Palisades resevoir in idaho

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I finally found a couple Kokanee at Palies, I met a guy from the Idaho Kokanee Facebook group at 6:00 pm at the Calamity ramp and we ran up the lake to Big Elk Creek but we got blown farther up lake by strong wind we ducked in behind a big point on the west side of the lake where we got two nice kokes 17” and 18” several Cutts a brown and several chubs before lightning and rain chased us off the lake a little before 9pm. I’m fishing Ririe in the morning but will be back fishing Palies tomorrow evening and Saturday and hope to find some more. We got both on a watermelon squid and dodger down 50’ going 1.7.

That's awesome!  So you caught them on the West side?  South of Big Elk Creek?  How did you find them?  Were you seeing them on your electronics?  I've always thought I was fishing too deep but 50' is deeper than I normally go.  Did you learn anything else about Kokanee on Palies from the Facebook guy?

The guy who came had never tried for kokes at palies and was interested in figuring them out we ended up where we where because of the 30 mph wind I’m going back tonight I always mark lots of fish at Palies getting them to bite is another matter I noticed today my meter on my down rigger that can get the kokes was off, so maybe they where slightly shallower I’ll let you know after tonight we went to Ririe this morning and put 30 kokes in the box between 7:30 am and 11:30 am