07-28-2019, 01:52 PM
Early Saturday morning we had made plans to go fish Electric Lake for Kokanee and Tigers, but due to the heavy rain the day before the road between Thistle and Fairview was covered with two feet of mud just past Thistle.
So we fueled up the boat and talked about where to go. Thanks to a recent post on BigFishTackle, we decided to head to Jordanelle.
This was my first trip there, but I knew the general area to go fishing. Just a short 45 minute drive and we were at the marina. We took time to set up all out poles and made a game plan. I educated Jeff on all the gear and we launched the boat.
When we got down to the dam, there were a dozen boats or more running lines trolling for salmon. Instead of getting in line I decided I didn't want to contend with the mob so we veered off to the East toward the narrows.
After we slowed down the fish finder indicated there were plenty of fish between 30-50 feet. So we got all our gear in the water. One dodger on the down rigger with a light pink hoochie, one dodger on a Tripsie Diver 30, a chartreuse wedding ring on a 3 ounce banana weight and one pole with a black silver Flicker Shad 9 cm.
In less than 10 minutes Jeff had one on with the Tripsie 30 and we landed it! 10 minutes later we landed another one on the wedding ring. So we decided to just continue working this 1/4 mile of the opening of the narrows.
The fishing was consistent. We would see a pod of salmon on the fish finder and in 10-20 seconds we would have a hook up. All the gear except the Flicker (hoping for a big trout) caught fish. The hoochies with the dodger were the best though. Overall we had 10 hook ups and landed our limit of 8.
We saw other fishermen landing kokanee so fishing was good for everyone. We started at about 9:00 and ended around 11:30 and were on our way back to the boat launch. We would have stayed and fished the shore for bass, but we had forgotten to get ice for the cooler.
Here is a link to the video I put together.
https://youtu.be/kv35Efi0EI0
Matthew
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So we fueled up the boat and talked about where to go. Thanks to a recent post on BigFishTackle, we decided to head to Jordanelle.
This was my first trip there, but I knew the general area to go fishing. Just a short 45 minute drive and we were at the marina. We took time to set up all out poles and made a game plan. I educated Jeff on all the gear and we launched the boat.
When we got down to the dam, there were a dozen boats or more running lines trolling for salmon. Instead of getting in line I decided I didn't want to contend with the mob so we veered off to the East toward the narrows.
After we slowed down the fish finder indicated there were plenty of fish between 30-50 feet. So we got all our gear in the water. One dodger on the down rigger with a light pink hoochie, one dodger on a Tripsie Diver 30, a chartreuse wedding ring on a 3 ounce banana weight and one pole with a black silver Flicker Shad 9 cm.
In less than 10 minutes Jeff had one on with the Tripsie 30 and we landed it! 10 minutes later we landed another one on the wedding ring. So we decided to just continue working this 1/4 mile of the opening of the narrows.
The fishing was consistent. We would see a pod of salmon on the fish finder and in 10-20 seconds we would have a hook up. All the gear except the Flicker (hoping for a big trout) caught fish. The hoochies with the dodger were the best though. Overall we had 10 hook ups and landed our limit of 8.
We saw other fishermen landing kokanee so fishing was good for everyone. We started at about 9:00 and ended around 11:30 and were on our way back to the boat launch. We would have stayed and fished the shore for bass, but we had forgotten to get ice for the cooler.
Here is a link to the video I put together.
https://youtu.be/kv35Efi0EI0
Matthew
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