This was my first trip to clear this year, and was excited and hoping to catch my first koke. I wanted to try out my dual rod holder on the downrigger. It's also my first year for a 2 pole tag. Well I tell ya, stacking requires a lot more physical motion than I was ready for at 7:00am. After realizing how it works, I finally started catching fish, but couldn't put them in the boat. I lost 3 fish trying to net them at the boat. So I sat down to figure out what I was doing wrong. then it hit me, why am I netting a 10 inch fish. The next 3 fish were safely in the live well. All in all, I had a lot of fun. I caught 3 trout, and 2 kokes. I was at the west end, but did better on the south side. The line was 11 and 21ft, in 50-60 ft of water. Later in the day I dropped to 20 and 30ft on the line. I lost 3 fish while reeling in, I lost 3 kokes at the net, and put 5 in the live well. I started out with d.n. pink splatter dodger with bloody mary on one pole and d.n. chart hot head with orange thing (because I like the fire tiger blade) on the other. I also used pink splatter squiddy thing,and pink ice. They were all tipped with shoepeg corn, with either garlic or anise scent. I left at 11:15 all tuckered out.

First post.
I hit the water shortly after 8. It was my second trip to Clear Lake. Last week I found how easy it was to find trout, trolled a fly tipped with a green label Pautske egg away from the boat launch and was releasing my first trout within two minutes.
This trip I wanted to target Kokanee. I kept 5 and released as many. By far the most effective method was pop gear and a pink wedding band tipped with maggots. I swear all of the fish were from the same mama. They may have been quintuplets. They were all the same size!
Great day fishing.

Since it took awhile to get my first fish yesterday I slept in ½ hour more this morning. So I launched about 6:30am and lost my Pink Splatter dodger and Bloody Mary that did well yesterday on a snag. I retied a new lure that I had made and forgot about with another Dick Nite Pink Splatter Dodger. I don’t want to find myself without one of these. I once again used Dick Nite DNA in kokanee scent. My other rod had the Watermelon dodger and the Bloody Mary.

I caught my fish between 11-21 feet in anywhere from 50-70 feet of water in the 2 hours I was there. I worked the west end of the lake. Trolling north and south. The guys who still fish in the green boats really do get there limits fast!.
I caught my last kokanee, the smallest which became lunch, by trolling by the still fishers. The green boats were gone. I hooked 3 before I got the one in.

Lunch was potato salad, applesauce, and deep fried panko kokanee. This is a great way to use small kokanee.
In conclusion it was a very nice 4 days of limits.


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I met my brother, Richard, at the launch at 6am. But he got there a little after 5am. Just before I got there a guy with a Boston whaler type boat tried to launch. He was still there when I arrived but parked with the boat in the overload trailer area. Anyway as he started to launch, my brother thought that he might be handicapped because he was shaky when he got out of the vehicle to go to the back and push the boat off. He ended up falling over the trailer tongue with his but up in the air and his head under water. My brother grabbed him and got him out of the water. The guy was wasted! He mentioned he shouldn’t have partied the night before...ya think! Richard got my net and scooped up his phone and the credit cards that were in the lake. Gave them to him where he was trying to warm up in his truck. He left by the time I got ready and launched.

Kokanee_Slayer was there early and left quickly with his limit!

I had tied up 2 new lures to try. Gave one to my brother and he had a trout on in 2 minutes of putting it in the water by the launch. I used the other new lure and hooked fish, too. Of course I was still using those AWESOME Dick Nite dodgers in Pink Splatter and Watermelon. I even gave my brother a Watermelon dodger to use, also. He had just been using a 1/4 oz weight and the lure. We hooked many fish, several jumped and got off. He put on a 1/2oz weight and switched to a Bloody Mary and caught some more.

It was a good day of hooking and we did get our limit but a lot got off, mostly when they jumped. They were all in the 10-11 inch size. We were out there a little under 4 hours but about 45 minutes was waiting to get into the launch and then take the boat out. The sun was shining and there wasn’t a breeze. The forecast for today was 82.


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I had the alarm set for 4:30am. I am excited for the mornings’ trip to Clear Lake since it will the first this year. Reality: Awake at 3:30am back hurts, I liked the chicken last night but my stomach didn’t. Therefore, I couldn’t sleep.
I don’t care I am going to chance it and go. I leave the house about 5:15am. At Clear 5:30am. Shock!! Not a soul there. I get everything ready and launch just before 6 and now the boats start showing up.
Right away I got some rainbows that got off at the boat. It can’t be helped, I guess, since the WDFW planted 14,800 of them in this small lake.
Then the fishfinder quit working as I troll down the north side of the lake. I unplug it and start it back up again but the screen only shows for a second. Drat! I will have to wing it on a prayer.
So I am over by the east end and south side when I get a fish at 11 feet. The sun is in my eyes as I am watching the rods and I figure it to be a bow. I am waiting for it to come off and it won’t. Remember I have been blinded by the sun and can’t really tell what the fish is. So I grab the fish that WON’T come off and it is a kokanee!
I go around in circles trying to get more bites but there isn’t anything. Then I think...I will try putting the fishfinder on my other battery.
After my previous outings I brought an extra battery and a paddle. I switched the fishfinder battery and turn it on. It works! Thank you, Jesus! Time to get rid of that other battery.
I am working the middle of the south side and I only have the one fish. I need to use the restroom so I angle that direction. I get to the middle of the lake, in about 60 feet of water, downrigger is stacked, 30 foot and 20 foot. I get a hit off the bottom clip. Get it netted and before I can get it unhooked my other rod goes down. Take that rod out of the holder and make sure the fish is still there. Dump the fish out of the net into the boat, then dip the net into the water and get my third fish. Rerig and try again. I have a few more bites but only one fish again. No more doubles. Total of four.
I have to use the restroom so I figure I will come back out for my last one. Now there are a lot of boats lined up to come in.
I get back in my boat to go get that one last one. Just past the first buoy going south and west in front of the tan high dive, I get one on in 46 feet of water at 20 feet. Now I am thinking this is a rainbow but as I get the net and the fish comes close I see it is a koke. Before I can net it (it is close to the boat) it jumps in to the boat! I am not lying! It had been jumping and it just jumped into the boat! What a day! My first day at Clear and my first limit of all kokanee.
I used Dick Nite Watermelon and Pink Splatter dodgers with Wannafish A Lures’ Pink Splatter Squiddy Thing (and a variance of it). It was blinding bright out but still cool. I fished from 6-8ish.


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