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Curious what you guys are thinking the gorge will look like this upcoming season?
Rumor has it they are thinking it will drop another 6-8' (word around the boat slips anyways)
looking already like were not going to have the most stellar snow year like we really need to get the levels back higer.
We didn't get a chance to fish the lake at all last season (first year in a decade we didn't get at least one trip in) but watched the reports pretty heavily and seen where the fishing was pretty hard and not a great koke year.
We are considering buying a smaller fishing boat (Currently fishing off a 32' cruiser) and want to target more pups then anything but curious what the upcoming years have in store for the reservoir
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I had a terrible year getting confined to wife care early this year during the spring. I made purchases for Wyoming AIS & Flaming Gorge Reciprocal, didn't even get to the Gorge once this year and usually get in 3-4 trips. Like targeting kokes mainly but do catch a couple pups occasionally. Koke fishing in 21' was down for me so after hearing from others that I didn't miss much this year deciding to give it a rest for 23'. Even Strawberry numbers were down for me this year and had limited trips there too. I decided to make a purchase for the Wyoming AIS decal & Wyoming day fishing License only which I'm targeting some trips to Fontanelle instead. Can't do much about gas pricing only to get out to enjoy.
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I call for another bad Kokanee season but the pup fishing will continue to be great. That being said the pups are a blast to catch vertical jigging. I was blown away with how thick the pups were this year in spots. It still blows my mind thinking about it.
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We went quite a few times and did really well targetting larger lakers and kokanee. However...there were mornings and afternoons where we wished we had a "lets just go catch some pups" backup plan. I used to have a couple of really nice honey holes marked in the big bend area, and I'd be willing to go there again if I knew the pups were biting there like they used to. We searched a few times based on people telling us where we could find them, but never really found them other than one or two here and there.
Also, I'm not picky. I don't care if we troll, jig, cast, etc.
That is one of our goals this year...find the pups.
I'm also a little discouraged with the cost of everything being more expensive but I can't do anything about that other than pay to play.
I used to N.ot have E.nough T.ime O.ff to go fishing. Then I retired. Now I have less time than I had before. Sheesh.