December 30, 1998

Green Peter boat ramp UPDATE

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This report submitted by Robert Nolan

December 4, 1998

Green Peter boat ramp closure....

     I called the Linn county parks department for information about the boat ramps. Withcomb is closed during the winter because the ramp does not reach low pool levels. Thistle creek is close for improvements until about the first of January. The Army Corps of engineers is extending the ramp to low pool levels. They are projected to finish the first of January, but because of the rain, thus keeping the pool high, they may not get done in time. I plan to call them in a month to check on the progress. The other alternative is to launch from near the dam. I have done this with my little ricegrinder PU. It is actually easier to do in the winter because you can get a run at the hill with the water level low.

October 14, 1998

More Green Peter Information of Interest

The following is some more information from Guy I think may be of interest to those who fish GP....Robert

Well, I went with my biologist friend today to help pull the nets at Green Peter and do the fish sampling. To say the least they were amazed at the numbers of fish and the size of fish that were in the nets. The longest fish was 15 inches, but what was really impressive was the girth of the some of these fish. Some of them almost looked like big crappie they were so broad from top to belly.

The nets were put in four different locations and the results were the same from all four areas. We got 147 kokes, 12 trout, 10 squaw fish up to 3 pounds and 12 suckers. Some of the kokes had already spawned and were in bad shape. Some of the males hardly had any tails left from working the nests. Most of the females were very ripe, but a few still had firm eggs. All the fish were weighed, measured and recorded. My friend said that they had never seen the size that was represented in the sampling, nor the numbers. He said that they got more fish today that all of the fish they have gotten in all of the years they have been taking samples. The last two years they got skunked one year and only nine the other. He said that he does not see any reason to consider any kind of planting of additional smolts. These numbers of fish were gotten with the nets only being in the lake about 16 hours.

It was a interesting day. they also had a young grad who had just finished his masters degree in microbiology and was working as a fish pathologist on an intern basis with a company out of B.C. He took samples of sperm and ovarian fluid. He also took some of the fish to study for potential viruses and diseases. If this sample is any indication of the health of the population, then we should be in good shape barring any natural disaster, for the near future.

This information submitted by  Guy

September 9, 1998

Green Peter Information of Interest

The following is some information from Guy I think may be of interest to those who fish GP....Robert

I forgot to share with you that on my trip to the lake on I believe it was the 29th of August, The friend I took with me was the district biologist. He is a friend and had wanted to go fishing with me at Green Peter after I had told him of the success we have been experiencing this summer. He had not heard of many people catching kokanee at the lake. He could not believe the size of the fish we were landing. He said that he had never seen fish this size come out of the lake. They do their nettings in the fall. He said that they have about 5 different sites where they net to get a sample of the population and the size. He said that they usually do this in the fall. He had said that he had actually ordered 100,000 smolts a year to be planted in the lake over the next three years because of the reports he was or was not getting. He was to say the least very impressed with the day we had on the lake. He is still planning do the nettings this fall as planned, but it sounded like he was still leaning towards the planting of smolt. I'll keep you posted when I hear some more from him.

This information submitted by  Guy

September 8, 1998

Thought I would head out to Green Peter for one last trip this year. This is the first year I have really gone after the Kokanee, and my wife can't get enough of the things (that is great, if you know what I mean). Anyway, we did not get a start until about 8:30, and the wind was already blowing pretty hard, so we promptly headed for the dam. This was the wrong thing to do. We fished for about an hour and half using all different kind of lures, and never even got a hit. After that we moved back down to the island. As soon as we got there, I had hits, but could not keep them on. I had switched to a trout colored needle fish. After losing about 5 fish, I put a #6 red Gamokatsu hook on the needle fish and kept the next fish. The bite kind of slowed down but was consistent near the east end of the island. My wife could not buy a bite with anything she put on. We fished anywhere from 50' to 65' deep. We quite fishing around 2:00 with only six in the boat to show for the effort (about 60% of the hits never hooked up!).

This report submitted by  A Friend of Guy

September 7, 1998

I fished Green Peter with my kids on the mornings of Sept. 5, 6, and 7. I tried out the spinners that you had sent me the picture of, Colorado Size 2 silver plated spinner and orange beads, with a size 4 Gamakatsu hook. I got spinner parts from The Fisherman's Shack in Monmouth. The spinner worked great and I have never had better success keeping fish on than with that size 4 hook. We fished Beer Cans on the downrigger ball and hooked the release about a foot up the downrigger cable. We fished the spinner 24" behind a small silver Sep's dodger. We fished several hours each morning and ended the 3 days with 40 fish. Like Guy's report, we too found our best success south of the island. We fished up near the dam with little success. Our best catches came at 55 to 65 feet down. We found that trolling fairly quickly 1.2 to 1.4 mph seemed to help. The fish were real nice sized. The bucks are getting the spawning look, with the hooked jaw and dark color, but the flavor is still OK. All in all a great trip and the kids all had a ball bringing in the fish.

This report submitted by  Dan

September 5, 1998

I took a day off from work and took my 12 year old son to the lake. We put in at day light and started fishing around the island. We got our fish hookup after about 5 mins. of trolling. We took our usual route of down the points across from the island. We did not find many fish close to the shore so we moved out into about 200 feet of water and had consistant bites all morning. The bite was consistant but not what I would call fast. we trolled between the island and the rocky point due south of the island. If we strayed very far from these two points, we did not experience very good fishing. We fished at this location until the wind picked up and then moved down to the dam. We wind drifted, but did not get may bites. We caught a few but not like earlier in the day. We stopped for lunch about 1130. My son swam for a while and then we took a 2 hour nap. At 2:00 we went back to the island and found fish at the east end of the island. We made several passes and hooked fish on every pass. One boat stopped us and asked us if we had caught any fish. They had been on the lake for over 2 hours and had not even had a bite. I showed them where we were hooking fish and the depth we were fishing. We were at at depth of 70 feet. On their first pass they landed one fish and when we were leaving, we saw them with another hookup. We ended the day with 24 kokes. The males are really starting to change with large heads, hooked jaws, and gray and red coloring. The meat is still very firm and great color. I doubt they will stay that way much longer. Most of the females were still very bright, but the eggs are really starting to mature. All in all it was a great day to be on the lake.

This report submitted by  Guy

August 29, 1998

Well it was certainly worth getting back to Green Peter. Because of work, I have not been up to the lake for a little over 3 weeks. Saturday, I and a friend went to the lake. We put in just before daylight and went out to the Island. Within in 5 mins. we had our first Koke. The action stayed consistant up until about 1100. We stopped for lunch and tried it again for about an hour and one half. The wind was strong and we had about 12 hook ups but we only landed 2 more fish. We left the lake with 33 kokes. All were very thick and the largest an honest 13 inches. They are still very good eating. I hope to get back one more time before they are past good eating.

This report submitted by  Guy

August 29, 1998

A friend and I went up to Green Peter yesterday (Aug. 29). It was a nice hot sunny day and the skiers were plentiful so my expectations for having a good day of fishing were not too high. At first we were only marking an occasional fish and getting no bites. We had headed straight up to the Quartzville arm since my friend prefers to row when trolling. We finally found a couple of schools off the rocky points before the first big bend just before noon. The first five passes through the larger school I hooked four fish - total of five in all before breaking to eat. Lost one at the boat (trying to lift for the net) and one as he was being netted. They were the biggest fish I have caught at GP and the fattest I had seen them. Fourteen inch footballs that were full of fight. One of them jumped 5 or 6 times before I could get him headed toward the boat. After lunch the bite was off.

I fished at 40-50 pulls (about 1 1/2 ft per pull) with 2 oz of lead on the keel (there is no bouancy in the Spiderwire I use), and the flasher rig that seemed to be the ticket was a nickel Ford Fender with prism tape. The terminal tackle was similar to a wedding ring, but made up of different sizes of red and chartreuse beads and a oval shaped florescent lt. green bead where the wedding ring would be. Attached to this was a spoon - glow in the dark plastic until a log claimed it, then a nickel one w/ about size 4 hook with a small yellow Power Bait Trout Nibble on it.

Tight lines

This report submitted by Burton

August 26, 1998

Who says lighting can't strike the same place twice.  I started at the same time and for a while the fishing was pretty slow.  I didn't mark much on the finder so I dropped it down to 66 feet.  Trolling at that depth I managed about 8 by 10:30.  The fish were thick bodied and full of fight.  I met my wife at the dam at 10:30 and started the troll across the tubes.  It was about then that the West wind started picking up.  Right after I told my wife how slow it was so far today the fun started.  Trolling one at 59 feet and the other at 53 feet for the next three hours we had 4 doubles and fish on almost constantly.  We seemed to do better from the tubes down to the first point and from the Island up about a half mile.  I stayed on after my wife left and tried some different offerings.  None worked as well as my usual.  Here's a pic of my favorite SEP'S dodger.  I'll leave it on here for a week.  I saw others catching fish and talked to a couple pulling out that didn't do so well.  It looks like everything has to be just right for a good bite.

This report submitted by Robert Nolan

August 22, 1998

I fished Green Peter with my father-in-law today, Saturday 8-22-98. We got an early start thanks to some folks who pulled up next to us about 4:30AM having a beer bash. Anyway, we fished most of the day and pulled out around 4:00 with 28 fish. We had bites and hookups pretty much all day. Again we used the beer can flashers on the downrigger ball and a Seps dodger and Robbie's green spinner back behind a Sep's release about 18" above the downrigger ball. I tried an orange wedding ring with a Size 4 Gamakatsu hook for awhile but didn't do any good on that. We fished at about 55 feet down. At one point I sped the boat up from 1.2 mph to 1.4 mph and that really did seem to help. This takes quite a lot of power, so we gave our Minnkota and 2 batteries a real workout. We fished mainly up by the dam, as did several other boats. The fish are great, even though there is starting to be some dark color in some of them. They still taste great though. Great year at Green Peter, and judging from the size of some of the 3 year fish I think we could see some 15 inchers next year.

This report submitted by  Dan

August 19, 1998

Which is more important,  The lure or the flasher?  Today it was definitely the flasher.  I started around the Island using the usual Ford Fender and pink spinner.  I was marking fish but had no takers.  I remembered the recent reports to this page mentioning better success with the Beer Can flasher, so I thought perhaps they are wanting more flash.  I put a Beer Can on the downrigger ball and attached a SEPS 00 dodger(green,orange,pink w/black dots) to my main line and hung a orange spinner 2 feet behind it.  It was dynamite.  The breeze was from the East to start with so I trolled to the tubes catching so many fish I had no real chance to sit down.  I mean I could have sat down but I would have had to get up a few minutes later anyway.  Using the Beer Can and dodger was like night and day, the best fishing of the year for me and the best since Odell lake 1996.  When I got up to the tubes the wind shifted to the West and I started my troll back down the lake.  There is a slow area half way between the tubes and the Island.  Going up I trolled at 51 feet, coming back toward the island, later when things slowed a bit, I dropped it down to 65 feet and started catching fish all over again.  I left with an easy limit.  I asked a guy on the way up how he was doing.  He just smiled and said, "God it don't get any better than this".  That pretty much summarizes the day for me.

This report submitted by Robert Nolan

August 18, 1998

Green Peter Tues. 18th. I went back to Green Peter with my friend, who I think is now hooked on Kokanee fishing. We started out by the island fishing at 50 ft and I caught three right away using a rainbow Kokanee King even though we were marking very few fish. We then moved up to the #3 area and we caught a few more. I only missed one bite this time out. This time I tightened my quick release and loaded up my rod to take up more slack when the line released. My friend wanted to try jigging so we tied to the boom about ¼ of the way from the South side. The mostly white buzz bombs were again effective. There were gobs of fish, but the bite was super light and the fish picky about presentation. The only action that seemed to work was to lift the rod 2-3 feet then lower the rod in a deliberate fashion not letting the line get any thing more that a small bow in it. A fast jig with a fast drop was not working at all. The bite was so light that several times I did not feel the bite, but saw my rod tip load up just a little and when I set the hook a fish was there. We missed lots of bites and lost, again, many fish. We finished at 2pm with 19 fish. One buck we caught was starting to change color, barely, but still not chrome any more. All the others were bright. Time is running out for the Kokanee fishing season.

August 18, 1998

I took my son and father-in-law to Green Peter for Saturday Aug. 17 and Sunday morning Aug. 18. Saturday was overcast and a moderate breeze and the fishing was hot. We fished downriggers with beer can flashers tied to the downrigger balls and then about 18" up the downrigger cable we hooked in Sep's downrigger releases. We fished back behind the flashers with a small silver dodger and about 30 inches behind that we fished Robbie's spinners with white corn. We did the best on a bright green colored spinner. We had lots of bites and really did pretty well with the double hooks that Robbie ties on his spinners. It was a lot of fun pulling in the fish without having to fight the big troll rigs. The fish were fat and most were between 12 and 13 inches. We started at the dam early Saturday morning and let the wind blow us most of the way down to Tally Creek (about 5 miles). We had strikes throughout the whole troll. We caught 18 on Saturday morning and another 11 in our mid-afternoon to supper time trolling.

Sunday morning the lake was pretty flat and the fishing was fairly slow. We caught 6, including one caught at the dam on a pink and white Nordic jig.

This trip I tried using Pro-Cure's "Kokanee" scent, made up of corn scent, anise, and herring oil. Can't say that I could tell a difference on this trip, but I'm anxious to try this further as those ingredients really sound great.

Say, does anyone know if it is OK to tie off on those new black floats at the dam?

This report submitted by  Dan

August 17, 1998

I and gal friend started out at daylight at the dam. In an hour and half we only caught one and had a couple bites (only one other fisherman there doing about the same). Water skiers using the dam area, so went down to mouth of Thistle Creek bay and trolled deep (150') and managed to catch 4 more for lunch. Went to island and barbecued 3 for lunch then went out off the west end of island and caught 8 more...pretty steady bites. The beer cans and wedding ring outfished flashlights and wedding ring at least two to one. Quite a few fish marked at 40-60 fish but we couldn't get bites at that depth. Very few marked at 150-200' but that's where we got bites...go figure. Bucks starting to turn dark but still tasty. Calm weather all day was different...but very nice.

This report submitted by Rod Graves

August 13, 1998

Fished Green Peter yesterday (8/13) with a friend. It was his first trip for Kokanee. We took his boat with an auto-pilot electric trolling motor (man am I spoiled now). We started by the Withcomb boat launch, but it was slow so we headed up to the dam. Tolled most of the day at 50 feet. I tried the bear can flashers that Guy useds and this time out I had bites all day long. We boated 13 fish all between 12 and 13 inches. They sure are getting fat. We lost a bunch at the boat and missed countless bites. I don't know why I missed so many bites. My quick release would release and the rod would go slack and the fish would be gone. At one point I was getting strikes about every five minutes, but only hooking one in 5. Some of the bucks are getting the beginning of a hook jaw, but the fish were all bright.

August 3, 1998

Went back to Green Peter on Saturday.  Started out trolling down towards Fishermans Bridge, with only one fish to show for the effort, so we moved out to the island and picked up a couple of more, but still overall pretty slow.  About 10 am the wind started picking up, so we moved up to the dam before it got to rough.  The action there was a lot better.  Soon as we put out we were picking up fish.  The fish by the dam were quite a bit more energetic.  I had my line just rip off my reel several times, and even had a couple of hits that were so hard they broke my leader even though I had a loose drag.  I think next time I am going to move up from the 4lb Trilene Ulta Thin I was using to something a little bit heavier.   Later on the bite slowed down.  It was kind of funny, they would still hit hard, but somehow they would not get hooked up.  The lure of the day was a red wedding ring tipped with corn and egg.  It also appeared that the use of a small dodger made a big difference.   The fish were pretty spread out between 40 to 60 feet.  We spent most of the day at 45' to 50'.

This report submitted by Brad Dixon

August 3, 1998

The fish are back in front of the dam in pretty good numbers. We had schools under us most of the afternoon although they were light biters. The 19 that we jigged were stuffed full of plankton, maybe explaining the light bite. A couple of the bucks pushed 14" and all were real thick. Gonna try it again monday. Joe Studier

This report submitted by  Joe

August 1, 1998

We fished Green Peter on Friday evening 7-31-98 and most of Saturday 8-1-98. Friday evening was pretty slow, as is usual up there but Saturday morning was pretty great.   We were using Beer Cans trailed by either a orange wedding ring or a pink Robbie's double hook spinner with corn or corn/Pautschke egg.  Both spinners did equally well, and the Robbie's double hook kept the fish on better, no question.   We did find that spider wire and Scottie's downrigger releases are a terrible combination, as we managed to chop off several troll rigs. 

We ended up with 20 NICE kokanee, 12 - 13 inch size range for the most part. We caught one that was only slightly smaller which had immature eggs (so had another year to grow) which makes me think that the fish will be very large up there next summer.

The early morning was definitely the time to be out.  We caught fish one right after the other and then went in about 8:30 for breakfast.  We had a flat tire and then found  both our pickup and boat tire spares were flat.  By the time we got that whole mess sorted out we had lost the rest of the good morning bite.

Great fishing and we'll definitely be back!

This report submitted by  Dan

July 26, 1998

Spent the day at Green Peter with the wife and kids. We were on the lake at day light and enjoyed the morning as it broke. This was mainly a day to take life easy, eat a casual lunch and let the boys swim, but we still had to fish. My time was spent mainly helping the boys fish and even with that we managed to boat 40 Kokes. My 12 year old got 19 and my 8 year old got 11( he actually should of gotten 13, but his brother mysteriously knocked one off his line at the boat and had another one just jump out of the net inside the boat  and back into the lake. It took a while to sort that one out). You can do the math to figure out how many Dad caught.The day has been a repeat of the last three times I have been to the lake. We had good action the first two hours, hit a lull, and then had good action after the wind came up. We basically repeated the last two posting as far as where we fished. We finished up the day at 4:00pm. I will probably not get back to the lake until later in August, too much going on at work and a wedding in California. For those of you how get to enjoy,  have fun.

This report submitted by  Guy

July 24, 1998

I took a friend up to Green Peter.  We fish mostly fisherman's bridge and at the mouth.  I marked huge schools of fish at the mouth at 52 feet, but could not buy a bite.  I tried silver plated flashers with no luck.  We caught three nice fish and lost a few.  It sounds like from Guy, the flasher are very important.   This report submitted by  Brian Russell

July 23, 1998

I went to Green Peter today with a friend and enjoyed another beautiful day. We were on the lake just before day light and headed out to the points south of the island. Sunrises on Green Peter are great, along with the solitude when no one else is on the lake at 5:30   in the morning. We fished all the way up to reference # 9. We picked up fish all the way up. We then went up to the dam and wind drifted all the way back to # 9 again. We were off the lake by 12:30. The morning was surprisingly cool with cloud cover for the first couple of hours. It was really very pleasant in comparison to all of the hot hot weather we have had this past week. We boated 41 kokes. We used  my old standby beer can spinners and wedding ring with corn. Again 60 feet was the depth that we caught all of the kokes. I experimented a little with flashlite spinners and also a small dodger, but had no luck at all with these setups. We cleaned our fish at the fish cleaning station at Foster. We talked with a couple of fishermen who had been at Green Peter all morning and they had one small 8 inch Koke. They wanted to know how in the world did we catch all the kokes? I showed them my set up and  how I fish it. As usual,  we got the rolled eye balls when I showed them how much weight I use and the fact that I do not use down riggers, but they could not deny the number of Kokes we were cleaning. The moral of the story for me is the old "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I'll be back to Green Peter on Saturday with my wife and younger boys. I'm not sure just how intense the fishing will be, but we plan to enjoy the day and relax a little. If any of you are there and you see a blue Willie Predator with two young boys trying to get their hooks out of their dad   or trying to untangle fishing line and beer can  spinner, say hello.

This report submitted by  Guy

July 22, 1998

Too much of a good thing is easy to take.  Went to Green Peter with a friend from work.  We started just West of reference #5 and did quite well.  I was surprised how few skiers and jetboaters there were.  Only saw one of each the whole time.  It was really hot.  The water temperature on the surface was 74 degrees up to 78 degrees.  We finished the day by fishing by Fisherman's bridge.   We caught fish consistantly in both places and left with 39 Kokanee up to almost 14 inches in length.  It really was a nice day.

This report submitted by Robert Nolan

July 19, 1998

We were on the lake at first light today. We had 8 fish in the boat in the first hour. and then we hit a lull. We were fishing 5 and 7.  We  headed up to the dam when the wind came up and wind drifted until it got too windy. Once the wind came up the bite for us picked up and we had consistant bites through out  most of the day. We headed back to number 7 to get out of the strong wind and finished fishing at 4:00pm.  We managed to boat 42 Kokes and lost our fair share too. We were fishing at a depth of 60 feet.

This report submitted by  Guy

July 18, 1998

Went to Green Peter today (7/18/98). Started fishing by 6:30. Even at this time, the parking lot was already full.  We started fishing down towards fishermans bridge.   We did not mark a lot of fish, but the fish we did mark were biting (see it on the fish finder, then a pole would have a fish on). We moved out into the lake for a little bit, with about the same hit rate. The wind came up, so we moved back to the bridge area. This second time around, we mark more and the action was better.  My main line got snarled up with the flashers on the downrigger 4 times, two of which when I brought everything up, I had a fish on! We had to leave early (11:00 am) with the fishing action still really good. We ended up boating only 9 fish, although the way the action was we could have done a lot better if we stayed later. We caught all the fish about 50' down.

This report submitted by Brad Dixon

July 13, 1998

Went to Green Peter with Rod Graves today.  We started by trolling around Fisherman's Bridge.  It didn't take long before we hooked a few fish.   Generally speaking, the fishing was pretty slow though and I didn't mark many fish.   So we went to the tubes and trolled back and forth there for a better part of the day.  We lost aboout 10 fish in a row, or more, before we started landing fish.   They started biting good around 11:00.  We left the water at 1:30 with 14 fish.  They were still biting when we left.  We did better trolling by the points across from the island.

This report submitted by Robert Nolan

July 8, 1998

Take just about any Kokanee lure and/or bait, troll just about any point at 45 to 65 feet deep, and enjoy some really great fishing for 11 to 13 inch Kokanee.   That pretty much sums up my luck at Green Peter today.  I started about half way between reference #5 and #3 using pearl white beads for my spinner.  I caught some fish and when it slowed I switched to bright orange beads.  The difference was dramatic.  I doubled my hookups.  With 19 fish I decided to check out Fisherman's Bridge, reference #6.  It didn't take long to catch the rest of my limit here.  There were a dozen people fishing off the bridge.  They must have been catching fish because they showed up on the fishfinder.  It was here that I caught my biggest Kokes for the day.  Here it is the beginning of July and the Kokes are 13 inches and growing!  August should be something else.  I'll probably take a little break from Kokanee fishing for a while.  The freezer is full.  Time to start the canner.

This report submitted by Robert Nolan

July 4, 1998

I usually do not fight the crowds on holidays, but I could not resist sense fishing has been so good at Green Peter. Nathan and I were on the lake just before daylight. It took us a little while to find fish. We got into a lot of fish at number 6. I was able to limit out and Nathan caught 11.  We picked up three to five fish on every pass we made. We were off the lake by noon. We used the old stand by Beer Can spinner and red Wedding Rings with white corn. We fished at a depth of 50 feet all day.

This report submitted by  Guy

  July 3, 1998

Went to Green Peter Res. on friday 7/3/98 and started fishing just east of area 2.   No sooner than the down rigger got to 75' the line released.  I thought I didn't have the line in the release right but it was a fish! I stayed in the area for the rest of the day and came away with 22 Kokanee 11 to 12 1/2 inches. The lake was a little choppy but not unbearable. The wind did come up later in the afternoon.   I was fishing with a red wedding ring with white corn and a 4/0 dodger in front of it down 75'.

This report submitted by  Gary K.

July 2, 1998

Well we were at it again today.  We found the honey hole and then promptly kept right on going.  Made for a slow morning.  We tried the Quartzville arm to get out of the wind and caught a few up there.  With a couple of hours before we had to go, we went back to where we ran into the fish and ended up with 36 fish for three of us.  All the fish seemed to be 12 1/2 to 13 inches.    Spoked to another group that had come back in for a pit stop and they thought they had about 40 fish with 4 people in the boat.  As usual we lost a number of fish next to the boat.

This report submitted by Mike Morse

June 29, 1998

I went to Green Peter on Saturday the 27th and Monday the 29th. I took a friend who had never fished for Kokes, and he took a friend that also had never fished for Kokes. We managed to boat 51 for the day. The morning started off sort of slow and we wound up at the dam where we started catching fish at about 70 feet deep. After the wind came up we moved up to the quartzsvile arm and wind drifted. The bite really picked up for us and we spent the afternoon with a good results. Monday I took my sons up to the lake and we managed to boat 41 Kokes. The bit was slow for us most of the day, but active enough to keep us interested. My 12 year old son out fished me for the day. He was rubbing it in most of the day. The wind really blew hard during the afternoon and made it hard to wind drift so we fished protected areas. Two great days and great fishing. We used beer can spinners and wedding rings with red beads and gold spinners. The wedding rings were tipped with corn or corn and red eggs.

This report submitted by  Guy

June 28, 1998

Jill and fished Sunday and had tuff time getting bites for the first time this year.   First we tried area 4 but lots of debris made me move up to the dam.  I went all day with out a bite using every lure in my box.  Jill had baby cow bell flashers and I had the flash lite flasher, I wonder if that was it.  We jigged for a while and caught two.  Not many fish moving around the boom.

This report submitted by  Brian Russell

June 28, 1998

I fished Green Peter for the first time today, wasn't shure where to go, so I headed off to the dam. I fished there by the tubes and found fish at 80'. I was impressed with the size and girth of the fish. I tried jigging, didn't have any luck so I keep trolling with wedding ring and dodger. I got five nice Kokanee, enough for a good meal. I would have got more but water skiers and wind made it a little uncomfortable. Next time I'll try some different locations.

This report submitted by  Gary K.

June 24, 1998

Rain Rain and more Rain. Wow did it pour at the big green. I took my two sons to chase the Kokes. We managed to get 36 kokanee. My sons were able to get a total of 12 and I picked up 24. We used beer cans and red Wedding Rings with corn soaked in anise. We Started trolling between #5 and #7 on the south shore. We made about 5 runs through this path and then stopped for lunch and to dry out. We were catching fish at a depth of 30 feet. After lunch we could not by a strike in this run so we moved out into the middle of the lake and wind drifted from #7 to #9. We went to a depth of 50 feet  and consistanly hooked fish. Most of the fish were 10 to 12 inches and very fat. We got a mixure of males and females with maybe a little more females in the catch. I caught a lot of fish with my Beer Can rig falling. When we were wind drifting, I would speed the trolling motor up to get my line out so it would not tangle. When I had the 50 pulls out I would cut the trolling motor and the Kokes would hit the Wedding Ring as it was falling. I had one stretch of about 6 fish in about ten minutes where they all hit the rig on the fall.  All in all a great day.

This report submitted by  Guy

June 24, 1998

I know I must be crazy fishing in rain like it did today.  From 7:30 to 11:30 it poured.  But the wind wasn't too bad and the fish co-operated.......for the first few drops at spot #4.  Then the bite soured so I headed for the dam.   I got there just in time to see the "dam" people repairing the tubes.   They had come apart in the middle.  It looks like they may have taken a few of them out to pull out some slack.  The rain was so uncomfortable I started trolling by the tubes and headed up the lake on the South side.  I wasn't about to motor up the lake into the rain unless I had to.  So I just kept going till I hit the point by Tally Creek and then I motored back up.  I stayed till my trolling battery was red and left with 20 fish.  They were still biting when I left.  I had an idea for what I hoped was a new killer for Kokes but it didn't pan out.  My thought was to spice the corn up with liquid Power Bait.  I caught a few with it but my bites increased when I went back to Potski Egg and Anise oiled corn.  Tried a Super Duper for a while with no luck.   For me they seem to be keying on the orange beaded, silver bladed, imitation of a Wedding Ring.  Most the fish I caught were midway down the lake by the points and 55 to 60 feet down.  Oh, just thought I'd mention, when I cleaned the fish all but two were females.  Anybody else notice the same sort of thing?  I'm wondering if the males aren't holding off for late August for some great jigging : )

This report submitted by Robert Nolan

June 21, 1998

On Monday four of us enjoyed a windy day on the lake.  We tried the island, both arms and up by the dam.   We didn't mark large schools of fish but we seem to get hook-ups regardless of where we fished.  The lure of the day was a home made contraption that I heard about a fellow using on Billy Chinook. I did my own variation and it easily beat out the wedding rings and Kokanee Kandy.  We ended up with 51 kokes.  All of the fish came from a depth of 32' to approx 45' and were 11" to 12" in length.  When we first arrived I though my depth finder had gone "South".  We were in the middle of the lake and had a depth of 26 to 30 feet showing on the scope.  We experienced that at several different locations before I decided that it must be plankton or some sort of thermocline.  For the first time we saw the sheriff out in his boat.  He made like he was going to visit us a couple of times, but for whatever reason he lost interest and headed out for places unknown.  Anyway it was good to see him on the lake.

This report submitted by Mike Morse

June 20, 1998

I fished Green Peter with my kids on Saturday 6-20-98.  We didn't do anything early in the morning so went up a long way in the Middle Santiam arm and got into the planter trout.  We started picking them up, went back to camp for the girls, and had trout limits by lunch time. We boated to the dam and fished for kokanee and started getting hookups before we packed it in mid-afternoon.  The wind was blowing us along pretty good so it was difficult to keep the fish on.  We managed to catch three nice kokanee using wedding rings at about 35 feet down with the downrigger.  Wish we could have stayed longer but had a baseball game to get back to.  Glad to see the fishing this good at Green Peter this year.  We'll be back!

This report submitted by  Dan Meyers

June 15, 1998

Went to Green Peter on the 15th of June. The morning started off by raining, but by noon it cleared up and was a beautiful day. It did become very windy during the afternoon. We managed to boat 55 kokanee for the day. We probably lost that many more. Sizes ranged from 10 to 13 inches. We trolled in the morning and wind drifted all afternoon. We had more take downs and fish in the boat by wind drifting than by trolling. We used beer cans and wedding rings tipped with white corn. We did try some of the flashlite trollers but by in large caught most of the kokes on the beer cans. We fished in 40 feet of water all day long.

This report submitted by  Guy

I sent a reply to Guy asking weather he was fishing AT a depth of 40 feet OR  fishing in water that was 40 feet deep.  The following was his excellent answer:

June 14, 1998

I fished Green Peter Friday the 12th and Sunday the 14th.  Friday I took my seven year old daughter Jill.  We first headed up the Qartzville arm but did not mark many fish.  We picked up several trolling, but caught more trout than Kokanee.  Had a fish break my line and lost the big hook that was working so well for me.  I switched to a white superduper with a single hook and proceeded to lose a few more fish at the boat.  It seems the law of averages was coming into affect for my last trip where I hardly lost a fish.  We headed up to the dam and tried jigging.  I caught one on a red buzz bomb.  A fellow and his son a few yards over were reeling them in right and left.  He was using a light colored 2-inch not a three-inch buzz bomb like I was.   I must have watched him catch 20 to my one.  That got old so we trolled in front of the boom.  I had several more fish on and lost every one.  Jill picked up a few.  We trolled back to the boat launch in various places and I proceeded to loose more fish.  I bet I lost 10 in a row before finally catching one and that is not counting all the missed takedowns.  My friend in another boat did not do much better, but he found a green wedding ring to worked best for him.  I guess we had 10 fish between Jill and I.

Sunday, I went back by myself and trolled around the dam area waiting for a few schools to show so I could have another crack at jigging.  None appeared.  So I spent most of the time trolling a wedding ring.  Again, I lost more that I caught.  I had to work for the one I did mark.  The fishing picked up later in the day.   Most of the schools I marked were down at 180 to 250 feet deep.  I tied to the boom and picked up 10 fish jigging in 1.5 hours.  Funny thing is I marked very few fish.  Most of the time I was getting bites jigging, there was no fish marking at the depth I was fishing?  Left at 12:30 with 13 fat fish.

This report submitted by  Brian Russell

June 10, 1998

It is funny to see that you were up the same day that I was on Green Peter, although you had MUCH better success.  My friend and I started out looking up the arm just before Quartzville; the fish finder showed fish, but our poles did not (ghosts?).  We then headed to the east side of the island.  The water was so rough for our small boat (12'), that we could not tell when we were getting a byte.   When I pulled my gear in, it looked like at least one stole the bait off the hook.   After that we headed up the Quartzville creek arm.  We did not mark a lot of fish, but we did start getting a few hits with a red wedding ring.  My first fish broke my line, the second ripped out, and the third was in the boat.  After that they were not really hitting the red wedding ring.  My friend put on a green R&K spinner with a double hook (ref. Salmon, Trout, Steelheader magazine).  He was getting hits like crazy, but they would be off as soon as his line came out of the clip release.  I am not so sure how good those double hooks are.  Too  make a bad day worse, when we pulled in to the dock, an older couple were pulling out also.   After talking to them, we found out they had 38 in the boat between two people!

This report submitted by Brad Dixon

June 10, 1998

I must be getting old.  I went fishing while it was raining.   The rain wasn't all that bad because I fished the Quartsville arm in the morning while it was windy and raining the most.  The fish weren't there like the last time.   Nevertheless, with some patience, I managed 13 by around 10:30 AM.  It started clearing up so I went into to main lake and searched for fish.  I tried most of the old spots and caught a odd fish here there and everywhere.  Trolling across the "tubes" seemed as good as anywhere.  I finished out with 20 fish and had a really enjoyable day.  I tried several different lures and colors.  The old Wedding Ring color spinner seemed the way to go.   It's sure nice to see Green Peter back to normal again.
This report submitted by Robert Nolan

June 6, 1998

I took my kids fishing at Green Peter on 6-6-98.  Realized right off we'd forgot the fishfinder, which definitely was a bummer.  We trolled around early in the day in the Tally Creek area with no success, and spent a few minutes in the Quartzville Creek area with no success.  We went back out late morning and and again late afternoon from the island about a mile up the Middle Santiam arm and managed to bring home 7 fish but lost at least twice that many.  The wind was blowing hard and it was difficult to land fish in those conditions.  We had the most success at setting the downriggers at 25 feet but even caught one with the spinner trailing behind the boat waiting to hook up to the downrigger.  We used a flasher rig followed by a Robbie's pink or red spinner with the double hook rig with corn and Pauske salmon egg.

Nice to see fish at Green Peter again.

This report submitted by  Dan Meyers

June 4, 1998

After my miserable trip over Memorial weekend it was good to get back to Green Peter.   I arrived around 9:30 and checked out the area between the Whithcomb boat launch and the island.  No fish marked so I headed up the Quartzville arm.  I started marking fish and put out my home made down rigger with flashlight flashers and wedding ring.  I finally purchased some real silver blades for my wedding ring spinners and plastic clevises that allows me to change blades quickly if I want.  I started picking up a few with a red wedding ring.  The further up the arm I went the more fish I marked.  I tried rowing but was not having much luck.  So I switched over to motoring and had more luck.  In the middle of the day orange was the color. I was using Potski egg/anise corn combo all day.  I also used size 4 hooks and only lost two fish and missed maybe 3 take downs.  I ended the day with 18 Kokanee. 

One word about poles for down riggers.  If you are like me and are too cheep and don't want to spend the time to make a pole, I have a suggestion. I picked up a Custom Made (this is the brand name) 6.5 foot light action graphite rod (GX625S) from Kmart for 40 dollars.  It works great.  Probably not as nice as the one Robert mentioned, but still very nice.

This report submitted by  Brian Russell

June 2, 1998

I fished Green Peter on 6-2 for the first time.  I arrived early, 5:15, only to be welcomed by strong winds and rough water.  Nevertheless I gave it a go. I motored from the Whitcomb boat ramp to the Quartsville arm marking only a few fish along the way, some at about 10 feet some at 40.  I began fishing in the arm once I began marking some fish at about 40 feet.  I struggled controlling my boat for a couple of hours and managed only one fish with 3 lost.  The wind was tossing me about.  The one Koke was 11 inches.  I decided to move and look for more fish so I went out by area 4.  Several boats were fishing here, mostly wind drifting. Once again I marked few fish in this area, but saw several boats land a fish or two in about an hour.  I guess I need more experience at Green Peter.  I never was able to troll at speed or pattern I would have liked.  I have a drift boat and I even used my oars but then kept missing strikes when my rod was in the rod holder.  More learning about Green Peter Kokes is on tap for me.  I will try again later. 

This report submitted by Kevin

June 2, 1998

Morgan, Syd and I arrived around 7:00 a.m. to experience the "Green".  What a delight.  We motored/wind drifted most of the time.   There were a number of boats in #1,2,3 so we headed the other way.  We started at #4  and progressed to #9 by the early afternoon.  What a blast!  31 Kokes in the boat and about 1 1/2 dozen rainbows which we let go.  Lots of action and but could only get every third or fourth fish in the boat.  We used, small spoon shaped spinners and a green wedding ring, splited bladed lake trolls with a red wedding ring, and a small wobbler with a non-discripe fish shaped lure behind it.  The addition of corn and worm combos and corn and red egg combos produced the best for us.

This report submitted by Mike Morse

June 1, 1998

My friend Jim and I went fishing at Green Peter on Sunday May 29th. The weather was beautiful and clear. We put his new boat (17' Arima) in the water around 7:15am. We trolled pretty close to area #4, but heading toward the island. We were using Flash-Lites and Kokanee Killers tiped with White Corn. We marked most fish about 40ft down. This was my first attempt with Kokanee. We ended up with a total of 11 Kokes and 1 Rainbow. I was astonished with the size of the fish. I always heard they were not very big (10 inches). All our fish were 12" and fat! Later in the day the wind picked up and the trolling was difficult. We then headed over to the first small cove between area #2 & #3 to do some rainbow fishing and get out of the wind. We ended up not staying there to long, as Jim was having reel problems. All and all it was a great trip for us. Kokanee fishing rules!!

Attached is a picture of the fish taken with a Kodak DC20 Digital Camera. You can't really tell the size.

This report submitted by Rick Hale

May 29, 1998

Went up to Green Peter again this week with my Dad. We went out on 5-28 & 5-29. The weather was great on the 28th. The fishing was a little slow at first, but once we were able to locate some good concentrations of fish we did pretty good. We were fishing mostly above Tally Creek arm using Flash-Lites with a wedding ring tipped with corn and red eggs. Picking up most fish in the 30 to 40ft depth range. We ended up with our limits with a few rainbow thrown in for good measure.  The weather on the 29th was terrible. The rain slowed to a drizzle twice for about 10 minutes.  The rest of the day it poured. =o(   Thank God my Dad's boat has a top on it. =o)  Besides the rain don't bother the fish. The day started out pretty hot for me. My Dad was experimenting with different flasher and wedding ring combinations. I stayed with my Flash-lite and wedding ring combo. Dad finally was able to find a setup entice the Kokanee. Most of the time when we would get into some fish, I was hardly able to set my pole in the holder and sit down before I had another one on. We had to leave a little earlier today and came home with about 40 fish........Still a lot of debris on the lake, so be sure to keep a close eye out!!!!!!!

This report submitted by  James Middlestadt

May 26, 1998

Headed up to Green Peter today after three weeks of going crazy watching the rain.  I decided a little water is better than nothing.  I started by the point,  #4,  and didn't mark a fish.  So I moved to the "logs" to see if any jigging would be available yet.  I didn't mark a fish.  So I trolled on the East side at point #2.  I marked some fish at 50 feet but didn't get a bite.   So I headed for the East side of the Island and didn't mark a fish.  By now it was 9:30 and time to try the Quartzville arm.  About half way up I still hadn't marked anything substantial, just an occasional fish at 50 feet.  I trolled my standard silver blade with red beads, #6 Gamakatsu, with Anise corn and Potski egg at 35 feet.  Without marking a fish I caught one, then another........and another, and another.  For a few hours it seemed like I always had a fish on!  Green Peter is back.  Now all I have to do is figure out why they don't show up on the fish finder.   I did mark one heck of a big gob of fish on the bottom.  I almost decided to jig them but I was having so much fun breaking in the new pole I never got around to it.   I left with 15 fish.  All of them were 10 1/2 to 11 1/2 inches and not like the pencil fish of a couple years ago.

Now I know why the last time the lake was so free of debris too.  I didn't fish the arm.  The further I got up the arm the more debris there was.   Not too bad, but definitely worth watching for.

This report submitted by Robert Nolan

May 24, 1998

Braved the Memorial day rains and tried Green Peter for about 6 hours in the AM.   Seen no schools on the finder...only scattered singles that could be rainbows or debris (LOTS of floating debris this year...was surprised).  Picked up 3 kokes and 4 stocker rainbow half way up the Quartsville arm.  The kokes are nice sized...11 to 12 inches.  Anyone find any schools???

This report submitted by Rod Graves

May 21, 1998

Went fishing at Green Peter on 5/14,5/20,and5/21. The 14th was the first time I've fished Green Peter from a boat.   The weather was terrible. The only good thing about it was that the wind didn't blow until we were leaving, around 4:00. Took a little time to get the right amount of line and weight figured out to get down to where the Kokanee were.  First fish of the day was a 15 1/2" Rainbow. I heard that there were some big ones in there, but it's the first one I've caught up there. The Kokanee seem to be scattered over most of the lake. We caught 13 Kokanee and 5 rainbow on the 14th.

On the 20th the weather wasn't any better.  With all the rain there was a lot of debris on the lake. No running around full throttle without keeping a very close eye out for logs. Did a little better this time.  We caught 38 fish
altogether. About half a dozen were rainbows.

Went back up on the 21st, after the hard rain the 24hrs before. I thought there was a lot of debris on the lake the first two days!!!! There was a least twice as much on this day. Had to do a lot of dodging to make our way up the lake. Had a light rain and calm conditions in the morning. The wind picked up pretty good later in the day which made trolling kinda tough. :( We left with 58 fish this day with just a few rainbow thrown in. The fish seem to be pretty well scattered throughout the lake. So if they're not biting where you are at, just keep moving and you'll find them. The debris was really bad when we first got out on the lake, but later that afternoon when we left there was very little to be seen. I don't know if someone came out and cleaned them off. I saw some along the banks on the way back to Thistle Creek, but it was mostly small stuff. Not the large logs and root wads I'd seen earlier in the morning. Keep an eye out, just in case.

This report submitted by James Middlestadt

May 4, 1998

We were on Green Peter Saturday May 2nd from 9 AM to 4 PM.   We had action almost the entire time.  We started at a location new to us, east of #5 along the South shore and West of #7.  It was pretty much across the mouth of a cove.  Here we picked up a couple of Koke's and a couple of Rainbow Trout.   But the fish were mostly scattered and we spent too much time there.  As we headed to the island the wind came up hard, so we decided to duck in our favorite haunt, the Quartzville arm up past the Whitcomb Ck ramp and around the bend.  We troll form just around the point just past the mud line up to the nest bend.  We found several large to medium schools of fish off rocky points along the south shore, just like they were a few years ago.  We also caught several fish (Kokes and 'bows) along the east bank just past the bend.  They were pretty tight to shore at the 50+ ft depth.   They were hitting a variety of terminal tackle, so I will not go into that.

This report submitted by Burton Hawley

This report submitted by Brad Dixon

April 28, 1998

Yesterday my Son went to Green Peter around 4:00 PM. to fish off Kokanee Bridge.  He said he fished a couple of hours without a bite and left.  No other people were fishing at the time.

This report submitted by Robert Nolan

April 18, 1998

Yesterday I went to Green Peter and trolled all day with only 1 kokanee caught, they are hard to find this time of year.  After trolling I went through an opening in the cables with pipes at the dam and tried jigging for a half hour and had lunch. One of the caretakers of the lake stopped on the dam and told me to get out of the dam area and if he had his uniform on he would cite me for being there.   I asked him if the pipe and cable thing was going to be there all year and he said "yes", anyway, there goes my favorite jigging spot, I really enjoyed being able to tie up there, relax, and catch a smoker full of kokes.

This report submitted by Harold Stranix

April 15, 1998