Anderson Ranch 7/9

[Lunddude]

I am a new member to BFT, infact I joined just before fishing the wiper tournament at Willard Bay (Utah) in May. That tourney was alot of fun and I got to meet some real nice people from the Utah board. I have really enjoyed reading the fishing reports on the Utah site and now the Idaho site. After reading about Packfans trip up here for the kokes at Anderson it got me fired up to go give it a try. And after reading all the good advice and tips from Kodiak & Aluma I had a pretty good head start. Me and Steph (wife) were on the water and fishing by 8:00 am. I think there was maybe two other boats out. My good freind Curt Cambell and his wife Patty also came up from Twin Falls with their boat and met us at the dock. After reading Packfans post about the red needle fish with the silver blade and the good luck he had I decided to start out with my side planer boards ( I run the Otter Boats from Big Jon). Running two poles off the front deck I set one pole up with the Needle Fsh and about 20 feet up the line I attached a 1/2 oz. snap weight then let out about another 80-100 feet of line then cliped it to the guide line and sent it down to the Otter Boat. On the second pole I used a Triple Teaser in lime green and did the same hookup only on this one I put a 3/4 oz. snap weight. My plan was to run 4 poles (both me and Steph have two pole permits) the two on the front off the planer boards and two out the back on the down riggers, yea right like that was going to happen!! The pole with the Needle Fish started producing within 5 minutes of hitting the water and every fish made it to the net and in the boat. I never had time to get the other two poles in the water. Steph drove the boat and did the netting and I kept busy riggin and reelin. We had real good steady action for the first couple of hours then it slowed a little. We fished mostly from Curlew down past the mouth of Lime Creek and then looped back towards Curlew. I wanted to fish up in Lime Creek but we never did just because to many recreation boaters so we stayed out of there. After a nice shore lunch in the shade and letting Lucy (our Lab) go for a swim we set out for some afternoon fishing. With the increased boat traffic by now the planer boards were not as effective so we put them away and broke out the downriggers. With this setup I used my two line counter reals and put a small set of Cowbells on each one. One of the small Cowbells had the brass and silver blades the other one had the hallo grapic strips on silver blades. I ran a Double Whammy on the silver & brass blades tiped with some of the "Magic Shoe Peg Corn" and a Kokanee Killer on the other. I found the best sucess was 75 feet behind the boat and 15 feet down on the down rigger. The DW with the brass & silver blades produced best here. We did lose more fish this method versus the Needle Fish in the A.M. Most fish were all nice 12- 15 inchers perfect for the smoker. We pulled off the lake about 5:00P.M. and headed back to Hailey. In all we brought home 22 nice kokanee and had a great day on the water. Thanks again guys for all the helpful info. Keep sending those reports and I'll do the same.
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