(07-07-2024, 06:01 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: Sounds like a great trip to me and 19" bow is a great size, did you try any vertical jigging? How deep were you trolling? On one of Adam Eakle's shows he was using a green wedding rings for kokes there and they had some success but we have never been able to catch any kokes there.
No vertical jigging. Most of the fish were 20 feet to 40 feet. We didn’t have downriggers, but had two poles with leaded line and one pole with a “pink lady” contraption that supposedly dives about 1 foot for every 2 feet let out (subject to all sorts of variables, of course. That, and you can’t see it on the fish finder like you can a downrigger ball). Most of our fish were hooked in the 25-30’ range. We did boat one Koke - it was actually the first fish we caught 10 minutes in. I thought it was a prelude to things to come, but we couldn’t get any others to play. It was a good one though - about 17”.
Oh yeah - all our setups were tipped with either garlic maggots or flavored corn. Trolling between 1 to 1.4 (at least that’s where we tried to keep it anyway).