12-08-2023, 07:10 PM
(12-08-2023, 06:09 PM)doitall5000 Wrote: Interesting story in Japan. There are kokanee strains in Canada that grow to 4 or 5 years before spawning, getting larger. There are are some that are very successful in spawning on the shore and don't need to use a river.
I've always advocated planting king salmon in strawberry in place of cutthroat. There may be good reasons not to plant kings, but they know lots more about this than me.
So I'm not fully caught up with salmon and what all the ins and outs are. I heard Kokanee are land locked fish that can't get to the ocean to grow up, not sure whether they are an ocean going strain that got land locked and became Kokanee, or if they are a complete separate species, (I thought they were silvers that got land locked, but I don't know if that was from a reliable source or just someone's guess.) but to my knowledge Kings are an ocean going variety and I'm not sure they could stay in fresh water for their full lives and thrive... but again I haven't studied into that enough to know... Would be cool if they would live and grow to full size in a pond like Bear Lake, but that's a wild dream... I caught a really nice cutthroat at Bear Lake a few years back through the ice and as I watching it through the hole I thought it looked like a King salmon with the water magnification it looked huge... It was still a good fish 27", but it wasn't near as big as I thought it was... Later Jeff
When things get stressful think I'll go fish'en and worry about it tomorrow!