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Well I was going to give fishing for Silvers North of the 520 Bridge another shot but thought better of it. Instead I hit up the North end of Mercer Island in search of some Cutts and Kokes. I found a school of fish on the finder 25' down and lowered my offering, no sooner had I put my rod in the holder and fish-on! Nice little kokanee about 11" long, so in the box he went. A couple of minutes later I lost the next Kokanee at the boat and a few minutes after that I released a 14" cutt. Now I usually use scent on my lures but with the way things were going I'd legally be done fishing in the next few minutes so I switched to a little larger lure without scent and targeted the cutts. Fishing down between 45' and 55', in the next 2 hours released 3 more cutts between 12" and 17" and kept one 19" fish that went 3lbs. The last fish of the day was a nice 14" Kokanee hen, that produced some very nice egg skeins. The surface water temp was between 61 and 62 degrees which kept the fish nice and feisty all the way up to the boat and helped those that were released to live another day. I did note that the surface temp of the East Channel was a bit higher, 63 to 64 degrees, than the main part of the lake and the thermocline varied in depth throughout the lake. I was surprised to see very few boats on the lake fishing, I figured with the break in the weather, more folks would be out.

SlimySlab

10/6/2008 9:12:00 AM

Nice report G-Man! Nice to hear someone is fishing for trout. Strange to see you got into 3-4 Kokanee's. Do they hit larger spoons, like in the #2 &3's or just smaller spoons?

G-Man

10/6/2008 9:34:00 AM

SlimySlab, The kokes on this lake are a weird bunch, I catch them using all sorts of gear especially if I'm trolling fast. The ones they really hit are the 11/2" to 2" spoons tipped with a little bait. I've tried using larger spoons and lures for the cutts but have not had much luck and have not hooked into any kokes using them. However, if you do use larger spoons and lures make sure you can identify a chinook at a good distance and be sure to release them. Lake Washington has a population of resident blackmouth, as I've caught a few, and they tend to hit the larger stuff.

SlimySlab

10/6/2008 6:49:00 PM

Hmmm tipped with a little bait. I've tried that before but found it altered the "flutter" of the spoon. You have no problems, though?
I've done well this May June and July for cutts. No Kokanee's and maybe 6 chinnoks which I seem to be able to identify from both the purplish flash and of course, the way they fight.,

Keep fishing and good luck. Us trout guys need more reports. JC

Jeff_e_d

10/6/2008 9:16:00 PM

I've caught small blackmouth on coyote spoons as well. I'm wondering how you know they are resident and not migratory?

G-Man

10/6/2008 10:49:00 PM

Jeff, any chinook you catch that is more than 6" long should be out at sea growing huge not hanging out in Lake Washington. If you catch a good sized fish between October and May and it's chrome bright, it's most likely a resident as it should changing colors and heading up river to spawn.

Rollin with Rolland

10/6/2008 11:06:00 PM

Nice work G-man. great looking fish and way to be productive. more good fall fishing to come....!!

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