07-26-2018, 04:44 AM
Well, I am not sure how to respond without offending a lot of folks, but most of the people I see at the fish cleaning station would like to catch kokes, but haven't figured it out. Most are cleaning slot cutts and think they have rainbows. It sounds easy, just sit in the boat and troll around, but easy it is not. We do well now, but it has taken a lot of practice and fine tuning to get them regularly.
That said, Strawberry is a special lake with a great koke population, close to the Wasatch front. Kokanee are great fighters. Even my wife, who fished with me today can tell from the bite if it is a kokanee or a cutt. The cutts like to relocate across the lake with so little fight that you can barely tell they are there. The kokanee take the line off the rigger, scream all across the water, going airborne time after time. The first 4 we got on Monday, were big enough that they tore up all my rigs and I had to re-tie.
Now I will give you that a good sized rainbow will give a battle, but fishing with power bait is not my cup of tea.
As others have said, the koke window is short, so right now you are going to see kokanee fishermen. For me jigging, that is what the ice is for (while dreaming of summer kokes).
Good luck and hope you have a great time jigging for cutts - to each his own pleasures.
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That said, Strawberry is a special lake with a great koke population, close to the Wasatch front. Kokanee are great fighters. Even my wife, who fished with me today can tell from the bite if it is a kokanee or a cutt. The cutts like to relocate across the lake with so little fight that you can barely tell they are there. The kokanee take the line off the rigger, scream all across the water, going airborne time after time. The first 4 we got on Monday, were big enough that they tore up all my rigs and I had to re-tie.
Now I will give you that a good sized rainbow will give a battle, but fishing with power bait is not my cup of tea.
As others have said, the koke window is short, so right now you are going to see kokanee fishermen. For me jigging, that is what the ice is for (while dreaming of summer kokes).
Good luck and hope you have a great time jigging for cutts - to each his own pleasures.
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