04-26-2017, 06:16 PM
Something to consider or not. Tournament Kokanee fishermen hate boats that run pop gear. Their reasoning is as follows. When you find a school or a shoal of Kokanee, if your presentation is correct you should be able to run back and forth across the school, sometimes only from one direction and limit out off that single school. A dodger, small in the spring and larger as you go deeper allows you to do this however . . .
If you run popgear you have to remember to a Kokanee, every other fish in the lake represents one of their predators. Popgear generally represents a school of fish. While you will get the occasional reaction strike with pop gear, you will also move or break up the school of Kokes. It's that fight of flight thing and either way it ends up with flight generally speaking. This is why dodgers have become so popular. What they see is another Kokanee doing something interesting and they seem to be naturally curious according to the videos of Kokes trailing dodgers.
When we are fishing for Kokes, if a boat trolls through our area with popgear, especially at the same depth, we generally move on and look for another target school.
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If you run popgear you have to remember to a Kokanee, every other fish in the lake represents one of their predators. Popgear generally represents a school of fish. While you will get the occasional reaction strike with pop gear, you will also move or break up the school of Kokes. It's that fight of flight thing and either way it ends up with flight generally speaking. This is why dodgers have become so popular. What they see is another Kokanee doing something interesting and they seem to be naturally curious according to the videos of Kokes trailing dodgers.
When we are fishing for Kokes, if a boat trolls through our area with popgear, especially at the same depth, we generally move on and look for another target school.
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