Fishing, Trail rides and more fishing.

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The past couple of weeks we have been on the water a couple times and made our first trail ride into the mountains.

We ventured back onto Jordanelle with Troy's boat this time. His is a Thunder jet as well, it's 24 feet long. He has it set up very well for trolling Kokanee Salmon. We started the day earlier at 7am and were fishing by 7:30. We ran the same lines as the week before and had basically the same results. We got a few Kokanee and a lot of rainbow trout. The day was long and slow for the bite. We did manage over 20 fish over 10 hours of fishing. With the weather warming, it should pick up soon.

Sally and I went for our first trail ride of the season. We hit a favorite canyon of mine and checked out the creek in it. It was destroyed in the run-off from the fires a couple years ago and it is still recovering. I don't know that it will ever have the brown trout like it did. We took a new trail after looking over the creek. This time we took FR 613 and we took it as far as we could until the snowdrifts stopped us. This trail is an easy trail with water crossings and some off-camber sections. It took us thru all the area has to offer, sagebrush, oak brush, aspen, and finally into the pine forest. Found a new little creek along the way couldn't see any fish in it though. We reached the deep snowdrifts and turned around. It was a nice start to the trail season.

Last week we loaded up in Danny's boat the Koke1. This was the season kickoff for Strawberry Kokanee fishing. Danny and Troy were beyond excited to get the season going. We launched and fished on the Soldier Creek side of the lake. We found that there were quite a few boats on the water when we got there at 9am. Danny immediately went into his tried and true lanes and we quickly hooked up with fish. Rainbow trout but we were catching fish. We had multiple hits and misses and hookups and long distant releases. It got a little frustrating, but we persevered and kept catching fish. We finally found a couple Kokanee Salmon, and the attitudes changed quickly. Danny hooked into a nice 2 pounder and boated it after a long fight. We fished into the late afternoon and caught over 20 fish again. The bite was slow and light, but as the weather warms up and the water temperature increases the fish will start hitting harder and more frequently.