Fished 3:00-5:30 on Saturday. Caught a cutthroat at 3:05 and a koke at 5:20. Like bookends.
Marked a few others, but didn't get on top of a school of kokanee. The one I caught was a loner as far as the vex was could tell.
Ice was 7" and the edges good.
Great day to be out.
PM
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Funny how that works that you catch a fish right away, and then it dies. I wonder if there is some unwritten code in the fishing rules that we don't know about! [crazy][laugh][laugh]
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I was there with the scouts on Friday night and Sat. We only caught one Koke, but we got into a good school of perch. Thank goodness for the perch. they saved the day and the scouts had a good time.
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I arrived there about 4:30pm and left around 6:30pm without a bite. I talked to two other groups who said they had minimal sucess. I Marked 1 or 2 fish every minute or two when we moved closer to shore but no takers. Decided to stop on the way home from Pali
es where I saw two 13-14" fish caught earlyer than 9:30am. It was the first skunk of the year.
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any theories on why Ririe is fishing poorly for kokes this winter?.....I noticed that trolling this year was really good all through the hottest months where in years past it would definitely slow down by mid July. I wonder if they are just late or if there was never a flip in the water column temp?????....what do you guys think?
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Could the open water just beyond the mile marker be a factor?
Maybe MMDom caught all the kokanee last summer?
Windriver's shanty fiasco made them skittish?
PM
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or maybe mums the word?.......we sure had a good spring and sunmer for them but i have only been once this winter and everyone i spoke to said fishing was poor
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I'm wondering if the heavy early summer runoff had some effect. Is the reservoir holding more water that last winter? I like to fish Willow Creek and I didn't see near as many reds in the creek last fall as I have seen in prior years.
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that sounds logical to me and we caught 6 in early august close to juniper that were either turning red or were already there...is that early for reds?
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