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Alouette Lake March 23, 2017
wildmanyeah:
Went out to Alouette lake to test out a few things on the boat before we start our summer saltwater fishing.
Fished the Narrows for a few hours with a Dick Nite, wedding band with worm. Surface water temperature was 4.3C and there was a thermocline at the 20 feet mark on the sounder.
Fished from 50-surface absolutely no bites no surface action and barely saw much on the sounder.
Picked up the gear and headed over across from the boat launch to try to get some Kokanee. Apex,hoochie, wedding band and worm and again nadda.
Fish must be pretty dormant right now, Kokanee seem to bit better when water temps around 10C
Anyways off the van harbor or Bowen next.
firstlight:
Thanks for the report.
Was wondering how it is up there.
Seams to have tapered off for Kokanee the last 5 years or so.
wildmanyeah:
--- Quote from: firstlight on March 29, 2017, 09:58:06 AM ---Thanks for the report.
Was wondering how it is up there.
Seams to have tapered off for Kokanee the last 5 years or so.
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7-10 years ago the alouette river management society and BC Hydro started to release the Kokanee smolts from the lake. Since then they have only managed to have a few sockeye return each year to the Dam. Downfall is it's totally decimated the local Kokanee population. They either need to build a fishway for the returning sockeye or stop the program all together so the Kokanee stocks recover.
http://www.alouetteriver.org/current-sockeye.html
http://www.alouetteriver.org/current-sockeye-update.html
typhoon:
--- Quote from: wildmanyeah on March 29, 2017, 10:08:19 AM ---7-10 years ago the alouette river management society and BC Hydro started to release the Kokanee smolts from the lake. Since then they have only managed to have a few sockeye return each year to the Dam. Downfall is it's totally decimated the local Kokanee population. They either need to build a fishway for the returning sockeye or stop the program all together so the Kokanee stocks recover.
http://www.alouetteriver.org/current-sockeye.html
http://www.alouetteriver.org/current-sockeye-update.html
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Why do you think this has decimated the local Kokanee population? I don't see anything in these articles that would justify that conclusion.
wildmanyeah:
--- Quote from: typhoon on March 29, 2017, 10:42:00 AM ---Why do you think this has decimated the local Kokanee population? I don't see anything in these articles that would justify that conclusion.
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"In 2007 there is estimated to be between 70,000 to 90,000 sockanee that traveled over the spillway on their way to the Pacific Ocean"
"The Rotary Trap was be installed at Mud Creek to count Kokanee “sockanee” escapement which preliminary numbers show to be approximately 70,000. "
These smolts would of otherwise stayed in the lake and grew up to be Kokanee. I don't have concrete evidence that releasing 70K smolts from the lake each year reduced the numbers of Kokanee in the lake but I know a few people in the area that worked with the project that contribute it to the reduced number of kokanee in the lake.
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