Okanagan lake is finally starting to pick up.
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We were in a white and green, Skagi Orca XLC 24' with a outboard Yam 300 on a pod.
The boat that is shown on our web site.
Our fish came on a old witch doctor plug at 30 ' at 0815[/QUOTE]
We were in my 18' Hewescraft, we fished the North close to "Bird **** Island" we had the first fish in the boat by 5:45
We launched out at Coral Beach, the only ones who did (no locked gates) we wanted to be on the water by 4:30 but I slept in and screwed it up
sassybroad
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good kokanee in ok lake
sassybroad
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yah i heard that yrs ago it was they are coming back to the lake i think
Kokanee fishing was closed in 1995. In recent years they reopened the fishery believing that the Kokanee stocks have recovered enough to maintain an open season without threatening extinction.
With the Kokanee now closed to fishing on Woods Lake I think there will be too much fishing pressure put on the Kokanee stocks in Okanagan Lake, with a 5 fish limit it is only a matter of time before they are in trouble again.
The new world record Kokanee was caught in a lake in the US I believe
With the Kokanee now closed to fishing on Woods Lake I think there will be too much fishing pressure put on the Kokanee stocks in Okanagan Lake, with a 5 fish limit it is only a matter of time before they are in trouble again.
The new world record Kokanee was caught in a lake in the US I believe
Big Green Machine
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Kokanee live there, they don't come back. It is slow fishing for Kokanee due to the size of the lake.
World record Kokanee out of Washington or Oregon, Ron Campbell is the angler.
sassybroad
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yah they did
That and years and years of excessive catch limits, along with poor timing in dropping the water level of the lake resulting in killing of the shore spawners eggs
Those of us who grew up here seen the irrigation ditches full of Kokanee in the late 60s early 70s, Mission Creek was red during spawning them years
sassybroad
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mission creek was the big spawning bed wasnt it for all the okanagan?
I think the people in power jumped the gun and opened the Kokanee fishing too soon, they should have waited through another full spawning cycle.
Waiting through another spawning cycle would have given the trout in the lake a chance to more fully take advantage of an improved Kokanee popuation without competing with fishermen, unfortunately I think the powers that be were under pressure from campsite ownwers and sporting goods stores etc.
What we need is Kokanee stocking program in Okanagan Lake and the sooner the better
JAC
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Yes in the kootenays they have a lot of funding by bc hydro or fortis from all the dams. They fertilize the lake I believe they use nitrogen this help the plankton that the baby Kokanee eat. But they have a lot of bucks to spend wish we did too. Also if they build the last 2 fish laders and get the sockeye back in the lake, this will also help the trout fishing big time. Both quesnel lake and Shuswap have lots of salmon fry for the Bows to eat.
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