I'm in northern NV and I plan to bring the boat up there sometime soon. Looks like a beautiful lake. Great vid. Dig your kayak.

I like you attitude and dedication to finding and catching larger kokes. A small group of us tried W. Lake back in 2012 and did lousy. We are experienced at the game but had very marginal luck, but a lot of fun trying.

I have long desired to experience that fishery, thanks for continuing to share your experience with quality content and information.

I caught a couple at Strawberry Reservoir late last summer that were 20+". I didn't get tons of numbers but man they were huge! They seemed to only be dumb for the first hour and a half of light. Only downside was that I had to wade through tons of cutthroat trout.

I just started fishing for Kokanee, and enjoyed several of your videos.

I know this is an old video but man i love your content. Its always entertaining and educational, keep the great videos coming man.

Just got into Kokanee fishing, living 30minutes from Lake Merwin in Battle Ground. My parents live an hour from Wallowa lake and I spent 30yrs going there, knowing nothing about the Kokanee population until recently. Super exited to give it a shot in a couple months.

Wow those are some brutes! Great video!

Great video!

Lake Wallawa is beautiful and puts out some studs!!!

Thanks for another great video! You should do a pink salmon video since it's an odd year.

I just watched 3 of your videos, and enjoyed all 3. keep them coming.

Fun vid, great job!

Thanks for another great video and all the good info.

15 or so years ago, lake had some 10#

Still ridiculous how you slay this lake. And heard finally the name of the lake.

Gotta come visit us up here in canada! Buddy got a 23in 6lb fish in Kal this past year, they have been getting bigger and bigger the last few year. Hope the trend stays that way for 2020.

Looks like Wallowa Lake

I love this lake

nice fish! id like to know more about yak set up...

I really enjoy your videos! Thanks for making them. I am a kayak fisherman as well and I live near Fontenelle Reservoir. I am also about 100 miles from the Flaming Gorge. I just set up a Hobie compass this year and used some of your set up ideas. If you are ever this way to fish. I would love to go with you. I live in Wyoming.

I so much miss salmon fishing in the PNW

Hauser reservoir here in Montana produced Kokanee up to 10 pounds for several years and now nothing. Very odd.

Hi,..just want to thank you for your Vids! Caught a huge kokanee today on Kalamalka in BC Canada. 21/ 1/4 inch,..weight was 4.75 lbs after 2 hrs on boat(my pfofile pic). A true hog..I am wondering if you have ever fished here? If you can jump the border I would suggest doing it this year! lol..thanks for all your help,..saved me at least 2 years.

Amazing.

Not gonna mention the lake you fished?

I’ve been watching your Kokanee videos trying to gather enough information to be able to fish lake Koocanusa in B.C. with some success. As the fish are only8 to 10”, would you still use size 4 hooks?

dude, Nice!!!

Seriously anyone who wants to catch a nice sized kokanee should be paying attention here. No downrigger needed...

The lake near me I catch 20in plus Kokanee pretty regularly

You can troll two poles at once? Thought oregon only allowed 1 pole in the water

This was a huge S E C R E T.... For many years, and more than 20-years ago it was EASY to catch stringers of 15" to 20" Koke's ... B U T.... The word got out, and in recent years it seems near impossible to catch any better than 10" to 12" and the numbers are also down. About 25-yrs ago my youngest daughter and I caught (15) HUGE Trout in a 20 minute span, at the Eagle Cap sign. We couldn't hardly get our lines in the water, and we had FISH-ON... Many times doubles within 10' of the boat. A side note, we didn't eat fish back then and ALL fish were R E L E A S E D.... I'm guessing that in the ( 8 - 10 ) years that we went there,we caught over ONE THOUSAND total fish between Koke's / Rainbow's many 50 rainbow days. and a couple days of over ( 100 ) They still stock with TROPHY Rainbows many to (10) POUNDS... Now I never caught one of those monsters, but my share of (5) pounder's. I caught many Kokanee that were pounders, and my largest koke was around (3) pounds. I lost several that I would swear were MONSTERS... However I was DEEP and could have also been Mac's, not sure. Great Video.

Awesome! Love your videos man, keep em coming

Where do you get the pole holder extensions at

Great video! What is the blue rod you are using? Thanks!

Headed there next week. I’m a beginner Kokanee fisherman...do I just use the same lures/hooks (wedding rings & hoochies) as I do for the smaller ones I’m catching on Lake Merwin? Thanks for all the content!

Rip tackle box

Where are these Lakes located that you're fishing these Kokanee

Hey I'm on one of your Facebook groups for fishing in Washington. Do you wear a drysuit? I don't currently have one and it seems to be extremely frowned upon in my community anyway. Just curious thanks man. Learning alot from you here recently.

Cool video, did you get back your tackle box?

What month was this? I’m guessing September?

Apparently they just found some toxic barrels of who knows what in the lake lol

Take your pass down when you're driving.

Let’s talk salmon from known information about the species. A salmon returns to its home stream to spawn every 3 or 4 years depending on the species. When a stream becomes damed and fish are land locked your only going to have whatever is upstream at the time to become your present Kokanee in that lake. You could have one or two years of large fish and then those fish head upstream to spawn and die. Following year will be smolt to 5”, year two you will start to see fish just under legal size and year three you back into worthy fish. A land lock event happens all at once and there will only be one lifecycle of fish in that lake. You could have coho and chinook in there at once so you could have two nice years Kokanee fishing in a lake before the cycle starts over. So take note, this year is big fish in lake X…. Three years later there will be good fish in lake X again. And no, releasing a bunch of other fish to even the years out will cause increased preditation leading to lower overall numbers.