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Stevens Lake Report
Snohomish County, WA

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04/30/2017
56° - 60°
Trolling
Kokanee
Corn
Silver-Gold
Cloudy
Spoons
Morning
51° - 55°
04/30/2017
5
1827

I arrived at O'dark thirty, and was actually the first in the lot at the city launch. Strange day weather wise. Rain, wind, clouds, sun. A bit of everything at different times. In all I landed 8 fish, I had 6 more get off on the way in, and another 5 more get off with the net in my hand. So while I didn't quite limit out, I did have a lot of action, include multiple double hook ups, of which I only landed both once. Fun but at time frustrating day. That's Kokanee fishing though I guess. Rated the day a 5 because of all of the fish I had on, not even counting the takedowns that did not stick.

Once again the Elgin Fishing God's tooth spoon in 50/50 modified for kokanee by Reli lures had all of the action. It's been preforming so well that I did not even try running anything else today. Both lines had the 50/50 paired with a Dick Nite dodger in clown pattern, 12-13 inches of leader. 1 line off the downrigger set anywhere between 6-8 feet (I did drop it down lower to some marks a few times during lulls in the action, but got nothing for it) and the other line had 1/4 ounces of lead putting it probably 5-7 feet down. Fish ranged between 12 - 14 1/2 inches today.

Water temp today started at 53.5 and got up to 54.5 when I left. Fish will probably start moving down the water column a bit in the coming weeks, which will probably get them to school up a bit more and make for even more consistent action. They seemed to like between 1 - 1.25mph today.

When I got home to check the Go-Pro, I was bummed to discover that when I deleted last weeks trip, I had neglected to set the camera back to 1 touch record. I thought I had recorded the whole trip today, but actually recorded nothing :)


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ElginFishing
5/1/2017 8:30:54 AM
Excellent report! Sounds like a challenging time but very rewarding with all the action. I understand the video snafu, I've already had a few myself. So much stuff going on when you're fishing. I'll look forward to the next one:) Looks like the 13" leader was the ticket, nice!
ElginFishing
5/1/2017 9:18:58 AM
Excellent report! Sounds like a challenging time but very rewarding with all the action. I understand the video snafu, I've already had a few myself. So much stuff going on when you're fishing. I'll look forward to the next one:) Looks like the 13" leader was the ticket, nice!
Yatabata
5/1/2017 11:22:22 AM
Yes the gopro us fun but the setup is annoying and when home downloading and edit is also time consuming. The final result is awesome and we'll worth it. Unless you don't get any like I did the last time out. Still nice to be out on the lake. I need to try that lake out this year. Looks like fun.
lukestern77
5/2/2017 12:28:34 PM
I need to get out there. I started losing less Kokes when I started using a snubber. Those darn soft mouths. Just a thought.
JoshH
5/2/2017 4:19:40 PM
I would blame it on the downrigger except that 80% of my fish that day came on, and off the other line *shrug* It was just one of those days
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