Previous Next

Deep Lake has been on my Bucket List as a lake I wanted to check out. JoAnn and I hit the lake on a Saturday, one other boater putting in, gave NWFR a shout out, thank you sir! Weather conditions were perfect, partly sunny, calm, 60s with a forecast of seventies. We had our dogs Duke and Kenji along, first time for both of them on the boat. They did great!

The lake is a long, narrow lake with several deep spots down to 100 feet. Because of the length it appears bigger than it's recorded 100 acres. On either side rock cliffs rise up, and fly in and out of nests all along the lake.

I started us off with two rods on riggers, and two on leaded lines. As the morning progressed the leaded lines got put away. I stacked rods for awhile but eventually we just used two rods as the action from 11-1230 became none-stop. We fished the riggers at 22 and 27 feet. The hot rig of the day was the new double spinner lure in Chartreuse from Old Goat. It was hitting 4:1 vrs everything else. Eventually my second rod, an Old Goat kokanee i green/yellow, also started getting steady hits. Set backs were around 30 feet. Trolling speed 1.2 to 1.5. These kokanee don't seem to be very shy, at least not on this day...

We ended the day around 1pm with a boat limit of 20 kokanee. They aren't huge, running 9-11", but as you can see in the picture they smoked up really nice. Quality is fun, but quantity works for me - whatever the lake gives up I'm happy just being on the water!

This is a nice, out of the way, seldom fished kokanee lake. Check it out if you get the chance, but don't wait too long as it is in Central Washington and come summer it will be HOT!

salmonbarry

5/31/2020 9:33:58 AM

Mike that is one of my favorite lakes and my wife and I usually make it a mother's day tradition to fish it. Yeah they are not too big this time of year but agreesive and plentiful and you can't beat the peace and beauty of that lake! Just beware of that launch as it is super slippery once you leave the concrete and the submerged part is aweful. Glad you and Joanne got to enjoy it!

salmonbarry

5/31/2020 9:38:44 AM

For those of you that do go, do be careful of the ramp and it is a 5 MPH limit on gas motors. Also you'll find nothing but trout until your depth drops from 35 feet to 100 feet so we just wait to put the lines down until we are in the deeper water. But they did plant some of the tagged trout this year and last for the statewide derby in case that is something you want to target! Plus they usually plant some jumbos in there! See you on the water!

Mike Carey

5/31/2020 9:58:29 AM

thanks for the added information Salmonbarry!

oldgoatlures

6/19/2020 7:55:43 AM

Mike: Thanks for putting the new dual-blade spinners to work! Appreciate it!

Leave a Comment:

Login

Flag

×

Why is this comment inappropriate?

Close Submit

Delete this comment? Provide reason.

No Yes

Edit

×

Cancel Save