Kokanee and other lake fishing.

[Jerm]

This could be good for the lakes.

http://s21030.gridserver.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=415&products_id=1852&osCsid=0ee879347e11e9c549ec7c2001992054


They where made for the big river's, but should work well on lakes too.

http://www.anglers-experience.com/videos.php

[Salmonhawk]

This is a great discussion, a lot of great info. I live on Lake Washington currently but other than some bass fishing from shore and an occasional cuttie day on the water I don't spend enough time fishing it. I have always been a "salty" guy, in more ways than one, but I find myself really wanting to get some of this lake fishing dialed in. Lake Wa. has so much to offer an angler and so many different fish to target and it gets me on the water when I can't make it to the coast. My boys and I spent the weekend in the garage spooling line and organizing a tackle box or two just for the lake.

[Smalma]

Rob -
If you are going to spend much time chasing those LW cutts it probably be worth while to set up at least one lead line outfit. Pretty much an old school approach to fishing but during the summer it is an excellent way to tackle those guys. They don;t seem to stratify nearly as narrowly as the kokanee so a presentation that moves up and down in the water column with boat speed and direction changes can be pretty darn effective.

Not as much fun as motor mooching with light leads and small cut plugs but a good way to cover an area as well as part of the water column. As we had talked before adapting some of the various "salty" methods to freshwater situations can be effective.

Tight lines
Curt

[ondarvr]

Curt

Which side planer did you use.


Salmonhawk


I lived on Lake WA for many years and fished it all the time, it was a totally different lake in the mid sixties when it was so polluted it would have almost been labeled as a superfund site. It was interesting though because there were still good returns of steelhead and salmon even to the small creeks that had sewer pipes discharging directly into water.

I volunteered to work with the regulatory agency to find and identify the discharge pipes, they also did dye testing to see where storm drains dumped in. It was after all this work was done and the water cleaned up that the runs really started to decline, then disappear from these small creeks. One thing they did to help Juanita creek was to cut all the brush away that covered it, clear cutting the bank always helps the fish. Then apartments were built all around it, I don’t think anything returns to it now. Juanita HS did have a fisheries class that planted Kings, but I don’t know if that happens anymore. When this HS run started to have fish return the tribes started netting the mouth of the creek. After some discussions and bad press they agreed to move out away from mouth.

We fished for trout, catfish, crappie, perch, bass, kokanee, carp, salmon and steelhead. There are a few other things to fish for now, I don’t know if they weren’t in the lake back then, or if it was just that nobody knew they were there.

[Smalma]

Ondarvr -
Have tried a couple and so far the one by "off shore" seemed the most user friendly.

In regards to the species in lake Washington; there are several species that were not there 20 years ago - the weatherfish (a loach) is just one example.

I can remember while going to the UW in the 1960s one spring catching 22 different species while fishing the area around campus. As I recall there were about 30 species in the lake at that time.

Tight lines
Curt

[ondarvr]

At the same time I was fishing from Kirkland to Kenmore, mostly Juanita bay.

Were there lake trout and burbot in the lake at that time?