Sockeye Smackdown: Brewster Pool 2023 

I was born in Brewster so, at age 69, I'm headed back there in August to fish. Wish me luck. Great vid.

Love seeing local fisheries. You’ve certainly shortened my learning curve for fishing and it’s very appreciated.

Lol,…”snack bite”,… never fails!!!😊

What I absolutely love about your videos is that I'm down here in Tri-Cities fishing almost the same exact water at the same time for the same fish. So, thank you! Very helpful! The Salmon nuts down here anchor for them, but only a few people seem to have it dialed in.

Just in time for another cool adventure!

Nice video! Never seen sockeye caught on those rigs before, up here in Alaska we catch them in the the rivers on flies

I dream of coming up there to catch some sockeye salmon or king salmon. Just the name of the fish sounds super tasty. So nice to see that there are super nice fishermen out there looking out for each other.

I was just at Chelan Falls and got some Chinooks! Initially went to Wanapum but the wind was crazy, so we moved up north and had some luck.

Have you ever fished the Baker Lake Sockeye? Went yesterday on the opener it was epic everybody was catching fish, it was awesome!

Hell yeah I'm heading over next week!

Looks like a blast! I'll be there bright and early Thursday!

Went to Brewster pool with my wife in our boat 7/28, 29 & 30. Fished Friday night after we arrived, Saturday for 6 hours and Sunday morning for 4 hours before heading home to Spokane. Started with pink hoochies, spinners, 4 oz. cannon balls and the flashers/dodgers you use as well. Brined shrimp and 3 different scents in shrimp, tuna and the addicted gel. Tried different amounts of line out. Admittedly, 1 rod already had leaded line so I added 2 oz and used that out the back of the boat. Anywhere from 20-35 on the line counter, 3 poles fishing as slow as action would allow. We vary speeds as we speed up and come back down as well as turn often. You would see fish getting caught on the 100 boat fleet every now and then but nothing hectic. I had noticed the fish numbers over the dam have decreased and all fisherman/women were talking about how it had slowed down. It was dead fishing. Hot, weedy water, smokey, bugs (those little flyies!!!) and the smell of Sh*t on the air from farmers made it interesting. I remember what you said about trusting your electronics. Through Friday and Saturday we had one small Sockeye landed. We had been marking fish from 7-20 ft. but the majority, shallow 7-15 ft. Sunday I switched up things and put on a new flasher bought at the Ace Hardware down the road which was a small triangle (Brad's) Kokanee flasher in Moon Jelly. I tuned it for action and we started fishing with 1 oz of lead and running much shallower. 5 strikes and 2 hook ups that were lost at the boat before landing in the net. I wish I had listened to my instincts sooner and thrown away that silly ass 4 oz ball earlier. The answer ended up being more line, less weight and shallower fishing. Stayed just outside the fleet and putting on smaller Kokanee gear was the answer for more bites. The one fish we caught was on the pole with leaded line. Small Sockeye estimated at 2 lbs. If my math is correct between Hotel, gas, food and gear expense that was a very tasty $736.00 per lb. Sockeye. Thats why they call it fishing and not catching!! Hoping to do better at the end of September when we go to Garibaldi for the Quadfecta in Tillamook Bay. Chinook, Clams, Crabs and Rockfish. Fish On!!

It’s crazy to me how consistent that snack bite is on all your videos. Maybe the kokes smell good in the air… love the videos thanks for educating all of us on the elusive Kokanee. It’s helped the learning curve a ton. I’m headed out to Strawberry this weekend to hopefully catch a few but the bite down here in Utah has been weird this year with snowpack and weather.

Snack bites are the best 😎

I've been watching you for a while it was good to finally see ya in action. Way to put in the work out there.

I just hung up on bottom today trolling up the Okanagan River. Sadly It broke at my bumper. 😢 I guess I got to pay more attention to my lines.

Snack bite, sandwich bite, cigarette bite (other people) and most especially the pee bite.

Loved the video. Thanks! Was curious what line and lbs test you use for main line?

Great video, also have you ever done much walleye fishing around chelan falls? As a Canadian would be really cool to see some videos up here around okanagan lake, skaha, woods, kalamalka. all great kokanee lakes.

On the turn

Planning on being out there begining of August, hopefully the fish are still thick

They never let you eat! 😊😂

We had good results on macs wobbler baits in yellow n green. Threw one on by chance the quickly switched all the rods over.

Nice job buddy

Haha you didn’t need a net!

How do you think the Sockeye numbers will be compared to last year when the Sockeyes were at near records at Brewster Pool. You mentioned they were bigger than normal this year. Why do you think that is? Less fish, more food to go around? How long will Brewster Pool provide good fishing. We drove up from Central California last year later in July during that super hot spell 106-110 degrees (too hot!)

I went out to lake sawyer last weekend and caught one kokanee 10 trout

Bought some spinners from your links. Are you using the 10lb test that came with them? Or what lb test do you recommend? Thanks for sharing!

I'm hitting baker on sunday-monday. This got me even more excited.

Great videos! I am very interested in adding a powered propulsion system to my Hobie PA14/360. I just don’t know where to start and don’t want to make costly mistakes. I’m hoping you can give me some direction. Thank you for posting the fantastic content. Keep up the good work! 👍

Great video and tips. We’re you using any bait on the hooks, looked like shrimp at the start of the video, but couldn’t make out?

Have you caught any kings this year? Been fishing out by entiat with no success haha

Have you ever fished sockeye in the tri-city area? Seems like everyone is anchoring up down here, but from your videos it looks like trolling is the way to go. Any thoughts?

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I remember seeing you out there, we were in the camo boat!

Planning on fishing here soon. In terms of lead I’m going to be running 4 oz and 5oz at 25 and 30 on the counter. Would you recommend those numbers?

Jelly! Drive by on the 5th, but didn’t have any gear on me. What rod and reel do you use for salmon trolling?

What spinner are you fishing? Enjoy your videos very well done.

What size are those spinner blades?

I don’t like the Seattle style traffic on the water there, too stressful. I go fishing to relax. When I’ve gone there in the past it was over 100 degrees. I saw you were wearing sandals. Didn’t the tops of your feet burn?

Do You use any bait or scents on the dodger or spinner?

What do think of a size 2 Matzuo for Kokanee?

Doo you ever fish the Brewster Pool or Lake Pateros for walleyes? If so how does it compare to Lake Roosevelt or Banks Lake?

Are those the same fish that go to lake Wenatchee?

We’re any of the boats around you catching as well? It would be funny to loan you a net and then get skunked…

Is it reasonable to take an 11ft jon boat out there with a electric trolling motor?

Hey do you know if I can plunk from the from the bank and have any success

Hi Tyler, how many of those looney coons do you use on average per day at Brewster?

Off topic but ever try a standup bar or assist? Im too fat and old to be comfortable standing without a little prop up!

Are you tipping your spinners with coon shrimp?