I havent fished kokanee in strawberry since before COVID, Im planning on spending next week at Starvation and would like to try the Soldier creek side for Kokes. I havent noticed any posts about the fishing there. Does anyone have any info on what the Kokanee fishing has been there? Thanks

For a 'Poor fishing' day (solunar charts), Echo was actually fairly good this morning, at least early morning..trolling for the 'bows, buddy and I started by 0745..2 early hookups for me saw decent rainbows sky rocketing up and out, and unfortunately losing both..exciting for awhile..I lost another 1 like that, and then my buddy also, and we're thinking..what? are these kokanee?..but I don't think there are kokes in Echo..those 4 we lost, but then by 0930 we boated a good 2 man limit, all 15 to 17" range, just nice fish...a few more lite taps after that, but no more hookups..the trash boats started arriving by 0930, churning and burning...no more bites after 1000, even trying to escape their shenanigans for another hour of fishing...chartreus best for me, tipped with garlic flavored pink grubs..planer boards and down riggers worked today, early 17/18 feet down, then by 0900, 28 to 31 feet down...surface 70*...even more trash boats launching as we were trying to depart..I'd hate to be here on a Saturday..Guluk...

They're back, and have exploded. I caught several larger ones last year and early this year. They have evidently had an unbelievable spawn and are showing up in the shallows by the thousands. Such a sight to see. I think we all knew they'd be back, but I was hoping it wouldn't be this soon.

A couple years ago when fishing the Columbia River for salmon, I ran into four guys from Ogden area and we had good conversation and shared success stories of fishing the river and offshore.  Wife and I are headed up again (13th and last time) this year.  Was curious if anyone else on this forum is planning to make the trip this year.  Its always nice to talk to Utah fishermen when visiting other areas, so if you plan to go up this year, let me know.  I'll look you up and share info with you.
Sure like this forum and reading all your reports.  



ps: Our boat's for sale after this salmon season if anyone is interested.  Trueblue2

My oldest daughter is laid up from foot surgery, and wants to go after big catfish.  We don't have a boat, and I'm still learning the waters around Salt Lake.  Where's our best bet for some good cats that she can get to on crutches?

Thanks in advance for any help y'all can offer.

Paddler just made me aware of this and I thought I'd put it out there for people thinking of Jordanelle tomorrow. There is a Pro Wakeboard event scheduled there today and tomorrow. Apparently the events started today at noon, but it looks like the activities tomorrow start at 9:00. I couldn't find a lot of specifics online, but I think that may be a place to avoid tomorrow. If I go in the morning, it'll be Strawberry.

Wanted perch for lunch and had not seen any recent Pineview reports- so we decided to do both.

We are also playing around with a video series about vintage methods and how they compare so we took some classic red and white bobbers, courtesy of tubedude, and a few jigs and went to work. The flooded brush areas were loaded with panfish. The jig tipped with a worm about 2ft down got us about 50 perch and gills in couple hrs. Enough over 9 inches to provide a bunch of fillets for lunch. Took em home and enjoyed.

Video link

https://youtu.be/QzrYDGNJiZk?si=zkQZfAMPmUxecuJf

I was up at Jordanelle yesterday and was surprised to see a couple of DWR stocking trucks at the ramp.  They were there stocking Tiger Muskies. Lots of them.  Seems they had one of the moist successful years ever and after stocking what Utah wanted, giving and trading to other states there were still a mess left over that they had to get out of the hatchery ponds.
They said the crowding they experience at hatcheries, combined with the warm weather and the fact that these were twice the size of normally stocked Muskies that these were eating them out of house and home. 
So, time to make it on their own.
The DWR people said 10,000 fish about 7.5 inches long were put in yesterday.  They were all over the shorelines, being carefully placed in prime spots by the several boats they had working.
I don't know what the growth rate will be, or survival, but I look forward to having another close place to target the monsters they can become. Someplace my state parks pass is accepted.

I just finished waxing my two ice sleds.  Much easier to wax them when the sleds are 90 to 100 degrees than when they are cold in the late fall or earlier winter.

I was not going to post this quick trip to Rockport for some lunch fillets but I got some cool underwater footage of a bunch of smaller perch attacking our floating jigs thought I would share it..

In the way of report. Rockport is still hot for panfish and bass. The details of how and such are not any different than my last RP post 

https://youtu.be/0I4H4dn36BQ