Kokanee Record (WYO)

[PACKFAN]

Someone may have posted earlier about the WY. state record for kokanee being broken earlier this month at Flaming Gorge by an angler from Colorado. The fish weighed 6.31 lbs. and was 25.25 inches. Supposedly caught near Buckboard. Congrats to the lucky angler.
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New State Record Kokanee Caught out of Flaming Gorge
[ul][li]by [url "http://sweetwaternow.com/author/charryman/"]News Desk[/url][/li] [li] June 15, 2015 at 1:44 pm [/li][/ul]


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[PACKFAN]

For some reason I couldn't pull that site up, the info I got came from the home page of the WY. F&G site. I see the kokanee that Todd Chikaraishi harvested from Strawberry in 1995 still holds the UT. record. It weighed an even 6 lbs. I had met Todd back in the mid 90's when I guided him on several elk hunts at DL&L. He was a dentist from the SLC area and loved to fish bass and walleye as well.
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[WiperMac]

Copy and past from the Wyoming Game and Fish website:


Wyoming’s kokanee salmon record, which has stood since 2009 was broken earlier this month thanks to the efforts of Lyons, Colorado angler George Sharman. Sharman caught a 6.31 pound kokanee while fishing at Flaming Gorge Reservoir.

Sharman’s fish was 25.25 inches long and had a girth of 14 inches. It bested the previous state record caught in 2009 also out of Flaming Gorge by a little less than an ounce. Coincidentally, the previous record was caught six years ago, also in June.

Sharman, who fishes Flaming Gorge once a year, said he was fishing primarily for kokanee just outside Buckboard Marina. Fishing had been fairly quiet and earlier that day their party had boated one rainbow and a smaller kokanee. He was fishing at a depth of around 30 feet when the record fish took his chartreuse Rocky Mountain Assassin lure. Sharman knew he had a big fish, but after checking the Game and Fish website’s State Record Fish listing on his phone and weighing the fish on a portable scale in the boat, he knew he had a chance at the state record. His record was later confirmed that day on a certified scale at Buckboard Marina.

Kokanee are found in a number of waters in Wyoming and other states. The world record weighing 9 pounds 10 ounces was caught in Oregon in 2010.

A complete listing of Wyoming state record fish is on the Game and Fish website [url "https://wgfd.wyo.gov/web2011/fishing-1000210.aspx"]wgfd.wyo.gov[/url].

(Contact: Al Langston, (307) 777-4540)
(photo available upon request)
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