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Spokane County, WA

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08/17/2018
Casting
Largemouth Bass
None
Chartreuse
Jig
Afternoon
71° - 75°
08/23/2018
3
5102

Went out Friday to 9 mile recreation park. It's on the Spokane river, but it's upstream from 9 mile dam. We just used selective gear rules because better safe than sorry. Lots of weeds in the body of water. Hooked some small small mouth. Landed a little largemouth. Brother hooked something big on the dropshot on the way up. Big trout, got off at the boat. Then my dad threw out a big Kastmaster hooked the trout it rose, looked about 20 inches. Shook free at the boat. Brother landed a 13 inch hatchery rainbow, with the Spokane river you can keep 2 hatchery rainbows. So we threw that one in the cooler. Kept fishing he hooked another fish, as this one came into the net I knew it was different. Took a quick pic and released it untouched. To me it looks like a wild chinook salmon, not sure at all how it could make it past the dam. Kept fishing with trout magnets and caught little smallmouth, and one pike minnow (that we killed). At the launch we talked to another boat, they caught 1 pike all day. We left at 2.


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downriggeral
8/23/2018 10:45:37 PM
Hard to tell from the pic but that looks like a kokanee to me. Where did you launch?
Tight lines Alan
stevertd2010
8/24/2018 7:52:24 AM
Yes, you are correct, that is a Kokanee. Look at the tail shape. Definitely not a rainbow.
502300
8/24/2018 4:36:15 PM
We launched at 9 mile recreation center.
502300
8/24/2018 4:38:55 PM
I did not have a picture of the rainbow. But thanks because now I know that that was a Kokanee
nvan
8/27/2018 10:39:36 AM
looks more like a Chinook to me. If the lower gums were black, it's a king. They often make their way to Roosevelt from Coeur d'Alene.
502300
8/28/2018 10:39:28 PM
The whole mouth was black, that's why I initially thought it was a chinook.
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