02-27-2022, 06:30 PM
It was pretty tough the Kokanee schools never showed, I spoke with a guy who fishes there a lot and he spent 8 hours the day before with out them showing, The good news is if your interested in catching Rainbows they are fairly easy, I caught 6 while I was there 1 on my kokanee gear and 5 from a hole I punched 20 feet off the bank in less than 20 ft. of water, where I set my jaw jacker, only one fish was hooked by the jaw jacker the other 4 where hooked after it went off and missed and I was resetting it. I'm pretty positive I could have caught 20+ bows if I had concentrated on them. I got them on an 1/8th. oz. pink jig head with a white twin tail grub tipped with a small piece of night crawler. The bottom 5 ft. of the water Coolum was tough to see on the electronics as your jig would get lost in the broken rock that makes up the bottom but if you drop your gear down to the bottom reel up a couple turns and shake your jig you should get bit. It was great fishing with you guys telling stories, I hope you don't base your opinion of the catching at Ririe on this one trip I have had a lot of epic days on that lake and it is one of the most consistent kokanee lakes I have fished, regularly putting 45+ fish in the boat.