We koke fishing fanatics can help our own cause by contacting your state legislators and state fisheries dept with requests for more hatchery planting/stocking programs for kokanee in more lakes and reservoirs especially close to high population urban suburban areas.
A number of lakes and reservoirs on the west side Cascades could carry larger populations of kokanee but the state fisheries depts main target is rainbow trout. Easy to catch on bait for the weekend fishing family on bait from shore. Fisheries spends far too high percentage of their funds on rainbows and so little on koke programs. Ask them to increase the percentage to kokes.
Ever try to eat one of those triploid genetic engineered 5lb rainbow trout, carp tastes better, but the not so bright guy with a $1000 fly rod thinks he has a TROPHY. Definitely not the other WHITE meat for eating.
Lk Whatcom
Lk Cavanaugh
Lk Shannon
Baker Lk.
Spada Lk
Lk Champlain
Tolt Res.
Cle Elum Lk
L. Kachess Lk
Keechelus Lk
Chester Morse Lk
Howard Hanson Res.
Lk Kaposin
Tanwax
Chop Lk
Alder Lk
Mayfield Res.
Riffe Lk
Merwin and Swift Res.
Most of these could carry far larger plants of kokanee by WDFW in an enlargement of a statewide koke program. Kokes and trout do not compete for the same forage generally especially as they grow larger.
Would take the unsustainable fishing pressure off the few koke waters we have now. Ever try to get into the Merwin boat launch on a busy summer weekend?
Does American Lk have a spawning population in streams or lake shore gravel beds or does the fishery totally rely on plants?
My fishing/hunting licenses/tags and boat license + taxes including the Fed fishing tackle tax. totalled over $500 this year. We need to demand our money's worth. It's a paid for by fisherman resource
Last edited by smokin' Kokes; 06-05-2012 at 05:23 AM.
I take my Omega 3 one Koke at a time. 5 Kokes a day keeps the fisherman happy.
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