View Poll Results: When do you start fishing for Kokanee?

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  • Start now fishing for next years fish.

    7 24.14%
  • Ice Fish all winter.

    3 10.34%
  • Wait until next spring.

    20 68.97%
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Thread: When do you start fishing for Kokanee again???

  1. #1
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    Default When do you start fishing for Kokanee again???

    Will you just switch over to next years crop now?
    Ice fish for Kokes all winter?
    Wait until next spring?
    "The Fish Whisperer" 21' Alexis Classic Thunder Jet

  2. #2
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    The lake I fish for kokanee is a high elevation lake. We normally target them up there into mid September. When the spawners outnumber the keepers we call it a season. The lake is closed during the winter months, and even if it was open your looking at a 10 mile trek in by either snowshoes, cross-country skis, or snowmobile. Then, if you make it up there, you'd have to shovel around 8' of snow off the ice.

    I work on lures during the winter...

  3. #3
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    I can't wait for ice fishing. I pulled up on a construction site this morning and there were 5 or 6 pickup trucks parked there. I knew it was an early ice fishing convention. Sure enough that was the topic of conversation. When will it freeze so we can go have some fun!
    "The Fish Whisperer" 21' Alexis Classic Thunder Jet

  4. #4
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    since merwin is dead in the winter, where do you go for winter kokes?

  5. #5
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    I am considering another trip around the 1st of September but there are a couple of problems. 1. The reservoir will be drawn down so far that it will be a nearly 50 mile boat ride one way because the upper lake ramps will be high and dry. 2. The steelhead are here and the numbers are breaking records.

    So I either spend gas money for a 100 round trip road miles plus another 100 miles round trip in a 2 ton boat to catch kokanee that may not be edible or I launch the boat 10 minutes from my house and catch fresh A-run steelies within 4 miles from my front door. Hmm...now that I see it in black and white it seems like a no-brainer. But I got some really cool untested kokanee stuff I wanna try!
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  6. #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by king koke View Post
    since merwin is dead in the winter, where do you go for winter kokes?
    For kokes in the winter, I head for the freezer out in the garage.

  7. #7
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    SILVER BULLETS I'M WITH YOU... USE TO DO THE ICE FISHING WHEN I LIVED IN WISC. ... THE SHANTIES USE TO BE THE BEST PARTY HOUSES AROUND.

  8. #8
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    Yep, the freezer is the only cold as I want to feel.
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  9. #9
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    I've never ice fished, but would love to try it sometime...especially for kokanee! I've read reports and seen some great pictures of your ice fishing adventures from years past MMM, and will be looking forward to seeing more this winter.

  10. #10
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    usually January at Lake Billy Chinook.

  11. #11
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    I always wait till spring when I know I can take the shrink wrap off the boat and any snow that gets in it will usually melt within a day. Besides it takes all winter to save enough money to make the repairs required from the previous season of kok fishing at the gorge.
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  12. #12
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    Jun 2008
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    Kokanee Capitol, utah
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    Start koke fishing??? I don't ever really stop. Just for the closers.

  13. #13
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    March-May / Macks, Rainbows and German Browns
    June - September / Kokanee anywhere, everywhere I can get to them.
    2009 to much work, 2010, I plan to be gonefishng.

    Hurray up spring!

  14. #14
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    We catch kokes through the ice on the smaller impoundments and considdering ice or no ice, why would anyone really stop chasing them. If they're anything like me, they don't miss too many meals!
    Last edited by SmokeOnTheWater; 01-02-2010 at 11:13 PM.

  15. #15
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    WHAT?
    You mean there's a time when your not suppose to fish for Kokes???
    "THEMS FIGHTING WORDS MY FRIEND!!!!!

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