07-07-2021, 04:04 PM
(07-07-2021, 04:26 AM)Mildog Wrote: It is very good to hear of more success on kokes at Jordy. It appears that there are far fewer and much more localized. It has been much tougher to catch them this year compared to the last 3 for sure. A buddy I fish with tried several tried and true spots that produced in past years with no luck a few days back.
He finally located an area where some kokes were willing to play and boated 6 mostly in the 15 to 16 inch range not fast but managed to get some.
So it seems there are still some that have survived all the toothy critters in there, but all the predators seem to be having an impact on the numbers of kokes.
The recent reports are encouraging. I want to check out the spawning run this fall to see how it compares to past years, when I have checked the river.
I totally agree with that view, far fewer than two years ago. As soon as we caught one, we would swing back around and try and pick up another one, only once did we get two within minutes of the other on a single turn and they turned out to be two of the smaller kokes of the day. If the predators are indeed having that big of an impact on the kokes there, it makes me wonder if it would help if the DWR increased their koke stocking numbers or simply stop the stocking or at least decrease the numbers of the predators they stock every year.
