I started saving the spines with a little meat on them and some of the other parts I trim off in a zip lock. I'm going to try boiling them with vegetables to make a soup stock for a salmon soup.
I really have not had that bad of time with copepods on LBC kokes this year and size has been decent for LBC. In January we were seeing up to 12" and pretty good shoulders. It seems like they have thinned down over the last couple months but we are still catching mostly 11-11.5 with the occasional 12 (and the occasional 9.5). As far as the copepods are concerned I just flick them off when i am filleting the fish snd don't worry about them.
My kids and I were stoked to see your boat driving through the campground when we were at North Twin. We picked up 4 of your lures at Odell the day before. Stoked to use them this year! Thanks for the info man.
Great video Jeremy….appreciate the time you take to give us these updates and advice!!😊 Would it be possible for you to do a video talking about these new sonar techniques using them to find and stay on a ball of kokanee…a lot of new stuff out there in these sonars now and what’s really needed to fish these Kokanee best as we can using them….again thank you for all you do for us Kokanee anglers😊
I had some success with the blue myso bug last Sunday on Merwin. Caught a nice 17 inch trout today - not on that as the only blue myso bug I have got trashed last sunday and I haven't retied that one -and it had a stomach full of black with blue shiny little bugs.
Yeah I caught one large trout also on an orange twisted hoochie…lol…go figure lol….went out Wednesday….did ok but no limits for the both of us…😊…had fun though so😊
Kokanee at Billy Chinook are running on the small side this year, but there are lots of them. Shouldn’t be an issue catching an easy limit. The Kokanee in that lake do have a Skin issue so I would skin them.
I think you are spot on for Odell, each school I marked would produce small fish. Fish with any size were mostly in groups of just a couple. The singles were sure fat tho
Good info Jeremy. Figured you would ;eave a care package in your boat for us (ha ha). But since you will be there Thursday, sounds like we will try to meet up after we get camp set. Really hope to see both of you there, it has been WAAAAYYYY to long
It was cool seeing you guys out there! We were the Burgundy pontoon. Thanks again for the dodger and Twisted Hoochie! Super slow year for Kokes at the Gorge. We averaged 5 fish a day the rest of the week in that same spot. Big fish though, 18"-20". Keep posting vids of your trip! Good luck!!
Flaming Gorge should be on every Kokanee fisherman's bucket list. I've only been there once back in the late 90's and I hooked the largest Koke's ever. The Koke's are acrobats, and I didn't have downriggers at the time, So I was using 4-oz banana weights, in front of the OLE standby " Ford Fenders w/Red Wedding Ring " and worm, half of them came flying out of the water. We were only 200' away from the boat ramp and it was a rodeo immediately! We didn't eat fish back then ( our mistake ) we were stayed at Dutch John and gave the fish to our neighbors at the campsite. I hooked one HUGE Mac never weighed it, but I estimating about 17-lbs or more. I'm killing it at Merwin w/ the Orange Twisted and Arrow flash gold/moon jelly. Your TWISTED work great at Riffe also! Tight lines, and it's seldom that you get into Koke's that take line and run away. So Debbie must have had goosebumps . . . LOL. ;-)
Nice to see Wallowa lake still producing good sized kokes . My favorite lake to fish when I lived in NE Oregon. I can appreciate the miles you put in with a boat behind you to get there.
