The Kokanee start spawning around Thanksgiving week and last till the first or second week in December.  It is a great dive. 

  We dive at Higgens boat launch.  That is the boat launch at the very end of the old highway.  At this time of year, there is very little boat traffic.  There are two docks and we always come up under the main dock to check for boats before surfacing.  There is also plenty of parking and the bathrooms are normally still open.   

  The salmon school in the hundreds and your right in the middle of them.  Early in the season they are very active and you can't get very close.  After Thanksgiving, they start to slow down and that is when you can get right in with them.  We don't usually dive at the end of the run since the nature of these fish is to die, they deteriorate rather fast.

  The water temperature in the lake is currently 46 degrees.  The depths are from 25 ' - 100'.  The fish usually stay around 35' - 50'.  The bottom consists of rock that was dumped there during the construction of both highways (that is why the fish hang out there).  At around 80' it changes to mud. 

  There are also little item that have been thrown into the lake throughout the years, so the fish are not the only thing to see.  A diver once told me "You take an old truck axle and put it out in a field and you have junk. You take that same axle and throw it in a lake and you have treasure".  There is something just fun about finding items underwater.  last year we found a motorcycle that had been stolen in Post Falls and dump off the the main dock (some junk is better that other junk).

If anyone wants to brave the cold, we would love to dive with them. 

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