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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Rieber on March 25, 2005, 06:50:19 PM
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Went up to Kawkawa this afternoon. Fish were rising everywhere and on the water were all these empty insect husks from a hatch. We caught a few Kokanee trolling but not to many takers on worms. The fish were feeding heavily on these midges or chronomids I'm not sure which is the right term but all I know is the fish were plump full of them. Go figure - I didn't take a fly rod with me. The bugs were about a centimeter long. Dark brown/green with a long tapered tail. and a light brown/tan head. The fish were boiling everywhere.
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A lot of the boiling fish you saw would be residual coho. When Nick and I were up there on the first of March, the day the lake opened we caught close to 75 of them along with 3 or 4 cutthroat and 5 kokanee.
Once the kokanee start feeding on the plankton they become a nice size and you can have good luck catching them on krill. A good place to take the youngsters for some good action and some nice eating fish. ;D
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chris i am interested to know how big the residual coho are?
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chris i am interested to know how big the residual coho are?
When we caught them they were about 10 inches. I guess there is a lot unknown about them but Nick thinks they are 3 years old. I believe once the food decreases and as they do not feed on the plankton they body gets quite thin and they develope rather large heads. I am not a real authority on them but others may be able to enlighten us on these coho. Apparently they seem to be increasing in numbers the last couple of years.
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???What are residual Coho? ???
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???What are residual Coho? ???
Coho that spend their whole life cycle in fresh water. The same as Kokanee.