Still no kokanee at Ririe

[obifishkenobi]

Me and obifishkenobi were the first ones on the water at Juniper this morning. It sure looks like a bunch of kokes on the finder down at 75 feet. But we couldn't get them to bite. A lot a fish showing at 25 feet also, so me and Shawn had our down riggers at 75 feet and 25. We got rainbows regularly at 25. Shawn started catching them on a orange dodger and orange huchie. He asked me if I had anything orange, so I put on a small orange flatfish and started nailing the trout at 25 feet. I eventually gave up on kokanee and fished another orange with black dots flatfish and caught them on that also. Nothing big, but good 1 1/2 pounds. It was fun and kept us busy until near noon. No pictures, all fish caught and released.

We fished Ririe 10 or 12 days ago from 7 AM till 11 caught one rainbow but we’re trying for Kokenee.We also grafted what we thought were Kokanee  that we’re down deeper. We fished between 4 lines ,25 and 50 feet mostly.
This was our second attempt this spring and still nothing. We did catch one last fall but none through the ice this winter.

This was my third trip this year after I found the rainbows I started targeting them with at least two of my 4 downriggers on the second trip and target the kokes with th same gear at those deeper marks.