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Kokanee and Mackinaw bites wide-open at Lake Tahoe
BY PAT YOUNG/WON Staff WriterPublished: Jul 13, 2012
LAKE TAHOE — All the charter boat operators contacted by WON this past weekend at Lake Tahoe indicated that the kokanee and mack fishing was excellent. Some boats were picking up limits of kokanee trolling, and then switching over to macks and catching limits of lakers drifting bait, trolling or jigging.
“The mack bite was wide-open for me all this past week on the backside of the full moon and the quality was the best I’ve experienced all year,” Chuck Self at Chuck’s Charter Fishing said. “I had limits by 8:45 a.m. on all my trips and fish were big chunky, beautiful macks running 6 to 12 pounds. The fish were shallower than one would expect and feeding heavily on crawdads.”
“I’ve been starting my trips trolling for kokanee off Emerald Bay and Camp Richardson, and then switching over to trolling or jigging for Mackinaws,” Mike Nielsen at Tahoe Top Liners reported. “On my Saturday trip, we trolled for kokanee and picked up 15 fish using silver flasher or dodger/hoochie, spinner, or Apex combos tipped with Pautzke’s red or white Fire Corn at 30 to 40 feet deep. We headed over to Homewood and dropped the 2- to 4-ounce Williamson Abyss, Vortex, and Benthos jigs in blue mackerel and green mackerel down to 85 to 120 feet deep and picked up 16 macks and a 6-pound rainbow in 30 minutes — now that’s wide-open fishing!!”
John Shearer at Tahoe Sportfishing reported good action on both macks and kokes. On his last trip he scored 27 kokanee and 20 macks for 10 clients. The kokes ran 12 to 15 inches and hit from 35 to 70 feet deep off Ski Run and the Tahoe Keys. The males were larger and deeper than the females. The macks were hitting live minnows bounced on the bottom on three-way rigs at 80 to 100 feet deep off Dollar Point and other north shore spots.
MICKEY AND NIECE Katherine Myers (CSUS student), of Roseville caught this fish on an early morning trip.
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LAKE TAHOE — All the charter boat operators contacted by WON this past weekend at Lake Tahoe indicated that the kokanee and mack fishing was excellent. Some boats were picking up limits of kokanee trolling, and then switching over to macks and catching limits of lakers drifting bait, trolling or jigging. “The mack bite was wide-open for me all this past week on the backside of the full moon and the quality was the best I’ve experienced all year,” Chuck Self at Chuck’s Charter Fishing said. “I had limits by 8:45 a.m. on all my trips and fish were big chunky, beautiful macks running 6 to 12 pounds. The fish were shallower than one would expect and feeding heavily on crawdads.” “I’ve been starting my trips trolling for kokanee off Emerald Bay and Camp Richardson, and then switching over to trolling or jigging for Mackinaws,” Mike Nielsen at Tahoe Top Liners reported. “On my Saturday trip, we trolled for kokanee and picked up 15 fish using silver flasher or dodger/hoochie, spinner, or Apex combos tipped with Pautzke’s red or white Fire Corn at 30 to 40 feet deep. We headed over to Homewood and dropped the 2- to 4-ounce Williamson Abyss, Vortex, and Benthos jigs in blue mackerel and green mackerel down to 85 to 120 feet deep and picked up 16 macks and a 6-pound rainbow in 30 minutes — now that’s wide-open fishing!!” John Shearer at Tahoe Sportfishing reported good action on both macks and kokes. On his last trip he scored 27 kokanee and 20 macks for 10 clients. The kokes ran 12 to 15 inches and hit from 35 to 70 feet deep off Ski Run and the Tahoe Keys. The males were larger and deeper than the females. The macks were hitting live minnows bounced on the bottom on three-way rigs at 80 to 100 feet deep off Dollar Point and other north shore spots. MICKEY AND NIECE Katherine Myers (CSUS student), of Roseville caught this fish on an early morning trip. |
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