With the forecast for the weekend showing thunderstorms again, I decided to take Wednesday off and get a little fishing in on the Hobie. I started my morning at Lake Goodwin, took a few laps around the lake and never even got a sniff. That lake has been disappointing for rainbows the past 2 years since the state really took the stocking numbers down there. It's always been tough, but fun. Now it's just tough. About 10am I decided enough was enough and snuck up the road about a mile to Lake Ki. It was a good choice.

BY this time I did not have much time left to fish, so I launched and got busy. Elgin Fishing God's Tooth Spoons have always been good to me on this lake, and they were again today, just a little different set up than I normally use. My typical set up there is a God's tooth right out of the package. About a 4 foot leader from the swivel to a duo lock snap, then attach the spoon to the snap. This makes far fast pattern change out, and allows the spoon to flutter freely. I marked fish about 25-30 feet, and saw some on the surface, so I covered the top down to 30 feet. Moving gear up and down, changing out patterns if I went through fish with no bites. With my time being short I really ran through gear fast. Finally on 1 line I put a God's tooth 50/50 kokanee set up on 18 inches of leader behind a dodger, and started getting fish. I caught 3 and had another 1 or 2 get off. I released al of these. Only having about 20 minutes left, I changed the other line out to the same set up, just with a silver shiner pattern God's tooth, and tipped both lines with a pinched gulp crawler. I very quickly landed 5 which I kept to smoke. 1 was a double header with the back half of that being a very nice healthy 20 inch rainbow. That was fun n the kokanee rod!

Great day again on the Lake. I like this lake as it's pretty relaxed fishing, and I can always drum up some action with the God's Tooth.

Video shows the action for the day.

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