Its back up. While the occasional koke runs through it looks like there are way more chubs or shiners hanging out around the camera than anything. I can’t imagine that being the DWR’s objective goal.
Was fly fishing Green river above the Gorge this week. Saw lots of Kokes heading upstream to spawn. More than I usually see. Maybe good news for the Gorge.
That sounds good for the gorge! I wonder if they are going to be able to get enough eggs to fully stock all the kokanee waters. Seems like a low number returning at Strawberry. It would be interesting to know what a “normal” return is. Hopefully more are still coming and it’s just a late year.
I was talking to a guy today he said the spawning numbers were way down pulse at FG. 2 year old numbers are down
so if he is right things don’t look to good.
I don’t fish the berry but maybe once a year, Saturday I had one hit my 3" maniac minnow! Pretty cool catch!
I stopped at the strawberry fish trap today. They had just finished stripping today’s run. It’s still going on but considerably much less than previous years. The officer that I spoke with said the estimate so far this year is about 1.2 million eggs.
Much less so far, but they are still getting fish each morning.
I hope my pictures will show the nice 4 lb. Males that were in the trap.
I told the officers "I hope they don’t plant in Jordanelle, or waste them in other places we can’t boat safely " just my opinion…
I see the live stream video of spawning kokanee is off line. Last time I viewed it there were few fish in the strawberry River.
Can anyone tell us if the river is getting fish??
It was a slow start, maybe we are in trouble this year. What are you seeing in the river now
?