Still no kokanee at Ririe

[kentd71]

Me and obifishkenobi were the first ones on the water at Juniper this morning. It sure looks like a bunch of kokes on the finder down at 75 feet. But we couldn't get them to bite. A lot a fish showing at 25 feet also, so me and Shawn had our down riggers at 75 feet and 25. We got rainbows regularly at 25. Shawn started catching them on a orange dodger and orange huchie. He asked me if I had anything orange, so I put on a small orange flatfish and started nailing the trout at 25 feet. I eventually gave up on kokanee and fished another orange with black dots flatfish and caught them on that also. Nothing big, but good 1 1/2 pounds. It was fun and kept us busy until near noon. No pictures, all fish caught and released.

 This was our second attempt this spring and still nothing. We did catch one last fall but none through the ice this winter

How late last Fall, did you catch that koke, was it after the spawn?

We caught a single Kokanee near the end of the spawn. We saw a couple about 14” spawned out ones dead near the shore and a couple very red ones swimming also near the shore between the powerlines and Juniper. The one we caught was still Silver and around 12 inches.
At Anderson this July We caught a couple each day and lost a couple large ones that seemed to be around 20 inches .