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Reports > 2025 > September > Wednesday 17
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
 
By Dave Graybill
 
The final stop on the two-day, three destination fishing adventure with Rollie Schmitten was at Buffalo Lake, on the Colville Indian Reservation. Rollie and I had fished here many years ago and had always wanted to get back to this scenic lake. The lake is known for big triploid rainbow, carryover planted rainbow, kokanee, crappie and largemouth bass. Crawdads are also abundant in the lake. I was particularly interested in seeing how big the kokanee were this year. After launching the Bob Feil Boats and Motors Smoker Craft at Reynolds Resort, it was a short run on the Mercury 250 to the first bay. We put out the kokanee gear when I saw fish on the Garmin I set the trolling speed at 1 mph on the Minn Kota. It about two minutes to get our first kokanee. We were fishing at 57 feet on one of the Scotty downriggers, 47 feet on the other and 43 feet on the back rods with 6 ounce sinkers. I was trolling Kokabow Tackle blades with either pink spinners or hoochies, baited with corn, and they all caught fish. The kokanee were 15 to 16 ½ inches, except for one smaller fish.