05-23-2014, 08:42 PM
Absolutely! Pretty much the same anywhere that kokes are. You don't have to troll however; when I was young...so long ago!....and we fished Lake Pend Oreille, there was commercial fishing for kokanee. They would hook their boats together in a large circle, and spread canned creamed corn in the middle. The corn slick would occasionally drop a kernel to slowly sink, keeping the kokanee there. They would fish with a bare red hook, and catch large numbers of them. The bare hook is interesting in that the method of fishing for their big brother the sockeye in Lake Washington is trolling a size 0 or 00 dodger with a bare red Gamakatsu hook trailing. I am convinced that the shoepeg corn (or a maggot) is necessary when kokanee fishing, but who knows. Conversely, the Seattlites may not have discovered shoepeg when sockeye fishing!! People are resistant to change. I remember when they started using hoochies in Shasta Lake. People here would say "they might work over there, but they sure don't work here". How that has changed. Oops, I am rambling again! Mike
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