Porcupine help

[thefriends03]

I am heading up to Porcupine tomorrow for the weekend with my family. I am planning on doing some fishing also. I will be going blind on my 9 ft pontoon with no fish finder. Just wanting to pick some brains about what might give me the best chance to land some fish up there. I haven't had a chance to fish it yet, but am looking forward to the challenge. Any pointers/guidance is much appreciated!
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[DKStroutfitter]

Get some 2" or 2 1/2" Buzz Bombs and vertical jig with them.
Locate the bottom of the water and jig a few feet about the bottom. If you don't get any hits after about 10 minutes, reel up 3 or 4 turns and try again.
Continue this process throughout the water column.

Move around and continue the same procedure.
This will also work with Kastmasters.

Therr of us will be there on Friday in a white/yellow tri hull with down riggers.
Say hi, if I go by you.
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[thefriends03]

Thanks! If I see you, I will say hi. Not sure if I'll get to hit the water Friday. I will be setting up camp and will have two 5 year old girls to take care of until the rest of the crew gets up there tomorrow late afternoon. Hope you have a great day fishing.
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[DKStroutfitter]

I just got back from the Pig.
Don't try to use the upper ramp.
The water level it very low and the ramp is now too steep to launch from.
The lower ramp is OK for a smaller boat and a 4x4.
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[albinotrout]

[quote thefriends03]Thanks! If I see you, I will say hi. Not sure if I'll get to hit the water Friday. I will be setting up camp and will have two 5 year old girls to take care of until the rest of the crew gets up there tomorrow late afternoon. Hope you have a great day fishing.[/quote]

Sounds like some fine bank tangling time to me.[]
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[thefriends03]

Well, I didn't end up getting to fish at all. We were all too busy, but we still had fun. We were camped right by the ramp you were talking about which is still good to use. I did start to get out there today on the pontoon, but the wind just went nuts right when I got on the water. Needless to say, I didn't feel like fighting it. I did talk to some guys on and off throughout the day. They were doing ok-well in anywhere from 30-45 feet of water farther east from the ramp out in the middle. One of these days, I hope to say the same. Again, thanks for the help!
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[lavaman]

Was up there today mid to late morning, just fishing from the bank. Slowwww, not even a bite- but got some beautiful pics.

Counted 6 or 7 boats out on the water, but didn't notice any fish being boated. Breeze picked up, so I packed up.
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[CoyoteSpinner]

Hey bud - we have GOT to get out on the water there before the ice comes! Plus they'll be shutting down for the spawn pretty soon. (when does that start? End of Aug?)

I've got two electric downriggers, but can only manage one by myself, and can't convince the boy to tend one - he likes handling the net mostly! But I often do two poles - one down, one dragging lead line.

I've got several pinky squiddy things and some other "kokanee killers" we could drag around. Hadn't heard of using buzz-baits on Kokes though. Don't their hooks tend to be big - enough for a Large-Mouth?!

So is early morning the "good time" up there? I was getting out at sunset last fall, and seemed like the shore area was boiling.

I would LOVE to land into some of them tasty Kokes! As long as we don't rip their lips off! Spotted up bunches of schools when I went before. Seemed like they liked the drop-off at about 25 feet. But then some lunkers liked to sit right on the bottom (big browns I was guessing).

I'm even thinnin' it might be worth making an overnight trip to guarantee the early morning start. But I just got back from a week of camping...
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[PACKFAN]

I think you have to start watching out for the spawners as the law use to say after a certain date in August you couldn't keep any that were starting to show red in there colors. I don't know if that is still in effect or not, but you may want to check the proclamation to see what it says.
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[wiperhunter2]

The lake is closed to the possession of kokanee with any red color from Aug 15 through the last Sat in Sept.
Early morning is the best time to hit the lake but we have caught them as late as 1pm.
The boiling you were seeing in the fall were trout chasing minnows up against the shore line. A lot of time they are big browns doing the chasing but I have also seen big bows chasing the minnows as well.
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[K18]

[quote albinotrout]
Sounds like some fine bank tangling time to me.[][/quote]

Any suggestion on what part of the lake is best to fish for the salmon from shore? The girlfriend wants to try and catch one so we will be going one morning this week.

Any spots or good lures to try would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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[DKStroutfitter]

Catching Kokanee from the shore is not easy. You may get some with a Kastmaster but let it sink a bit before retrieving it.
I don't know where you may want to go to shore fish though.
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