Jigging Up Some Good Kokes Flaming Gorge Late May 2024
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Don answers some requests from viewers wanting to know how to jig for kokanee. Don uses his fish finders, a Garmin LiveScope as well as a Lowrance Live unit to locate and target small schools of aggressive and excited kokanee. Don uses 52-inch rods with Quantum reels and monofilament as well as braided lines, with Don" pet name for his kokanee jigs, made by Christenson Tackle Company. Don calls them "Coltonators" after the founder of Christenson Tackle. He used chartreuse and pink spoons tipped with Berkley maggots to match the colors.
Don fished on the Wyoming side of the reservoir this day, although most of his kokanee jigging in 2024 had been on the Utah side, in the canyon. Don believes that the lack of patience when jigging for kokanees is the single biggest challenge for people attempting to learn his method.
Without a doubt, however, Don's ability to use his fish finders to locate the "right" schools of fish, and his ability to "stay" on top of the fish with spot lock on his Minn Kota Ulterra trolling motor are keys to his success.
Don used a Lund Fisherman 1875, with a Mercury 150 hp four stroke enging.
Awesome! I was up there the last 3 days too (buckboard). I would love to see a video on how to attempt to distinguish kokes from Lakers or rainbows on your fish finder. The best I can tell so far is that the pups are grouped up around 40-70’ deep and if I see a much tighter group (red cloud on the graph) come in 20-30’ down I think they are kokes but sometimes they end up being bows too🤷♂️. I would love to learn more about this. (We had a hard time getting spot-locked and getting lures down to them before they disappeared until the last day when we sat on a continuous school of small pups and caught like 20 in 4 hours time. No size but fun!)
i will try to put something together. You are not necessarily incorrect with what you are doing BUT the key to it all is catching fish. Simple as that. You catch a fish and you are almost there. Next, you notice which fish respond to your lures and which do not. Most of the time, no bites means they are kokes.
Great video! Get well!
Thanks. I already feel better.
Heading up with my family (including 3 fishing obsessed boys) to Manila on Friday for 3 days. Setup for pretty much any species and method. Any general areas from Manila to hit for good fish numbers? We have always camped in the Dutch John area so Manila will be new territory. Thanks for any advice!
Enjoyed your video! A bit more views of close up of fish finder views and training would be nice. Great job as usual,
I will try to do more close ups. The challenge is that I am usually by myself when filming and the one thing I cannot figure out how to do is jig my rod while staying close with the camera on the screen. But, I will do my best to help out.
what is the big red blob on the screen near the end, are those schools of fish?
Yup fish on the graphics
That was the bottom. I was fishing a shelf coming out from a cliff. The kokes were holding about 10 feet off the shelf.
Subbed! Great video and commentary! Can't wait to actually try this out at some point i'm just so stuck in my ways trolling and im efficient. Once thing I really like though is that Garmin screen compared to my Lowrance. Sure looks cleaner and easier to read. I can't believe how clear they show up. What kind of transducer are you using with that... it looks like you have it mounted on the side? Thanks!
The transducer for LiveScope is an LVS 34. And, yest, I have it mounted on the side of the gunwale of the boat. When I had my bass boat, i had a turret mounted on the side of my trolling motor which allowed me to use a foot pedal to turn the transducer around. So, it is not the best to have it on the side, but I can't think of anything better right now.
thanks for another great video! my biggest question is how you find these schools? do you just slow motor around until you find marks and then spot lock?
I simply look around starting in the main channel. i look for "clouds" on the finder.. Many of them are just immature kokanees or even other types of minnows, but THEY will lead me towards the mouths of coves. Then, i slowly move (on my electric trolling motor) towards the back of the cove looking for fish in the same basic depths as the 'clouds" in the main channel. Believe it or not, that's it. Just this year, I have found kokanees in 20 or more coves from Anvil down to Carter Creek.
@@doafish that’s awesome thank you. I’ll be out there in 2 weeks and will try this.
Whose voice?
Mine but with a few allergies. When are you coming fishing with me?
@@doafish Love to go with you. I have no gear for that kind of fishing though.
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