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Happy Saturday at Stampede. Need a “That was east” button. Got to hide in the fog and was all alone. Sun broke out and only had 3 more to go for a triple. Early day today. Paulina Peak Tackle clown and pink lemonade still top colors for us. When the sun broke through, saw there was an armada fishing one area. Never made it to

2 trips at Stampede Reservoir today. Not as fast and not same location. Not much shallow today. Played around with colors today and Paulina Peak Tackle clown and pink lemonade hoochies were top producers. 2nd trip had to go deep to get under next years fish.

Quick trip this morning at Stampede for a retired naturalist and college professor. In other words, very smart people. Lol. Had a great time catching fish and watching the awesome air show. Paulina Peak Tackle anything with pink. Clown. Cotton candy, pink lemonade, watermelon. Combinations of colors working better than straight colors. Depth is constantly changing. Trying to say 5’-25’ off the bottom wherever I’m fishing.

Only one group at Stampede today so we had time to weed through the smaller ones at 13”-14” and keep the 15”-16”ers. Fished multiple depths, colors and locations. Seemed I was follow me guide Service today but I’ll take that badge of honor.  Paulina Peak Tackle clown, cotton candy, and pink lemonade hoochies and watermelon Tahoe spinners did most of the catching. Tried and caught on a

Little slowdown today at Stampede. Took till 10:30 to catch 7 limits. Released about a dozen 12”ers. COLOR CHANGE COLOR CHANGE Hot color today was Paulina Peak Tackle cotton candy UV hoochies and Tahoe spinners. Everything else the same. Taking a few days off, be back next week.

Beautiful morning at Stampede with 5 limits by 7:30. Little slower than before but more relaxing. Paulina Peak Tackle crack spinners in watermelon, orange, and pink n purple still best I’ve found.

2 more trips today at Stampede. Great morning bite till around 8 and hit a wall at 24 kokanee. Moved to where I would normally start for my late morning trip and quickly limited the boat. Paulina Peak Tackle crack spinners in watermelon, pink n purple, and orange. Short leaders at 8-10”. Depth was 40’-60’ otw. Speed at 1.1-1.3 If you were the boat that was

2 trips today at Stampede. Morning trip was faster action than yesterday. Caught em from 35’-50’ otw. Multiple doubles and triples. Paulina Peak Tackle watermelon spinner and pink lemonade hoochies 8-12” behind p lite dodgers trolling 1.1 SOG. Late morning trip started at 10am. Caught em 45-65’ otw. Paulina Peak Tackle crack spinners were tops in watermelon and pink n purple. Sped up a bit

With the big moon the bite typically slows a little and it has. About 10-15 kokanee an hour catch rate. Lol. Still great fishing with big chunky Kokanee. Still caught some in the shallows but did best in deeper open water. Paulina Peak Tackle watermelon UV hoochie still working but also caught em on pink lemonade and a watermelon spinner. Speed still same at 1.1.

After a couple days off, fish still in same place at stampede and the bite has not slowed at all. Same depth, speed, tackle, colors. Same everything except it was not bone chilling cold this morning. Don’t have any morning dates available next 2-3 weeks, only late morning trips starting 9 or 10am. Still catching east limits late morning. Have a few seats available for morning

Think I need a bigger front deck to hold all these Kokanee. Was a great bite today at Stampede. 35 kokanee by 8:30am!! That’s a little over 2 hrs fishing.   Morning started off slow. Went 20 mins without a bite. Then a triple hookup and 3 fish in the net together made a mess. Lol. Then it was difficult to keep 2 rods in the downriggers

These fish are growing at an alarming rate. Just a few weeks ago we were ecstatic with 15.5”. Now we’re getting some to 17”!!! Got boat limits early and even sped the boat up to 1.7mpj just to make it tougher to bring em in. Then I said let’s try for trout again. So we put on speedy shiners and needlefish and trolled the top