01-26-2009, 02:04 AM
Great Report Maghunter! I am glad your friends shared; it can drive a man nuts to watch a party pull one after another while he gets skunked. That is one of the best koke behavior reports I have ever read--I knew they were plankton feeders, but I thought they were just going for a bigger meal. I am curious then why pink seems to be their favorite color; is it a vision thing like a bull seeing red? Also your dead on about the taste. The Best! If you like smoked fish they are also at the top of the taste buds using this method.
Well anyways I made it out myself today 1-25-09 and the fishing was great, but very wet. Got into the kokes 20 minutes after setting up in thirty feet of water; gosh the Vexilar is handy. Iced six in a ten minute period of rapid nibbles threw two back, one was six inches. Bite was over at 9:30 set up the ice cube and waited for another run, and was kicking myself for letting two go then at 12:10 it got fun! Several runs came through sometimes as deep as 40 feet sometimes only one foot down. Got my limit and caught and released several more. Fish seemed to be two sizes 13-14' and 6-7 although they were swimming together. My new ice cube is great I had three holes drilled and the fish were all around me with my ten inch holes it seemed like I was snorkeling with them and not fishing for them. I wish my son was with me, but for the last week he has thought Disney World was better than fishing; I will work on that[
] Besides the kokes I only caught one 14' cutt off the bottom in sixty feet of water. I am hoping I got it figured out for the winter on the kokes behavior and run patterns; todays trip was like the one I had last year and they went well into late February. I still have not got into the perch; I have caught them, but last year there was never boredom if kokes were not in the area I was able to get into good sized perch and I had some of the best ice fishing ever.
Hope the koke trend continues!
OvidCreek
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Well anyways I made it out myself today 1-25-09 and the fishing was great, but very wet. Got into the kokes 20 minutes after setting up in thirty feet of water; gosh the Vexilar is handy. Iced six in a ten minute period of rapid nibbles threw two back, one was six inches. Bite was over at 9:30 set up the ice cube and waited for another run, and was kicking myself for letting two go then at 12:10 it got fun! Several runs came through sometimes as deep as 40 feet sometimes only one foot down. Got my limit and caught and released several more. Fish seemed to be two sizes 13-14' and 6-7 although they were swimming together. My new ice cube is great I had three holes drilled and the fish were all around me with my ten inch holes it seemed like I was snorkeling with them and not fishing for them. I wish my son was with me, but for the last week he has thought Disney World was better than fishing; I will work on that[
] Besides the kokes I only caught one 14' cutt off the bottom in sixty feet of water. I am hoping I got it figured out for the winter on the kokes behavior and run patterns; todays trip was like the one I had last year and they went well into late February. I still have not got into the perch; I have caught them, but last year there was never boredom if kokes were not in the area I was able to get into good sized perch and I had some of the best ice fishing ever.Hope the koke trend continues!
OvidCreek
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