This could be one of those lakes where the kokes stay really shallow all year. It’s worth a shot to troll around with everything in the top 10 feet of the water column and see what happens.
‘obifishkenobi’ pid=‘1103111’ dateline=‘1595205601’ wrote:
I’m going to be there Wednesday to Sunday this week do you have a report Muskybee or anyone else. I’ll post reports while I’m up there, I’m thinking about running over to Ririe friday morning. I’ll be in a Blue 20’ Wooldridge boat if your up in that part of the world say hi and we can talk fishing.
We only made it up to the resevoir in the boat one morning. We launched at the boat ramp by the dam. We mainly fished to the right of the ramp in the first big cove. We marked a ton of fish from 35 ft to 10 ft. We ran the typical squid and Dodger set ups . The pink cotton candy hoochie caught the most. We didnt catch any kokes out of the resevoir, but did down below in the river throwing rapalas. We caught a couple of browns, and some cuts. When we first started fishing we hooked up twice the first couple of minutes we dropped the downriggers down at 30 ft. Fishing really slowed down after that with a fish here and their. After a couple of laps around the cove. We noticed schools of decent size fish swimming all around us. They were only a couple inches under the water. We tried to catch them with no luck. Saw over 100 fish easy right on the surface. The sun came out and the bites stopped. We left the lake by 1030 and it was a mad house full of boats and people at the boat ramp.
‘obifishkenobi’ pid=‘1103287’ dateline=‘1595565834’ wrote:
I finally found a couple Kokanee at Palisades, 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 Palisades tomorrow evening and Saturday and hope to find some more. We got both on a watermelon squid and dodger down 50’ going 1.7.
Nice looking Kokes there Obi! Glad you finally found those things.
‘obifishkenobi’ pid=‘1103287’ dateline=‘1595565834’ wrote:
I finally found a couple Kokanee at Palisades, 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 Palisades 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 Palisades from the Facebook guy?