Wallowa Lake PR Kokanee (and a part deux).

It’s crazy that I first registered for this site in 2007….where have the years gone?

Anyways…I moved to Joseph from Bend and took up Kokanee fishing after watching a bunch of Spilt Milt’s videos to learn tricks of the trade. Wallowa Lake is 15 minutes from my place. Today I finally caught one of those Wallowa Lake monsters. 23.5” long…5-6 pounds conservatively (I didn’t have a scale). Pink micro-hoochie with shoepeg fished behind a dodger at 30 feet on the downrigger. I trolled back through the same area and hooked up with another monster that broke me off between my snelled hooks. Pictures aren’t great but the next biggest fish I caught was 15 inches for reference.

*Part Deux…..

Slower bite this morning…..but caught another nice one. 21 and change….3-4 pounds

Wow, that is an awesome fish!

  Daaaaammmnn!! Nice fish!

Super impressive!
Awesome job!

Man that is huge - nice job! I would love to fish Wallowa sometime even just for the natural beauty.

That's a monster!  Nice job!


-Mark-

Thanks fellas!

That’s a great fish.  Good to see there are still some big ones there.  Also good to see you back on the forum.

Holy Sheet! 

Thats a beast!

Congrats

It looks like now you brought a better fillet knife for this size fish:-)

Congrats on another great catch.

N

It looks like now you brought a better fillet knife for this size fish:-)

Congrats on another great catch.

Thanks….never leave home without it…

Nice fish, those are monsters. Glad to see someone else from this side of the State on here.

Congrats on that amazing fish! I’m a Spilt Milt follower too! I’m in Walla Walla and plan to go to Wallowa Lake this weekend. What does August Kokanee fishing look like there? Thanks.