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Jigging - lucabrasi - 02-25-2013
Ok, with the talk and questions about downriggers and lead line I am wondering.........how many of you jig for kokanee in the summer?
I know finding them is half the battle it seems but just wondering if anyone uses this as their method even some of the time in the summer. If not, why wouldn't you? I know trolling will cover more ground to find them but is that the main reason?
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Re: [lucabrasi] Jigging - Tazasorus - 02-25-2013
I don't know what it is, but the koks seem to school a lot more and shallower under ice. When I pick them up at Ririe in the summer they are schooled but not so tight together. I always get them trolling with bikini's. Would be kind of interesting to stop and drop and see what happens.
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Re: [lucabrasi] Jigging - pisces_mortem - 02-26-2013
Way back when you could drive on the dam, we would tie a raft to the intake tower and jig for kokanee.
Without a flasher, it took a while to find the right depth. Once we got on them, though, it was steady action.
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Re: [pisces_mortem] Jigging - Kodiak1 - 02-26-2013
I can remember as a kid the commercial kokanee fishermen on Lake Pend Oreille. They would take their boats and hook them end to end in a large circle. They would then spread a large amount of creamed corn in the middle and let the kernels slowly drift down. They would take red hooks (bare) and drop them with the corn. They would haul out tons of kokes. But, you need to remember that the kokanee were thick beyond anything today. Trolling has got to be far more effective. By the way, in a recovery for the books, kokanee fishing is back on In Pend Oreille for the upcoming season, thanks to an incredible effort to diminish the lake of its macs. That, with a change in the dam by the Corps of E. and the introduction of myosis shrimp dropped the kokanee population from millions to almost nothing. Thanks, Fish and Game. Next hopefully will be the return of the Gerrard rainbows. Mike
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