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April 12/13 2008

(12th) A couple of reports from the guys, Kirk and Myles were out on Kal today, Kirk trying to keep up with me and got the Zippo award while Myles at least managed a nice 16" kokanee.  Kirk did say that there were quite a few boats out there but no sign of any other fish brought in around the spots he was fishing.

(13th)  Jim did make it out on Kal for the day as well but all he managed was one small kok.  He's still dragging those huge lures of his around trying to beat my biggest laker!  Keep at it Jim!

  April 8 2008  (0800-1530)

With BIG thoughts of showing up the last crew that was out here all I wound up doing was getting wind burned!  I hit my usual spot first thing in the AM, quite a few fish marking but not a bite out of anything.  There was one other boat out there (blue Lund) and I did see them take one laker, looked to be in that 14-16 lb range.  They didn't have downriggers but judging by the bend in their rods they either had a bit of weight on or were using lead line, no idea as to hook.  Sad part is is that after the guy weighed it he put it into a bag in the boat!  Bad enough keeping the thing but not even a friendly "bonk" on the noodle to put the poor thing outta its misery!  I guess we all have the "privilege" of keeping our fish, I'm just not sure how good of eating those ones are.  Anyways, I pulled up the lines after a couple hours of nothing and headed down to Crystal Waters area, again, a few marking but no bites.  As noon rolled around I headed through the channel to Wood to try for koks.  Not as many marking as later on in the year, all I managed in 2 hours were a half dozen "seen" hits on a grn wedding band down at 48', that was it for this lake.

Back through the channel and out of the wind that came up on Wood, I no sooner got my lines back in and the wind shifted coming from the south and instead now came from the north!  About half way back to the launch I figured I may as well concede a defeat for the day and head home to regroup for my next outing, Mara Lake!

March 22 2008

These are the kinda reports I like when I fall behind getting them posted!  Greg was the first to hit Kal Lk and get in an official report.  Results for the day, zip!  You gotta like that, him leaving my lakers alone!  He was out with his son Brian, joined by buddy Dave and then brother Brad, but all they managed for their showing was one bite and a lost cannon ball complete with ball clip and line clip!  Good job!  They did mark quite a few fish on the bottom in some spots and then schools of something else up top, but nothing interested in biting.  Greg was "forced" off the lake by his son, a surprise anniversary party awaited him in the afternoon so they headed in earlier than usual.  I was even nice enough to show up at the party, free beer and food, nothing wrong with that!  I'll take you out on MY lake sometime and show you how to catch them, again!