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Nice report Dave. The fish look like they are on the small size for Berry this year.

The Fish Whisperer!

Saweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Sounds like it's on!!!

Ice out is happening at Ririe! There is open water now and we should be fishing within a week. Hope there are some Kokes left out there!

Gene, You make some great points. Prepare your boat before you get in line to launch. I outfit my boat a long ways from anywhere boats park or launch. Then, take care of your business in a courteous fashion by launching the boat and moving it as far out on the dock as possible to wait for your...

Doing it that way causes the bones to start loosening from the flesh and creates a situation similar to belly burn. I wouldn't reintroduce them to lake water for any reason. They need to be kept dry cold until filleting.

I don't see to many fishermen and women holding up the show. Most of it is recreational boaters and they haven't a clue for the most part. I don't let their antics bother me. I go to the lake to be happy. Allowing other people under your skin may be a sign it's too thin. As far as beaching my...

Bleeding the fish out is a great start but you don't want to reintroduce the fish to water after it's died. Put a plastic bag in your ice chest and keep your kokes from floating around in the water. The flesh will fare much better. I fillet the fish and bag it without it ever touching water again.

Late summer would work. They could move the water in Ririe and hold the water in Palisades. It all goes the same place.

They can't poison it at full pool. At zero pool it's a no brainer. Who ever you spoke to must not be a biologist familiar with the process. As for opening the South End in the winter. They have a lot of barriers to jump. The area is closed quite a ways from the water so they would have to get...

The problem is a good size Walleye such as I've seen pics of coming out of Ririe can each eat 3 or 4 baby Kokanee a day. If you do the math that will always be a problem and becomes more of a problem as they begin to completely wipe out the perch and baby bass. Ririe doesn't have the biomass to...

Yeah, they are spring spawners so any time late summer would work.

I'm thinking sooner rather than later. Since it's just water storage they could run it down in the fall to zero pool and poison it before spring time came. The water belongs to the farmers so that could be held for storage in American Falls. Bucket Biologists are the saddest people I know...

I'm not sure what kind of soft baits they are using. To further the report, the ice fishing guys are now reporting that the perch seem to be fewer in number and very hard to find as well.

The bass guys are picking them up throwing drop shots along the rocky drop offs.

No one said they are getting them all. Still, reports are, and I have friends that are out there every day, that they figure there are maybe only one or two large schools this year in the ice fishing area. Limits are few and far between. Skunks fairly common. These guys never used to leave the...

Can't wait to hear how the test runs go!

A lot of people reporting the same. Very few Kokes being caught. Looks like the Walleyes have finally come home to roost.

The Kokanee are on the hard deck at Ririe! Who's fishing?

Sounds like a good recipe Dave. How did you come upon that idea?