Ririe 7/24

[psanders71]

Hit Ririe this morning... Kept 8 kokes, 3 perch and 1 smallie.  Fished same area near dam/Juniper.  Was surprised to see that smallmouth hit a kokanee setup up which was a Slingblade and blade tipped with corn on a long line 120 ft out over 140 ft of water!!!

My thoughts on kokanee is that the more silver they are = the better they are, but I have no problem keeping them a little blushed!  The Traeger can do magic!!! 

On another note, saw some nice fish that were caught at Anderson Ranch really early this year... same guy said he only got 1 in 4 hours of trolling recently though!

Nice haul, did you catch the perch and smallie trolling? Sounds like you did, that's pretty crazy. What kind of fish was this nice fish you saw at Anderson ranch, how big was it?

Yeah... the smallie and the perch were caught trolling for kokanee.  First decent smallmouth we have caught doing that, although we have picked up a few tiny ones on the same gear this year.  For perch, we usually get 3 or 4 every time out while targeting kokes.  Never knew perch would suspend over deep water like that until I fished at Ririe! 

Saw some pics of nice catches as far back as January of this year with the biggest koke right at 20 inches in April.  Like MMDon said though, not much catching going on this summer!