Kokes

We spent last evening and night at Lemon Reservoir chasing the Kokes. We finally got them figured out, using a bit of weight, some flashers, and a lure called a "wedding ring" tipped with anise soaked shoepeg corn. While chanting and burning incense, I boiled some star anise and let it reduce a bit then soaked a can of corn in the solution add an eye of newt, and your corn is ready. Seems to do the trick, and has a nice anisey smell. Are the flashers necessary? The corn? The scent!??!? It's kind of a ridiculous set of rituals and in the future I'll try to test and see if they're necessary. A guy who lives near the lake chatted with us today and said he does just fine with just a wedding ring... He also reported catching a 24" Brown near the inlet. Last night the kokes were biting like crazy and I was having a helluva time trying to get them in the boat. Every time I'd get them near the boat *bink* and they'd pop off and swim away.

This morning I tried to test theory that I developed yesterday... The theory goes like this "Kokanee won't bite until you have both hands occupied doing something else." You can watch the rod all day and nothing, then look away and try to make a sandwich and boom, mustard hands on the rod. That sounds kinda dirty. Anyyyyyway.... It proved true, as soon as I had both hands occupied the fish started slammin away. We're going back for more and will report what we find. Edit: Yeah, all the stuff is necessary... Well.. You can catch them here and there without it but they're not really that fun to catch so the object is figure out how many you wanna eat that night, and catch them as quickly as possible. After that you can go fish for browns and have fun.