Ririe 7/24

[MMDon]

Let's start with the visuals. We know red turns gray at 20' or so but what the scientists failed to mention is the spectrum of gray is quite wide. This is how fish know red from other colors at 80' is red falls into a certain spectrum of gray as does every other color. Spawning fish are known to be territorial and during the spawn you catch the big hook nose Kokes by  fishing with red whether it is red flies in spawning steams or red hoochies fished on the sandy  bottoms of the lake. The fish will naturally slash at anything red just as they would slash at another red spawning Koke. It is a territorial strike and brings on a great fight though I wouldn't recommend eating them no matter how you smoke them. Remember, smoked dog poo is still dog poo.

That makes total sense but I've never heard that before. Here is a pic of some red kokes I caught on Monday, I've smoked them when they are more red than these and never had a problem with their taste but it really has more to do with how firm the flesh is, rather than the color, at least IMO.


Here is another one that I caught last year that is really red but it taste fine too.

To each his own. All of the physical transformations come straight out of the meat quality. I stop eating them once they absorb their scales. After that they are pretty much dog food to us. You should do you and if they please you, soldier on! 

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Let's start with the visuals. We know red turns gray at 20' or so but what the scientists failed to mention is the spectrum of gray is quite wide. This is how fish know red from other colors at 80' is red falls into a certain spectrum of gray as does every other color. Spawning fish are known to be territorial and during the spawn you catch the big hook nose Kokes by  fishing with red whether it is red flies in spawning steams or red hoochies fished on the sandy  bottoms of the lake. The fish will naturally slash at anything red just as they would slash at another red spawning Koke. It is a territorial strike and brings on a great fight though I wouldn't recommend eating them no matter how you smoke them. Remember, smoked dog poo is still dog poo.

That makes total sense but I've never heard that before. Here is a pic of some red kokes I caught on Monday, I've smoked them when they are more red than these and never had a problem with their taste but it really has more to do with how firm the flesh is, rather than the color, at least IMO.


Here is another one that I caught last year that is really red but it taste fine too.

To each his own. All of the physical transformations come straight out of the meat quality. I stop eating them once they absorb their scales. After that they are pretty much dog food to us. You should do you and if they please you, soldier on! 

When we fished Ririe heavy we would target the 2 year class fish by the third week of July. By trolling the bottom of the school column we could still pick up  3 year old fish that would appear to be holding over and still have scales.