09-19-2024, 07:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-19-2024, 07:38 PM by chubby chaser.)
(09-18-2024, 04:47 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: Thanks for the report and pics
My guess is someone caught that red koke, and in it's end of life state, it just did not survive the catch and release. How far, from where the stream enters the lake, did you see that dead koke? Glad it turned out a decent day for you two. My theory on why no big bass, those smaller ones are more numerous and they are just faster to the lure
welcome! happy to share. That's a good theory and would make sense to me, it was west of the hailstone arm bouys a couple hundred yards and was missing it's eyes so hard to know for sure but we didnt see any others so could be a bycatch fatality for sure.
There will be a bumper crop of smallies in a few years, hopefully they arent so numerous that they stunt. We worked that canyone shoreline for a while and were getting them on rooster tails on nearly every cast. still fun to chase those mini tugs when the trout were liplocked!