Like you I catch Kokanee on several different set-ups. One I like is a small trout killer pink apex lure rigged with double hooks. You provided lots of very good tips - Thanks
My favorite lure is what ever is working that day. Usually start with what worked last time then work through different speeds and scents and some times leader length. This process is helped immensely if you have a couple people with 2 pole endorsements.
Orange hoochie tied with #2 Gami wide gap finesse hooks, Small Indiana blade, 13 inch leader, 1 piece of corn on each hook with Pro-cure wizard Kokanee killer korn magic and super dipping sauce, Kokanee/sockeye flavor. Great video. Thank you.
I use all the three that Cameron talked about. Just started to use the Cut plug lure. Kokanne are my go to fish when I can’t salmon fish. My most success if from a mini hoochie and a spin glow.
OBH DUDE, 2 FYI facts you should know. One, their name is spelled " Kokanee:, and two (and most importantly) they ARE Salmon - and most will say the BEST Tasting!
I used to fish from shore at a dam on the Columbia using a slip bobber and a small salad shrimp. once i learned how deep the fish were it would only take a half hour to limit out. we didn't have a boat so trolling wasn't an option.
A toss up between pink hoochie and pink w/orange wedding ring, both with spinners. I've always used sling blades and anise scent shoepeg corn on the second hook.
Last september and half of October i was driving and hr and a half targeting kokanee and finally after weeks and weeks i nailed 14 in a small pocket of water! It was so fun man not even pink yet all nice and silver. I used a kokanee killer and a blue fox with shrimp. Cant wait till that lake opens again in march the trout should be huge by then and a few months later the kokanee come back
Best eating fish smoked on a Bradley Smoker, 60 minutes of pecan smoke. Then canned in pint jars. They keep for years if you hide them from the family.
Years back Pennsylvania had kokanee stocked in what was called Upper Woods Pond. The state stopped the stocking process. They actually removed the salmon from the lake. It's now a trout lake (specifically). In recent years, someone and not the fish commission introduced smallmouth bass to the lake. I've found the trout fishing to decline since the smallmouth were put in. I'm now asking the state to have the smallmouth removed from the lake. it won't happen I'm sure. But there are plenty of places for fishermen to pursue smallmouth in that area
When I was a lad and learning to fish, back in the day, in ancient times, before written language, when the Flintstones had the coolest car in town, we used to run the orange wedding rings with hammered silver blades behind cowbells and snubbers, ALWAYS with corn and/or fresh maggots. And we had every kind of drag-inducing contraption we could conjure up to try to slow down our old Mercruiser-equipped tri-hull. That was when most of us had two rods --- a trolling broomstick, and an 'everything else' spinning rod. We had no idea you needed thousands of dollars of fishery- and species-specific gear to fish.
50/50 flame chartreuse small (#12 or 14) spin-n-glo with straight 1 1/2 inch piece of nightcrawler with a little "tail" past the hook bend. Shallow water early spring. 1960s to early 90s, before UV, dodgers, downriggers, etc.
Caution :The Eagle Claw has a short reel seat ! the only line of Okuma bait-caster reels that fit; is the awesome: Okuma Magda Pro line Depth Counter MA-20 ( DX =( right handed ) a perfect fit reel foot, for the rod seat. Most all of my spinning/bait-casting with depth counters reels are spooled and all i do is match them to any type of fishing that's out there; some 36lb lead core with at least 6lb mono leader ( some set up with 6 lb with 4 lb leader mono to mono, Then 8,10 & 14 lb mono and ( some with 10-14 lb floro to minimum of 6lb mono leaders ) their reel foot also fits into the Eagle Claw reel seat. Also This is a 2 piece rod ,Eagle Claw 8 foot 6" featherlight kokanee FL209C2-8'6 Casting Mod Light action rod . Have fun fishing
My eagle claw 7'6" is paired with a abu garcia max dlc and I love it. Picked up the rod for 20$ at Walmart. The rod is great and it can handle 2-3 Oz weight or big fish like the steelhead planted in some of our lakes.
Always have a collection of wedding rings in my box cause they work. After that its the kcp. Like the copper, but always had luck on fire Tiger patterns.
#1 of all time 2 #2 Gamakatsu wide gap finesse hooks with 1/2 wedding ring with a 1.2 Micro glo squid tipped with shoepeg corn 8 inch leader and Poulsen Cascade Half-Fast Arrow Flash UV Dodger i would be happy to fish with this alone forever...
Martin Fire-Stripe plastic wobbler (half white/half flame orange) behind Flashlights on Merwin near Woodland Park at the Indian Burial Mound in the mouth of Rock Creek. 45 years and nothing comes close...too bad the Martin Firestripe was discontinued and barely available, the rainbow colored Luhr Jensen Kokanee King is a distant 2nd place.
@@AddictedFishing nope, the last few I found were at a garage sale in Woodland. I found a solid red one and scraped it to make it look similar to no avail. Do you know where the indian burial mound at the mouth of Rock Creek is?
@@AddictedFishing just got one in an ebay auction, but hard to swap out after the stellar performance of dodgers and hoochies...will try tomorrow 6Jan23
Easy answer for the best kokanee lure...the Sonic BaitFish. Vertical jigging on a slow drift ...deadly. Keep it simple, uncomplicated and outfish trolling by staying over the kokanee rather than passing through them.
Have you tried chrounamids lately that's what I've been doing ice fishing and trolling with a Dodger black and red no bait outfishes other setups for my experience
This is super interesting, to see the west coast catch trout ....in Tennessee we use just corn or throw Rapala plugs like countdown 7 in gold or ghost green and pick up 20-30 a day 1/4 lb to 10 lb ....what brought me here is the kokanee, I bought some corn dye called that and being Cherokee wondered where the name came from ....any way have fun
Wedding Ring! Regarding leader length, I have always been told that with dodgers to go 3 times the dodger length. You go shorter. Plz explain! Good info
so what is it about corn specifically that Salmon like? It doesnt seem like a natural food option for them, do you have any ideas what would attract them to corn?
Camerron im an old tackle maker and make a realy great Kokanee lures that I havent had a time To try them out i hope Your catching a limit For every one
Hello I am new to this whole fishing thing. I fish in Washington State at Lake Roosevelt. When you are fishing with these lures you described do you put any bait on the lures or just leave them just the lures? May sound like dumb question but again I am new to this whole thing, and it is addicting :)
Hey Brad, this is an old post but how long of a leader do you guys run on the apex? Ive seen a few guys run them super long and one guy short maybe 18inch or so. Seen you comment a few times about the 1.5 apex figured id ask lol thanks bro
Cameron i am a old tackle maker i havr some Wobbler lures that i paint That makes the hoochy Hooks id like to send you One of my rigs that i use a crinkled rubber jigs that Are moving under the Wobbler
I'm a newbie at fishing for Kokanee. Question: what are your minimum and maximum trolling speeds with the lures/rigs in this video. Well done video and content. Thank you!
@@AddictedFishing Agreed. I've recently discovered Cle Elum Lake, and you can fish that with a small boat... right up until that westerly wind kicks up. That can get nasty in a hurry. I've fished a 12' Starcraft skiff on Sammamish, but it's normally the ski and wakeboard boats who provide the trip-ending peril there.
I use corn that has been sitting in oiled bloody tuna corn. The stuff is disgusting but this fish hit that stuff before you even get your line out all the way.
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I caught Kokanee using a 1/32 or 1/16 oz tube jigs just fine using green , orange or yellow no beads. Simple. Toss it in and jig it. Works every time
My go to lure is a gang of four# 10 colorado blades follow by a wedding ring. This setup has caught fish from Odall Lake to Merwin Lake
I fish Blue Meas Reservoir in Colorado and my favorite lure there is an Arnies. One egg. I enjoy your videos on kokanee fishing
Like you I catch Kokanee on several different set-ups. One I like is a small trout killer pink apex lure rigged with double hooks. You provided lots of very good tips - Thanks
My favorite lure is what ever is working that day. Usually start with what worked last time then work through different speeds and scents and some times leader length. This process is helped immensely if you have a couple people with 2 pole endorsements.
For Merwin this time of year, I run a small pink and purple hoochie behind a light blue Brad's. But will change to copper if I change! Great Video!
Fished Stampede last year, used nothing but Needlefish on leadcore line and limited out!
Orange hoochie tied with #2 Gami wide gap finesse hooks, Small Indiana blade, 13 inch leader, 1 piece of corn on each hook with Pro-cure wizard Kokanee killer korn magic and super dipping sauce, Kokanee/sockeye flavor. Great video. Thank you.
great video. what about scenting the corn? How important?
I use all the three that Cameron talked about. Just started to use the Cut plug lure. Kokanne are my go to fish when I can’t salmon fish. My most success if from a mini hoochie and a spin glow.
OBH
DUDE, 2 FYI facts you should know. One, their name is spelled " Kokanee:, and two (and most importantly) they ARE Salmon - and most will say the BEST Tasting!
TheOregonOutlaw
I know that. I meant big ocean going salmon. But thanks for being a text police.
My go to is a pink radical glow tube with corn following a 4" Vances Dodger in watermelon .
I used to fish from shore at a dam on the Columbia using a slip bobber and a small salad shrimp. once i learned how deep the fish were it would only take a half hour to limit out. we didn't have a boat so trolling wasn't an option.
A toss up between pink hoochie and pink w/orange wedding ring, both with spinners. I've always used sling blades and anise scent shoepeg corn on the second hook.
I find that the green wedding ring is my go to. Also same lure and color is killer for bows tipped with worm
Last september and half of October i was driving and hr and a half targeting kokanee and finally after weeks and weeks i nailed 14 in a small pocket of water! It was so fun man not even pink yet all nice and silver. I used a kokanee killer and a blue fox with shrimp. Cant wait till that lake opens again in march the trout should be huge by then and a few months later the kokanee come back
Favorite Lure: Triple Teezer/Flor Head w/Gold body.
I've personally caught more kokanee with just a nightcrawler during early spring spawn than anything... ol worm & bobber. Best eating fish out there!
Best eating fish smoked on a Bradley Smoker, 60 minutes of pecan smoke. Then canned in pint jars. They keep for years if you hide them from the family.
Green wedding ring also great for sea run cutthroat trout
Good vid.... Purple huchie with spinner...treble hook...fermented corn
I'm a diehard spin and glow guy. And I always use a scent on my corn.
I run a Pink apex behind a dogtail dodger. I tip mine with dyed and scented corn. Works very well in the interlakes of BC.
What is the corn dyed and scented with?
Thats my go to up in the cariboo, dodgers are usually Gibbs, Brads or the Simons
Love your Videos bro!!! My Kokanne killer is a wedding ring brotha!! Never fails!!
Years back Pennsylvania had kokanee stocked in what was called Upper Woods Pond. The state stopped the stocking process. They actually removed the salmon from the lake. It's now a trout lake (specifically). In recent years, someone and not the fish commission introduced smallmouth bass to the lake. I've found the trout fishing to decline since the smallmouth were put in. I'm now asking the state to have the smallmouth removed from the lake. it won't happen I'm sure. But there are plenty of places for fishermen to pursue smallmouth in that area
PA sucks for sportsman, almost as bad as washington
@@rustyshackleford9017 I guess you don't know how to be a sportsman.
When I was a lad and learning to fish, back in the day, in ancient times, before written language, when the Flintstones had the coolest car in town, we used to run the orange wedding rings with hammered silver blades behind cowbells and snubbers, ALWAYS with corn and/or fresh maggots. And we had every kind of drag-inducing contraption we could conjure up to try to slow down our old Mercruiser-equipped tri-hull. That was when most of us had two rods --- a trolling broomstick, and an 'everything else' spinning rod. We had no idea you needed thousands of dollars of fishery- and species-specific gear to fish.
Lol
Back in my day i used to walk 10 miles to school uphill both ways in snow in asbestos insulated parkas
A pink raptor and pink hoochie. 80% of my Kokanee this year have been on the same pink micro hoochie
Another well done video!
I love the bobber stop idea for the Brad's KCP.
Also, one of my favourite lures is an Old Goat Lure in any colour 😁
Me, too. It's nicer than having to stack beads above the hook to get the clearance. Nice tip, that.
Haha, funny finding you here.
@@Unknownbrand haha. I love youtube. There's so much to learn everywhere.
@@FougereFamilyAdventures lol. Don't worry I'm not judging, I'm as much of a fishing addict as you.
@@Unknownbrand oh I'm not worried. I just cant fet enough of fishing videos. There are so many great ideas out there. 😃
Thank you for this. Precise, thoughtful and very helpful.
50/50 flame chartreuse small (#12 or 14) spin-n-glo with straight 1 1/2 inch piece of nightcrawler with a little "tail" past the hook bend. Shallow water early spring. 1960s to early 90s, before UV, dodgers, downriggers, etc.
wedding band and maggot is what we used to use. Man, miss kokanee fish, little beauties.
Best lure would be a hoochie with a colorado blade with two size 2 owner hooks tipped with corn
I have had great success being anchored and tossing a Nordic Jig and corn. Just on a spinning rod and let the setup flutter down through them.
Wedding ring is the goat Kokanee lure no question
With a dodger ?
@@h.ya.1702 iv always used cowbells
i always start with wedding ring and worm and switch when wife starts kickin but with her super duper
A green pink wedding ring smokes rainbow trout as well.
Wedding rings is the goat for most trolling techniques. I like em paired with ford fenders
never caught kokanee. but I'm buying my first boat around Christmas so come springtime I'm gonna try for some kokanee.
My go to is a pink sling blade in front of a cha cha with a smile blade and hot pink krill.
I've always been fond of wedding rings. They never fail me. They slay just about anything. They don't get enough credit in my opinion.
luhr jensen super duper , silver with red tip and willow leaf slays kokanee everytime
Salmon eggs pautskis preferably. It works great
Caution :The Eagle Claw has a short reel seat ! the only line of Okuma bait-caster reels that fit; is the awesome: Okuma Magda Pro line Depth Counter MA-20 ( DX =( right handed ) a perfect fit reel foot, for the rod seat.
Most all of my spinning/bait-casting with depth counters reels are spooled and all i do is match them to any type of fishing that's out there; some 36lb lead core with at least 6lb mono leader ( some set up with 6 lb with 4 lb leader mono to mono, Then 8,10 & 14 lb mono and ( some with 10-14 lb floro to minimum of 6lb mono leaders ) their reel foot also fits into the Eagle Claw reel seat.
Also This is a 2 piece rod ,Eagle Claw 8 foot 6" featherlight kokanee FL209C2-8'6 Casting Mod Light action rod . Have fun fishing
My eagle claw 7'6" is paired with a abu garcia max dlc and I love it. Picked up the rod for 20$ at Walmart. The rod is great and it can handle 2-3 Oz weight or big fish like the steelhead planted in some of our lakes.
Check the edit. Talked about tying lures and 12lb ss twice. Great vid. Love the channel!
Squatchland Adventures 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Whoops!!
Herzog's Rasticle….without a doubt.
Always have a collection of wedding rings in my box cause they work. After that its the kcp. Like the copper, but always had luck on fire Tiger patterns.
#1 of all time 2 #2 Gamakatsu wide gap finesse hooks with 1/2 wedding ring with a 1.2 Micro glo squid tipped with shoepeg corn 8 inch leader and Poulsen Cascade Half-Fast Arrow Flash UV Dodger i would be happy to fish with this alone forever...
Martin Fire-Stripe plastic wobbler (half white/half flame orange) behind Flashlights on Merwin near Woodland Park at the Indian Burial Mound in the mouth of Rock Creek. 45 years and nothing comes close...too bad the Martin Firestripe was discontinued and barely available, the rainbow colored Luhr Jensen Kokanee King is a distant 2nd place.
Can you find those anywhere?!
@@AddictedFishing nope, the last few I found were at a garage sale in Woodland. I found a solid red one and scraped it to make it look similar to no avail. Do you know where the indian burial mound at the mouth of Rock Creek is?
@@AddictedFishing just got one in an ebay auction, but hard to swap out after the stellar performance of dodgers and hoochies...will try tomorrow 6Jan23
Wedding ring Double whammy tipped w/night trimmed crawler (no night crawler beyond the back hook),
18” behind 4” dogger
Easy answer for the best kokanee lure...the Sonic BaitFish. Vertical jigging on a slow drift ...deadly. Keep it simple, uncomplicated and outfish trolling by staying over the kokanee rather than passing through them.
Have you tried chrounamids lately that's what I've been doing ice fishing and trolling with a Dodger black and red no bait outfishes other setups for my experience
I would go with a Micro pink Hoochi as my beginning color and size
This is super interesting, to see the west coast catch trout ....in Tennessee we use just corn or throw Rapala plugs like countdown 7 in gold or ghost green and pick up 20-30 a day 1/4 lb to 10 lb ....what brought me here is the kokanee, I bought some corn dye called that and being Cherokee wondered where the name came from ....any way have fun
These aren't trout. They are Land Locked Sockeye Salmon, called Kokanee.
The natives of British Columbia in the Kootenay region.....kokanee is their word for these fish.....hence Kokanee Beer
@@kokaneeoutdoors5188 I'm headed out to merwin today and I will be trying out a rapala countdown just to see if it produces.
I have had my best luck on a fish scale dodger down to twin treble hooks rigged with a 1.5 inch crawler
Wedding Ring! Regarding leader length, I have always been told that with dodgers to go 3 times the dodger length. You go shorter. Plz explain! Good info
I would guess for more action imparted from the dodger to the lure.
Awesome vid!👍
Great info, thanks man!
so what is it about corn specifically that Salmon like? It doesnt seem like a natural food option for them, do you have any ideas what would attract them to corn?
Great info
Been fishing a wedding ring tipped with white shoepeg corn about 14" behind a sling blade. What works better?
pink, gold, glow, and crystal flash rastical, small gold bead, pink glow bead, gold bead then either smile blade or micro spinning blade.
Wedding ring on Tahoe is bomb!!
Just bought new reels, and I’m new to Kokanee fishing.what mainline would you use and what pound test?
Hello where do you get your spin and glows I have search high and low I can not find them in bc canada
So if you start the day out would you start by a aggressive and a slower lure setup thanks Roy
what size are those spin and glows? and where do you get them i can not find them in canada
I saw a lot of fish approach my lures (saw on fish finder), why are they biting? can you give a few conditions why they did not bite.
What if in your state it is illegal to use corn what do you recommend?
Best videos of all times bow deep for the time of year next
What do you guys think about glow in the dark lures for kokanee?
Camerron im an old tackle maker and make a realy great
Kokanee lures that
I havent had a time
To try them out i hope
Your catching a limit
For every one
Hello I am new to this whole fishing thing. I fish in Washington State at Lake Roosevelt. When you are fishing with these lures you described do you put any bait on the lures or just leave them just the lures? May sound like dumb question but again I am new to this whole thing, and it is addicting :)
You need bait- pink corn kernels work well.
Franks Fly Box Kotton Kandy trolling fly with a moon jelly Simons dodger 3.5”.
Pink wiggle hootchie with a pink dyed corn kernal
Glow in the dark green nordic 2oz jig
How many different types (and sizes) of dodgers do you use?
Pink Spin n glo. Pink hootchie, Pink Apex, Pink wedding band. Not a fan of added bait or scents.
What is your typical rod and feel for kokanee
How about an action disc with a dodger?
I have caught more 3lb plus kokanee on pink 1.5 inch apex than anything else....will change one rod out frequently but seldom am I not running one
Hey Brad, this is an old post but how long of a leader do you guys run on the apex? Ive seen a few guys run them super long and one guy short maybe 18inch or so. Seen you comment a few times about the 1.5 apex figured id ask lol thanks bro
Pink Apex - Catches fish 3 to 1 over any lure
Cameron i am a old tackle maker i havr some
Wobbler lures that i paint
That makes the hoochy
Hooks id like to send you
One of my rigs that i use a crinkled rubber jigs that
Are moving under the
Wobbler
Mack's Lure pink smile blade kokanee hoochie
Which Kokanee Cut plug color and size is that?
How are you changing the lure leader length efficiently? Don't you have to retire the hooks to do that? Sorry noob here..
A red wedding ring spinner with a gold blade and tipped with corn.
Mac's Wedding bands with a glow hook
Why do you get the spin and glows I have search high and low can not get them in bc canada
Green Giant Steam Crisp White Shoepeg Corn 11 oz or 331g $1.79 US North West Montana
Pink Whiggle Hoochie with firecorn
I'm a newbie at fishing for Kokanee. Question: what are your minimum and maximum trolling speeds with the lures/rigs in this video.
Well done video and content. Thank you!
.8-1.8 mph
Green Giant Steam Crisp White Shoepeg Corn 11 oz or 331g $1.79 US North West Montana
How long is the hoochie your using?
Going for the first this weekend hope i do well thanks👍👍👊✌🙏
How large of sled do you think is safe for Merwin and yale Kokanee fishing?
gerig hanson You can be safe in small boats. Ive fished up there for years in 14-15 footers.
But you gotta make that call. If you aren’t comfortable or safe, don’t do it.
@@AddictedFishing Agreed. I've recently discovered Cle Elum Lake, and you can fish that with a small boat... right up until that westerly wind kicks up. That can get nasty in a hurry. I've fished a 12' Starcraft skiff on Sammamish, but it's normally the ski and wakeboard boats who provide the trip-ending peril there.
Nice👍
What size and type hooks are ya using?
Wedding ring and a worm was doing a good job last weekend
Apex trout killer in watermelon you will catch kokanee and mackinaw at lake Odell
Thanks I like
Hoochies with colorado blade!
Wedding ring w/ a stinger or a rocky mountain tackle plankton.
Wedding ring with UV paint trailer hook
Can you take me fishing lol j/k your great thanks I’m always learning
One lure forever for kokanee, orange needle fish w/ nickel head.
Or was it nickel w/ orange head? Gettin old.
What kinda corn are you useing
I use corn that has been sitting in oiled bloody tuna corn. The stuff is disgusting but this fish hit that stuff before you even get your line out all the way.