will be in an area to fish for kokanee on the long weekend. would like to know more for set up of rigs to fish for them. been along time since i have fished for them back then was using buddy's setup and forgot how he had it setup.
mike
I use a large weight that slipped on the line then had a rubber leader, willow leaf/ford fender and then about 2-4' of line with a wedding ring at the end. It has been a while since I fished for Kokanee but it work last time.
with the set up and have had my best luck going as slow as possible. I don't know the formula but 100 ft of line being trolled will not sink anywhere near 100 ft. This is one of the reasons to troll in the figure 8 pattern. It gives the rig a decent chance to sink at a controlled rate.
GOOD LUCK and enjoy
Tony
I caught quite a few kokanee with gold and silver #4 and 6 panther martin spinners when I was a kid. Lately I caught a few off the dock on mara lake with woolly buggers and small streamer patterns.
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Use a Ford Fender with a trailing wedding band. Add about an ounce of weight to get it down. Tip the wedding band with 3 or 4 maggots (This is the key to success. No maggots, no action). Troll slow. Very slow. You should just be going fast enough to slowly turn the Ford Fender. There not a big fish, so it is hard to feel the bite with all that tackle.
I have had a little luck using 17# leadcore with about a 50' leader of 10# flourocarbon. I was letting out around seven to eight colours to get deep enough. The only down side to it was the amount of line out caused us to loose a few more fish than we would have liked.
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