06-28-2020, 08:21 PM
Thanks for the report a pic, sounds like a fun trip. How full is the lake? Last I heard it was going over the spillway. In rare years we have caught kokes there as big a 13" while ice fishing during the Winter but for quite a number of years the kokes have been smaller, like you said. There are bigger kokes in there but you generally need to get much deeper for them, like 30 to 40 feet down. One thing that will help you get deeper, if you don't have lead core line, is to use banana weights. I'd start off with 1 oz, then go to 2 oz or even 3 oz, depending on how deep you are marking the fish. Bet that was fun seeing that big brown following that koke in. Several members have caught browns up to 7 and 8 lbs there while fishing for kokes. My personal best was a nice 5 lber and my friend wiperslayer has caught one there while ice fishing that went 6 or 7 lbs.