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Was fishing Siltcoos this morning with Andy (thuggin4life), and then this afternoon when Siltcoos decided to mirror the big pond that is the Pacific, we migrated to Munsel for some trout fishing, but he hooked up with a very, very small Kokanee, about 5 inches. Was very clearly a Kokanee and not a trout or a chinook. I did not know they were in any of the small coastal lakes, especially since there is no inlet/outlet. My guess is that someone (perhaps a property owner there) caught them elsewhere and released them there. I may be wrong. Has anyone else heard of Kokes in the coastal lakes?
These fish were a bit small to have been returning from sea. The bigest one I got was like 5 inches max and the smaller one was no bigger than 3 inches. Maybe they were on there way out. But the looked like kokes to me. never got one but they didn't quite look like the land lacked chinook I am used to getting.
Really, reallly, reallllllllllly wish we had got pictures of them. No doubt, I'd bet my life on it, that these were ID'd as Kokanee. I fish for kokes all summer long. They were definitely not salmon smolt. They completely lacked spots. I emailed ODFW for information on it, but they never emailed me back.
Kokanee are Sockeye salmon. Is there a river into the lake for sockeye to spawn?
Kokanee are Sockeye salmon. Is there a river into the lake for sockeye to spawn?
Nope. There isn't. And to my knowledge, I'm pretty sure there isn't an outlet. I've never seen it when fishing there, and if you look at the map munsel lake - Google Maps I see none either.
The whole deal is wierd.
Hmm I don't know about that. But I know they were kokes. I just want to know how they got there and why I never caught any before this summer, when I've been fishing there since I was a little kid.