Kokanee are still in Jordy

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I've been reading the odd report or two on other sites that people are having a tough time finding the kokes this year, especially at Jordy. Challenge accepted....    Took my FIL and wife up on Saturday morning for a few hours and started off just getting trout after trout, before landing 4  kokes in a row, boom, boom, boom, boom... like a switch got flipped.  

They were about 20-25 feet down, and green was the ticket.  I had a Christensen Tackle tornado spinner that I threw on for the heck of it since I haven't used it since I bought it last year and the kokes loved it.  Also a green hoochie with a spinner blade caught the other and most of the trout.  We started out with pink lures on some of the rods and they got no love. The green stuff was getting the hits so I changed everything over to green and had the best success.

The biggest fish was a hair under 17" and the rest were about 14-16 inches.  It's easy to distinguish the trout from the kokes just from their initial bite because the kokes seek to destroy while the trout just hang on for the water skiing. We were on the water by 9:30 (later start than hoped) and the lake got really choppy from wakeboarders so we left at 1:30. Totaled about 15 fish on the day, only kept the kokes.  

Some salt, pepper, woodfired garlic seasoning and a side of potatoes made for a happy crew.  But yah.... they're still in there- go get 'um.  First pic below is the standard bow we were getting before the kokes got hungry.

When you say green are you talking about dark green or Chartreuse Florissant green. When I think of green it’s forest green but most lures are chartreuse.