E. WA Kokanee fishing

[Brisco]

Question for you all...

Due to the closest Kokanee Lake to Spokane, Chapman Lake, being closed yet AGAIN this year... GRRRR.... does anyone know of any other nearby WA lakes w/ good Kokanee opportunity? I have fished the heck out of Loon Lake the past 2 years because of Chapman's closure and I'm getting bored of it.

I started looking through the reg books looking for anything in E WA with a Kokanee limit listed. Horseshoe lake is not a whole lot further North than Loon. Be careful if you research as there are two Horseshoe Lakes in WA. I'm talking about the one in Pend Oreille county. Anyone know anything about it or anywhere else in the area?

 

[booboo98498]

I live in Lakewood, south of Tacoma, but looked at the book and have driven to Bumping Lake. Don't know how close that is to Spokane, but the limit on kokes there is 16 a day. I have never fished there, just looked around and went home. Awesome area, though.

 

[Brisco]

Bumping Lake would be quite a drive for a day trip. Probably at least 3-4 hours each way. 16 limit is nice though. Probably good for me for a weekend trip but I was looking for something a little closer that I could hit more often.

 

[Smalma]

Brisco -
You could do worst than starting your search from the list of lakes under the catergory for Washington kokanee reports.

One lake there that jumps out to fit your criteria would be Deer Lake - just a few miles from Loon.

Another resource can be found at -

http://wdfw/.wa/gov/publications/01375/wdfw01375.pdf

Curt

 

[Kokanee Kid]

I'd suggest looking at this for kokanee fry stocking:

http://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/01376/wdfw01376.pdf

 

[smokin' Kokes]

call or email Tim Peone, Spokane Tribal Fish Hatchery. they're running a large kokanee hatchery planting fish in your area. Spokane River, Lk Roosevelt etc.

Hatchery
258-7297 Tim Peone manager
[email protected]

The tribal hatchery is working closely with WDFW and their koke program.

http://www.spokanetribe.com/dnr-hatchery

The overall goal of the hatchery is to aid in the restoration and enhancement of the Lake Roosevelt fisheries. The primary objective is to produce kokanee salmon and rainbow trout to create and sustain harvestable fisheries in this project area that includes waters within the boundaries of the Spokane Indian Reservation. To accomplish this, the hatchery produces up to 4.3 million kokanee salmon and 750,000 rainbow trout annually for release.


The bonus of fishing the Spokane arm or Lk Roosevelt is I get an occasional nice fat walleye or big rainbow trolling for kokes. Get bored, I go chase the smallmouth for a break

Last time I was by Loon Lk, it looks saturated with water front homes, can't be quality koke water any longer. All that insecticide and herbicide spray kills kokes food source.