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I don't aspire to be big. Just useful.

And that is why we keep coming back!

Nearly verbatim, I’ve said it over and over. This channel is great, info heavy, and derives a following that wants nitty gritty and desire to learn.

@@spiltmilt Everyone of your videos, I have watched dozens, are both very useful and entertaining. The hooks one helped me because I also noticed an uptick in catch and keep vs losses after i switched to the lazer sharp needlepoint. I have thought for the last couple years I lost to many using the gami octopui hooks

@@TacomaSteelhead Totally agree..

Flaming gorge is the best

Not the first time I've done that! LOL. Luckily they generally float.

Just limited at Yale for the first time yesterday. Wwwoooooo!

Awesome! Congratulations. They are sure tasty.

Congrats 🥳

This might sound silly, but I’ve noticed in a lot of videos you seem to be circling the same area. Once you find the fish, do you just make multiple passes with different types of gear? And how many passes would you recommend before switching gear or moving on? Thank you!

At least two passes. I tend to change gear infrequently

@@spiltmilt Awesome. Thank you!

Great suggestion!

I use big and small dodgers when fishing shallow

I am using the Santiam Fishing Rods bit.ly/30xH6r5. I did get rid of the Bluebacks. They are a great rod for smaller Kokes but would be out-gunned by these fish. However, I decided to stop fishing Swate rods due to some of the policies of that company towards its employees.

Spilt Milt Productions Aweosme thanks for the reply! I picked an Okuma SST Kokanee rod and I will be headed out to Yale next weekend to give it a try!

Too funny. I just finished filming a video on Kokanee hooks. I use Gamakatsu split shot drop shot hooks size 4 for Chelan size 2 for Roosie but I also use other hooks on occasiona

I have mainly been fishing chelan this year and switched to Gamakatsu finesse wide gap size 2. I have had a much better land rate with these hooks. I had been using the octopus hooks. Excited to try the wide gap on sockeye!!

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Spilt Milt Productions thanks a bunch!

Yes that works too.

But obviously in a kayak you probably don’t want doubles😀

Typically 6-10" though sometimes longer. I seem to catch more fish at 6-8"

Water temperature influences Kokanee in many ways. They prefer mid-50's so when those water temps are available near the surface they will feed there unless some alternate food source is available at depth (e.g. mysis shrimp). In water temps below 40 F they are more sluggish and I often do better trolling close to 1 mph. Once temps hit the mid 60's or higher the stress can actually kill them and I've had lakes in the Okanogan where I am fishing at 30' and if I pull a fish up above the thermocline they go into shock and die even if they don't make it to the net.

The thermocline will show up on most modern fish finders as a thin line typically between 20-60' on Pacific Northwest Lakes. It's very easy to identify.

Small Rapalas trolled at 2 to 2.5 mph is my go to for those big Roosie Bows.

@@spiltmilt Thanks. I'll give it a try.

Not sure. I do what is comfortable.

June 9

No I've heard they are really tiny.

You are not wrong. 😂

Lake Roosevelt

Thanks for the info!

Corn

@@spiltmilt Thank you so just bait hook behind the flasher?

yup one kernel per hook

Releasing fish after they are dead is not recommended!!!

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