Had a little camping and fishing trip at porcupine this weekend and was able to get out on the kayak a few re to chase some Kokanee.
Water temperature was around 65 in the morning and warmed close to 70 in the afternoon. I was marking schools from 30’ up to 10’ with several schools jumping and on the surface in the early morning hours.
Fish were plenty willing to bite as long as I could get my gear to them, pink hoochie with a dodger. I don’t have a downrigger so I added some weight to get it down, I was probably only 10-15’ down because I wouldn’t usually get bites from the schools deeper than 15’. I was trolling at around 1.5 mph.
I caught a dozen or so Kokanee, all very small, but still tasty, and one nice sized cutthroat. I had a massive brown trout follow one of the hooked Kokanee up to the surface that got my heart racing, but no browns in the net this trip.
Wish the Kokanee were bigger up there but it was still a fun trip. If you go, go early before the crowds show up and the fish dive deeper. I had the best luck in the early morning and evening hours
“I tried to get as much weight on it as I could, but the shelves at Sportsmans were clean of any sinkers whatsoever,”
The only thing worse then not having any sinkers in the stores is having to tell customers we don’t know when they will get in.
At the Riverdale Sportsman’s Warehouse, we got sinkers in last week. I don’t know how long they will last, but for now, we are good.
We have always had the trolling sinkers in the wooden compartments below the line on the back wall. I some some 3/4 oz there and then we jump to 2 oz and bigger, but we have them. We also have the cannon ball in the half ounce and up.
Note: due to the supply chain getting Covid-19ed, and the massive increase in people going fishing, this report is accurate of 10 minutes, or less. uggggggg
We got a late start this morning, on the water at 8:45.
We decided to try Bird Island, and had never approached it from the Provo harbor. It seemed like it took us forever to get there, we ended up on the West side.
We decided to give the bobber and cut bait a try this time, instead of trolling like we usually do.
I caught the first fish of the day at 10:30, and it was 31". What a way to start the day. My next fish at 10:45 was 29.5". Richard didn’t do so hot. He had several pop and drops but nothing wanted to hang on. We didn’t catch another fish for 2 hours.
We swung around the South end of the island and headed East, staying far enough South to avoid the rocks.
Richard finally caught his first fish at 1:25. We continued to troll to the East.
About 2:30 the fish started hitting on flaits and cut bait.
As the day wore on we started hooking up again and ended up with 13 total, 4 - 29 inchers, 2 - 28 inchers, a 26" and 27", we released everything as Richard said he didn’t feel like messing with them today.
We saw Pisco and his grandkids when we launched long enough to say hi.
It was a beautiful day on the water, and we had a great day together.
