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Ice fishing for Kokanee
By Danny Coyne, BC Fishn
Ice fishing for Kokanee is a really fun and effective way to catch these silver chrome bullets. However, as many Kokanee ice anglers have come to learn, when ice fishing Kokanee we can experience days with fast and furious action to a very slow day of fishing. Let’s face it, these moody fish can be extra fickle in their selection of your presentation, which makes them a challenge to catch. This is what keeps anglers intrigued to keep coming back to pursue Kokanee through the ice time and time again.
On one of our recent Kokanee ice fishing trips a cold front moved in and the weather turned from a balmy 2 degrees Celsius to -21 overnight. We went from a day filled with easy limits to the next day the fish didn’t want anything to do with us. We would watch a school of fish move in on the sonar, check out our presentation and then disappear! For the first couple of hours we took this as a challenge and kept changing out our presentations. After about 4 hours of fishing and no fish on the ice, it started to feel like we were going to go home empty handed.
We continued to make minor adjustments to our presentations and BAM! Fish on! Once the first fish hit the ice the feeling of relief set in. A few minutes later, we started to land fish consistently. We found the winning formula! There were 7 other tents around us and we were the only ones catching fish; so what did we do that made the difference? Here are a few tips and techniques that we discovered that helped us catch our limit of Kokanee during a tough bite!
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