With everyone concentrating on Hunting and Fall Chinook, it leaves Odell Lake wide open this time of year. We have had great weather, with full sized fish and very little boat traffic. Odell Lake’s Kokanee are the latest spawning kokanee in the entire state. This is because of colder water temperature and a super…
When is “Prime” Kokanee Fishing? Just like every Salmon Species, Kokanee are full sized toward the end of August thru first part of September, depending on the lake temperature and elevation of the lake. I’m not saying you can’t catch kokanee year round, but to be honest with you I’m a fair weather fisherman. If I…
Ok people have been wondering why I haven’t been fishing very much this year, and to be honest with you sometimes life gets in way of your passion. With my son getting married, a dog with back issues, one dog with cancer, a deer with a arrow in it, and two acres to manage I’m…
With fishing reports not being very positive this year at Odell Lake, and with June being inconsistent at times the wife and I decided to pre-fish the lake before our first guided trip of the year. We started our morning on the east end of the lake and headed west. I wasn’t marking very many…
So I’ll be really honest with you guys I haven’t been Kokanee fishing since last October and I was alittle worried about being rusty before my first guided trip of the season. I’ve moved my operation over the the east end of the lake and was somewhat worried about working for new owners, new location,…
If your looking to pick up some oversized Kokanee this year in Oregon, get that boat geared up and head over to Wickiup Reservoir. The fishing isn’t, “Red Hot” but with the opportunity to pick up fish over 20 inches it will make the lower numbers worth it. Orange and Gold are hot color’s for…
We were super excited about coming to the lake this weekend. We knew with all the warm weather throughout the week that the water temperature was going to start to rise and the kokanee would start to school up. Water temperature went up 7 degrees by this weekend, which caused two things to happen, there…
We were really excited to go fishing for three days over Memorial Day weekend, after dialing in the lake the weekend of the 18th the expectation was to have three epic days of fishing. This weekend we took our really good friend Barb Baxter, who helps us out a ton with our business. The secret…
Early Season at Odell Lake May 2015 Now I remember why I told myself not to fish at 4700 feet until July….. It’s cold, windy and unpredictable. The fish were scattered all over the water column. We caught fish anywhere from 10 feet to 120 feet deep. We struggled the first two days, but ended…
When you think about kokanee fishing, you think about getting out of the city limits driving for a couple hours and hitting the great outdoors. When you look at American Lake, which is just south of Tacoma Washington, it is what I would call the greatest urban fisheries around for kokanee. The main reason for…
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