How to Make Kokanee Salmon Lures - How to rig a hoochie

Great how-to video. I love the black background, which makes it easy to see what you're doing. Thorough detail. Thanks for taking the extra time to cover all the details -- I learned a few new tips!

Outstanding tutorial on how to make three kokanee lures. Extremely well done and very helpful. Thank you very much

Great video. I altered slightly what you do because I was having trouble getting that bottom hook close to the top hook after tightening it (the gap was too large even if I started the wraps on the bottom hook even with the two hooks touching). What I do is pretty simple — wait to fully tighten the first hook (top hook) until the very end. Once you tighten the bottom hook there will be the normal large gap. Then go to the top hook and finally tighten it, and it will slide down towards the bottom hook as it tightens, thus shortening the gap.

Great video. I use smile blades rather than the "French" blades for any spinners since they produce great action at slower speeds than the metal blades. I also use tapered beads in the squids because I'm too lazy to stack a bunch of beads in there. On the snells, I tie the bottom one like you showed, but do it first and then tie the top hook from the hook end forward. It's faster that way, and much easier to get the distance between hooks where I want it.

I watch alot of YouTube and dont ever comment or like but this video is great. Explains everything and end product looks great. I fish alot but never for Kokanee, cant wait to give this a go. Great video brotha.

Your a great wealth of information, looking foreword to making my own setup and hitting the lakes for some Kokanee !!

Just started trolling on my Colorado XT with a little electric motor. Can't wait to actually make my own lures to go out with! Thanks a ton for your work and advice!

Great vid Ty I now have some of the right materials I’m going to go try and make a few of these and then go up to porky pine this summer and try them out!!!!

Thanks so much for this great video. Very helpful!

Nice video; I tie similar lures for walleye fishing with nightcrawlers (harnesses), but don't need that knot. With my method, you can tie on your lowest hook first, then work your way up through the remainder of the add ons. Push the line through the eye of the bottom hook, just longer than the shank, then hold with your left hand. Grasping the rest of the line with your right hand, wrap 8-10 times tightly around the shank from the bottom up towards the eye, then push and pull the entire line through the eye. For the next one up, just feed the remaining long piece up through the eye, position it in relation to the bottom hook, and wrap and tie just like that one. Anything else to add, just slide down the line to the top hook (beads, spinners, blades, etc.) and finish.

Very informative and useful.

Been wondering how to tie those hooks. Very helpful thanks for doing this video.

I love the hoochie rig and this video's content .

Hey this was very helpful. Thanks for sharing.

Great video on making the lures. Can you provide a cheat sheet that tells where I can go to get the spinners, the spin and glow, sizes, etc. for all these three lures. I got the bead part, the hooks and the squid. An "ingredient" list would be very helpful and where to buy the ingredients.

Nice!! I’m going to make these

Very good, helpful video. Going to get into Koke fishing, very useful. Thanks! An FYI, one thing I've seen is people are using crappie tube instead of the squid in case you can't get squids.

great video, thanks for breaking down the steps.

A lot of great tips thank you

Great video and amazing instruction on how to do this. I've never targeted Kokanee and have no idea how to catch them but have always wanted to learn. Might have to pick up a few items and make my own because this looks easy peesy. I could make them but could I catch Kok's....?!?! Dont have a boat but I do have a sit in kayak but no downrigger. I know Scotty and other companies make small downriggers for kayak so I may have to look into that. Thanks for the video Ty, this looks fun. Just like tying flies. Still a bunch of ice on Strawberry but may have to go after Kok's once it's gone.