flyfisherguy
5/14/2018 9:19:43 PMForgetting your downrigger is one thing, having it fall off your boat on the way to the lake is another! Had that happen to me a few years ago, had just bought a nice Scotty electric! :-( Oh well, glad to hear that you didn't have a total waste of a day, congrats on the good trout fishing!
Sideburns
5/15/2018 11:39:13 AMYou got me all excited with the 4 star kokanee report. I have fished the lake targeting kokanee dozens of times over the last few years with no kokanee to show for it. I dont think they are surviving after theyre stocked. The last one I have caught of any size was april 2016. The 2014 and 2015 seasons were hot, then 2016 season and on ... nothing. Good luck
robert53a
5/15/2018 2:46:45 PMI'm with you Sideburns. I long to catch kokanee in Meridian as I remember it 10 years ago. There is all ways hope it will come back.
Sideburns
5/15/2018 5:04:38 PMIm curious now. Did you fish the lake before and after 10 years ago, and did you notice a sudden decline in catches back then? I have only been fishing it since 2014.
robert53a
5/16/2018 3:10:59 PMI've been fishing this lake for kokanee since 2007. It produced kokanee on a regular basis until 2015, when we had that really hot summer. Since then the kokanee are sparse.
Fish Dawg
5/18/2018 12:31:29 AMMy observation too...good fishing until 2015 then nada the last few years. MeNwhile cormorant population on the lake appears to have quadrupled. Me thinks cormorants like Kokanee as much as I do and they are better at catching given that they make the effort daily!