Flaming Gorge Fishing Report- 8/28/08

[Ryno]

Got out on the pond for a few hours this morning, before the holiday weekend commences. It will also likely be my last voyage out after the prized kokanees! Fishing was really pretty good! Water temps have cooled, and were sitting between 65-66F.

We hooked a nice koke (18 incher) right off the bat, on a Mai-tai Serpent spoon running at 55ft. In just over an hour, we caught 4 more (small 14 inchers) plus a nice 16-inch bow on pink and red Radical Glow tubes trailing RMT dodgers (pink/green, hyperplaid). Fish were caught between 50-60ft, trolling around 2.0mph. The koke fishing has been tough, and most of the fish are small. I suspect the bigger fish are moving uplake.

We switched to macks and found them just as cooperative. We boated 8 pups (14-18 inches) in about an hour and half using the Mai-tai Serpent spoon and a Williams spoon in rainbow trout color (see pic). Lures were tracking from 70-75ft, at about 1.8mph, close to vertical structure just downstream from Bear Creek.
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All together, we harvested 8 macks, 4 kokes, and one bow, in just under 3 hours of fishing. Now it's time to warm-up the BQ grill. Hope it helps, Ryno
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[lunkerhunter2]

Sounds like the 4 of us that went to BB timed it well. Next year i will be back earlier in the year. Thanks for the update.[cool]
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[line_dangler]

[font "Times New Roman"][#000000]It is a great day when you can catch your limit of pups plus some bonus fish. I can smell your grill from here. [] Have you seen any of the bigger kokanee starting their business or is it too yearly? Last year around the end of septmember we saw many stacked up by Trout Creek there. It was like seeing them in the Northwest. It sure is a sight for soar eyes. So is a bunch of Mack pups.[/#000000][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][#000000]Now that we have talked so much about burbot, I wonder if they are going to start coming in after the kokanee start spawning and starting to eat the eggs. If I or anyone could see this, would it happen in day or night? [/#000000][/font]
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[Ryno]

No, it's right about now that they start. The last couple of year's the kokes have started to run up Sheep Creek by the first of September, peaking around the middle of the month.

Burbot have been documented eating kokanee eggs from the reservoir spawning kokes that run in October-November. I don't know if they would move into Sheep Creek to raid nests, being the creek is so warm this time of year (mid-50s).

Ryno
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