HOOKED ON KOKANEE
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Wickiup Reservoir • Open Apr 22 - Oct 31. • 5 kokanee per day in addition to daily trout limit. No size limits. REDUCED TO 5 KOKES PER DAY????? WHAT HAPPENED??
Wickiup Reservoir
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chukardave1
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Still a few around
This board is really dead for Oregon reports hoping to spark it a bit. Two hour fish this morning. No monsters but a really nice grade of fish. Orange PPT hootchies and orange/gold teardrops were hot. Lake is dropping fast and fish are being forced from the shallows back into the channels.
This board is really dead for Oregon reports hoping to spark it a bit. Two hour fish this morning. No monsters but a really nice grade of fish. Orange PPT hootchies and orange/gold teardrops were hot. Lake is dropping fast and fish are being forced from the shallows back into the channels.
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What an impressive load of fish! I am really curious as to how you find the eating quality of those fish. In the past due to the higher water temps and the shallow nature of the lake ( I think ), the fish have had a very unpleasant " muddy" taste after the fist 4-6 weeks of the season. Have you ever experienced that? If you have, is there any thing you do to remedy it ( like soak in milk etc. )? You are certainly the pro on that lake. Congrats.
chukardave1
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Fish taste terrible, I wouldn't recommend anyone trying to catch these fish this time of year. 101ok101 You need to bleed them and then right into an ice bath/salt slurry, inside a plastic bag so they are not actually in the water. This basically starts to freeze the fish. I have eaten them off the BBQ well into Aug using this method. 98% of the fish we catch are headed to the smoker. I know some folks have a more delicate palette than I do.
