My dad and I fished Meridian today from about noon till 4pm. We trolled spoons, spinners, hoochies and rapalas with and without dodgers with nothing but one "possible" bite. As usual I chased fish finder marks with a downrigger and a long lined surface rod and my dad ran a pinch weight. Not much for surface activity besides the diving cormorants. I searched and searched but didn't see anything on the finder that looked like schooled kokanee. We made one complete lap and ran up and down the middle of the lake, circling back on any good looking fish marks. There were some scattered marks on the sonar near or below the slight thermocline at 20-30ft, and in 25ft of water suspended off the bottom. Water clarity seemed good, but with occasional weed snags. The weather was beautiful, and the surface temp ranged from 48 at the south end and 46 at the north end. I try not to get too excited until the surface temp gets up close to 52 degrees, was just being hopeful of finding some sign of the mysterious disappearing Lake Meridian kokanee.

flyfisherguy

3/17/2019 8:54:38 AM

Thanks for the report. Like you, I keep hoping to see a return of the Meridian kokes, but it seems for the past 3 or 4 years it's been nothing but a disappointment. Maybe this will be the year, let's hope so!

Fish Dawg

3/17/2019 10:13:17 AM

Thanks for the report. May swing through there to run the motors after I finish my PM today.

Why2Fish

3/17/2019 10:55:41 AM

If plant records are correct, there was not a kok plant in 2016 (now 4yr fish). Plants in 2017 (nown3yr old fish) amounted to only 60k.

flyfisherguy

3/17/2019 8:24:37 PM

Yup, and only 59,990 of those were eaten by cormorants so that still leaves us with 10 of those babies! :P

Sideburns

3/18/2019 12:28:28 AM

50000 were part of the stocking plan for 2016. I am curious though if they are actually getting stocked at all lately.

nerka nailer

3/23/2019 6:03:01 PM

I wonder the same thing! I had the same luck out there. I also have had zero luck on Ward lake the past 2 years for kok's. Kinds of makes you wonder

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