Planer Boarding Techniques - Kokanee Crazy on Lake Roosevelt! - Extended Cut

[@unjarredoutdoors5513]

Kokanee are great eating

[@willcaruthers3984]

Necro-ing here but folks find this on Google like I did, and you will always lose more kokes than you will other species per hook-up because their mouths are soft and they are so agile, but one reason so many are lost here is the way they're fighting these kokes. Unlike most every fish you can think of, keeping the rod-tip up is not necessarily the way to play with kokes. They've got a high-drag flasher inches off their face, and this gives them plenty of leverage to use when they jump. If that koke breaks the surface, the chances it'll be gone go way up. You need to try and keep them down. When you are fishing with long set-backs, like you have to on Rosey, reverse your rod habits. Still keep your line tight, but bury the rod tip in the water.This will prevent the dodger from breaking surface on the retrieve and dragging the koke right into a jump with it. My $.02, but it's sure improved my catch rate.

[@FishingBuddiesTV]

We were planning a trip up to Washington in August. But I see that guides don't offer kokanee trips at Roosevelt after June. Why is this? Here in Ca, things are just heating up in August.

[@NorthwestFishingTV]

They do, but a lot of them switch gears and go after chinook and sockeye salmon in the Columbia River.

[@kellygunner1]

what speed and depth were your rods at? Thank you

[@NorthwestFishingTV]

Capt Dave ran those shallow, 10-20 feet deep, around 1.2-1.4mph

[@FishingBuddiesTV]

Nice fish. What month was this?

[@NorthwestFishingTV]

It was a combination of two outings, one just recently in June and the other in the winter, Jan or Feb I believe.