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-Team KokaneeKid Fishing (KKT) Pro Staff
- Pro-Cure Bait Scents
- cVz Customs
- Scotty Fishing Products

I just finished making Dungeoness crab Fra Diavlo bow tie pasta topped with grated and of course more crab. For those w...
07/21/2025

I just finished making Dungeoness crab Fra Diavlo bow tie pasta topped with grated and of course more crab. For those who do not know, Fra Diavlo is a spicy red sauce and it is amazing! This post and pictures, with associate smell-a-vision, is specifically for my good friend who is always posting his amazing dishes with his fresh harvests. Nothing beats home cooking from scratch using game you harvest. Tight lines everyone!

Spent an absolute gorgeous morning on the water yesterday with my daughter Aisy Litrakis and Nolan Peterson at the Orego...
07/20/2025

Spent an absolute gorgeous morning on the water yesterday with my daughter Aisy Litrakis and Nolan Peterson at the Oregon coast. Took them to one of my honey holes for a rare mid summer crabbing trip to see if we could manage a few keeper dungies. It would be Nolans first "true" crabbing expedition. Crabbing was not hot by any means but it was very good. We definitely had to work for them. Pots were coming up full with many big females and juvies. We would often get one or two keepers in most pots. We crabbed from 7AM until 10 and pulled 22 keepers that were hard. The uncommon part of the trip was that the majority of keepers were JUMBOS! Normally you will get 2 or 3 JUMBOS, maybe a half dozen. On this trip we only caught maybe a half dozen crabs that were not gauge busters. It was a pretty incredible deal.
Weather was great. Light overcast and cool early giving way to sunny skies and just a light breeze. We used fish carcasses and chicken but enhanzed with Pro-Cure Bait Scents Crab and Shrimp attractant oil.
Had an absolute blast spending the day my family and then coming home and having big ole crab feed.

If you know, you know...Made a little breakfast from where I come from. Sure it should have been on a Kaiser roll but a ...
07/17/2025

If you know, you know...
Made a little breakfast from where I come from. Sure it should have been on a Kaiser roll but a hamburger bun is all I could get out here on short notice. Nothing beats starting the day with comfort food! "Pork roll, egg and cheese with salt, pepper, ketchup buuuudDY"
How many of you actually know??? Drop me a comment.

Odell report 6/30/25 We had an awesome 4 days at Odell staying/glamping at Shelter Cove. Despite some windy afternoons w...
07/01/2025

Odell report 6/30/25
We had an awesome 4 days at Odell staying/glamping at Shelter Cove. Despite some windy afternoons we were able to get a lot of fishing in.
In the four days we fished we put 97 kokanee in the cooler and caught more than 160. The fishing is very good and the fish are plentiful but much smaller this year compared to last. The fish are running 11-14" with the bigger being very hard to come bye. We ended up finding some 13's and only two 14's despite hearing many talk about catching many. The evening of our first day and a portion of the morning of day two we spent a lot of time releasing d***s. It was not until mid morning that we finally got on a better fishing pattern.
We fished KokaneeKid Fishing tackle with the hot rigs being the Wickiup mosquito, Ole Blue 44, purple and pink twisted hoochies. We caught fish from the surface down to 100+ ft on our Scotty Fishing Products downriggers. Our dodgers of choice were Poulsen Cascade Tackle arrow flash in gold, gold and silver moonglow and water melon. Sean's and Kitchen sink corn sealed the deal as usual. The Pro-Cure Bait Scents cures work so well. I even passed on some corn to a couple of gentlemen at the cleaning station for their final day of fishing hoping to increase their odds of catching more. Great meeting you gentlemen. My cVz Customs rods are getting a crazy worlout this year and like the old Timex commercials, they take a lickin and keep on tickin! Speed varied through the four days but a 1.2 mph average was about right. Conditions were typical for Odell, chilly and calm in the morning and blowing up late morning with warm clear skies.
We did manage to catch 3 mackinaw with the largest being 22" which made my future son in law very happy. All in all a great camping and fishing trip.
Special thanks to all the great people we ran into and yuked it up with! Boyd Blanchard , Nat at Scream N Reelz, Eric, Bill Adams, the Harris clan and everyone else who made this trip so fun!
I absolutely love spending time with my family in the outdoors, especially when "my" adult kids join us. Nothing better than being together with famiky in the outdoors. So happy that Aisy, Karen, Nolan, Jake Pickett, Clyde and Val could spend time and enjoy the beauty of Odell. Love and appreciate you all!
So many fun memories!

Aisy PB kokanee! 🫏
06/19/2025

Aisy PB kokanee! 🫏

06/18/2025

Great giveaway for B10 trip!!

06/18/2025

Eli's PB kokanee. This kokanee was ripping drag and made him nervous but he handled it great. Memories we will all never forget.
Please excuse the almost cuss word at the end of the video...I was SO excited for him😂
That smile though...priceless!

Another amazing Cross the Divide Wallowa lake derby is in the books. What a great event for a worthy cause, Veterans. Th...
06/15/2025

Another amazing Cross the Divide Wallowa lake derby is in the books. What a great event for a worthy cause, Veterans. This was the 4th annual and my second annual. Such an incredible area, pristine lake and awesome fishery. This derby was made even more special because not only were my good friends and last year's partners on board, but my daughter Aisy Litrakis joined our team. We found a great bite prefrishing Thurs and it stayed hot through day one of the derby landing us in 1st place going into day two. Well, how quickly things change when our late morning bite never materialized on day two of the derby. We ended up catching 30+ fish day two but no decent fish so we weighed a small limit. We finished 10th overall and are very proud to have placed in the top ten in consecutive years despite the sting of a dissappointing day two bite. Many incredible highlights for this three day trip and derby after starting off with me not sleeping for 39 straight hours due to the almost 14 hour drive getting here due to I-84 closure. Day one of the derby was the single best day of kokanee fishing I have ever experienced weighing a 9.52lb limit of five fish. More memorable was seeing not only my daughter, but my very dear friends' son catch their PB kokanee. Both are memories I will never forget.
We fished six rods, five on downriggers (2 stacked on one manual Scotty Fishing Products ). The last rod we fished a snap weight using a 2oz cannon ball. All our fish were caught between 20 and 60ft of depth and our hot colors were KokaneeKid Fishing Chartruese twisted hoochie and purple twisted hoochie. We fished Poulsen Cascade Tackle arrow flash dodgers in various colors. Our presentations were tipped with Sean's corn (tuna garlic) and Kitchen sink corn cured with Pro-Cure Bait Scents products. My not so new (anymore) custom rods from cVz Customs got a SERIOUS workout this trip and not only handled the task, but looked amazing doing it. Water temp fluctuated between 59-67° depending on the day and and location of the lake. Winds went from breezy to flat calm and back to gusty from hour to hour but generally stayed kind the entire trip. Thank you again to Cross the Divide for another amazing derby as well as all the fine companies who support my outdoor lifestyle. We appreciate you very much!
Thank you David, Eli, Doug and of course Aisy for making this trip so special. Love you all!
Also special thanks for my close friends Clyde Jenne and Val (8th), David and Linda Gail for coming out and fishing this fantastic event along side us. It was a blast.

Day 2 begins
06/14/2025

Day 2 begins

Took the boat and dogs up to Detroit for a last minute checkout trip before my Wallowa trip on Wed. Got to the lake Satu...
06/09/2025

Took the boat and dogs up to Detroit for a last minute checkout trip before my Wallowa trip on Wed. Got to the lake Saturday around 8:30PM and fished for about an hour before I anchored up and camped on the boat in the middle of the lake for the night. Up at 4:30 and fishing by 5 AM. I got the call at 6 that some very dear Outdoor Specialists were meeting me at the ramp. I quickly motored over and picked up and .peterson13 at the ramp. We fished until 10:30 AM and boated five nice kokanee between 12.5" and 13" plus over 20 rainbow most between 16 and 19". We did manage a 20 and a 21" bruiser. Fun relaxing fishing until about 9:30 when the crowds of fishermen and pleasure boaters moved in.
We fished tackle with Chartreuse twisted being the hot lure for the morning followed by purple twisted. We fished four rods, three on the ball and one flat line. All kokanee came between 34 and 44ft. Trout caught at all depths from surface down to 44'. Speed was 1.1 - 1.3. Weather was gorgeous! Very warm, almost no wind and flat water. I fished with Sean's corn (tuna garlic) and Kitchen sink corn cured using It was nice to use my new rocket launcher rod holders mounted by Of course I fished with my cVz Custom Rods.

Okay Specialists, a little gear/hardware day today. I recently acquired a pair of 3-tube rocket launchers from a my frie...
05/31/2025

Okay Specialists, a little gear/hardware day today. I recently acquired a pair of 3-tube rocket launchers from a my friend He was not going to use them so I asked and they ended destined to be another upgrade to my Talon. As any Alumaweld Talon owners know, there are no flat surfaces on the gunwales to mount these 3x18 footprint launchers. I was steered towards Tyson at for his expertise in fabricating aluminum and stainless. Their new shop is awesome and much larger than the old one. He is a huge fisherman and loves to help others get the most of their boats. He does everything from repairs to design fabs. Tyson had me drop by the shop in Salem while he did a quick retrofit fab and BOOM! Here are the results! Exactly how I wanted them mounted! I hung out in the shop and chatted it up with Wayne and talked tavkle and fishing while Tyson got me set up. If you need work done, go see Tyson. Thanks man! I really appreciate your attention to detail and value your expertise. They will also have stainless downrigger stick weights along with their other products from crabbing, saltwater, salmon tackle and much more.

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