of every color and style. But that will come later. I would stay away from weights and jet divers. You don't want to reel in dead weight or fight a jet diver as you reel in a fish. A jet diver continues to dive the whole way back to the boat. A walker diver has a break away clip built into the diver. so when the fish hits, it trips and planes back to the surface. I have all the best down riggers money can buy and my wife hates them. she prefers long lining it. I have a entire box with divers for her, all sizes and colors. the draw back to long lining it is other boats cutting you off, especially those GD down rigger fisherman. Oh wait that would be me too. boats with riggers can turn in circles around each other. Finally to give you motivation, when I was in between boats I used a 12 foot fish hunter raft, 2 hp motor and a manual homemade rigger (long lining to, cause I could only mount one next to the motor) and caught kokes.
![[Image: walker-deeper-diver.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/PMMWNG8/walker-deeper-diver.jpg)
![[Image: okuma.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/b197yLp/okuma.jpg)
You only need to fish down to 40 to 50 feet max and that is only in the dead of summer(excluding the Gorge). so the only reason for a finder is to keep from loosing your gear on a snag. I get more out of my GPS than a fish finder, speed, bread crumb trail and marking of schools. GPS's are getting cheaper every year. So, you can pick up a Okuma line counter reel combo for less than 70.00 bucks. Next would be a walker deeper diver 13.00 bucks.
Then assorted koke gear, that one always breaks my bank. Have to have 3 of every color and style. But that will come later. I would stay away from weights and jet divers. You don't want to reel in dead weight or fight a jet diver as you reel in a fish. A jet diver continues to dive the whole way back to the boat. A walker diver has a break away clip built into the diver. so when the fish hits, it trips and planes back to the surface. I have all the best down riggers money can buy and my wife hates them. she prefers long lining it. I have a entire box with divers for her, all sizes and colors. the draw back to long lining it is other boats cutting you off, especially those GD down rigger fisherman. Oh wait that would be me too. boats with riggers can turn in circles around each other. Finally to give you motivation, when I was in between boats I used a 12 foot fish hunter raft, 2 hp motor and a manual homemade rigger (long lining to, cause I could only mount one next to the motor) and caught kokes.