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[Noahs Arc]

Well I don't get out to this lake very often, but Rodney's video/report gave me the kick in the pants to load up the ol tinny and try my luck.
Fished Kawkawa from roughly 10:30 to around 5. Took a couple hours to find the groove but managed to get 3 early and tried for the big guy for a few hours. Managed a Pretty nice limit, and even got a chance to see "the master" at work. I think at one point the fish were just jumping in his boat.....
Most of the fish came on chrome dodgers with red/green wedding band long lined. Tried a small weight on the line at first but they were liking it up top. Had a couple to the boat anchored chronie fishing black/brown ice cream cone.
All in all a great day with about 15 fish to the boat.

[liketofish]

Thanks for the report. How do you fish the wedding band? I look at the wedding band sold at Walmart. It seems to be a small spinner with some red/chartreuse beads and then a bare hook. The hook trails the spinner quite a bit. So do the fish bite the bare hook? Or do you put some bait on the hook like a quill.

Me and my friend were there today. We didn't know how to troll. The weather was cold and we managed to catch 4 only on quill. We didn't have 4lb flurocarbon, so that is probably why the fish didn't care much about our quill.    We had 2 at bottom and 2 with float. But the weather is too brutal to stay. Actually it hailed a little bit and windy. So a tough day.

[Fish Assassin]

You mean Krill ?

[liketofish]

Thanks FA. It shows how new I am to Kokanee fishing.    Two guys fishing 10 hours only 4 bites. That is quite miserable compared to others who were limiting out. Need to learn from 'the master' or at least I will get some krill and colour cure/dye from his store next trip. Our krill bought from aquarium store just not good. Actually 3 of the 4 fish were taken from some nicely coloured krills given to us as a gift by a nice guy. When we used up all his krills, so went our luck. He knows 'the master' and he fishes from a 16 ft power boat. He even told us he recently fished with Rodney. Super nice and helpful guy indeed.

[Noahs Arc]

When the fishing is hot you can troll with just the wedding band. If fishing is tough I'll throw on a small dodger size 4/0. Even with the small dodger it takes away alot of the fight which is why I think most guys bait fish with krill, but I have to be in the right mood to sit still and bait fish. Even if I'm just sitting doing nothing while trolling I still feel like I'm being more productive. LOL. I've never trolled with krill on the hook but I think it would affect the action of the lure. Sometimes I just put a single kernel of corn on the hook of the wedding band but quite often troll and have success without it. You could also try scents.
I'm a krill newbie myself (with dyeing my own) but I don't think it would matter what brand cure as it's just to color it. I chose pautzkes just because they advertise it has krill scent. I know.... Scenting krill with krill??