Salmon is delicious, but a good kokanee salmon dish begins with the preparation. A lot of salmon recipes, especially smoked kokanee recipes, begin with brining the fish. A brine is a salt and sugar combination that penetrates the flesh, enhances flavor, and alters the texture of the fish, generally making it cook and taste better….
Starvation reservoir has kokanee? Unfortunately, not for long. The state of Utah stocked kokanee in Starvation from 2016 to 2020, but haven’t attempted to stock them since. In speaking with state biologists, they just didn’t prove to be self sustaining enough. It’s likely that a few will live on for a few more years, but…
My wife was hesitant when I first told her I was making blackened smoked kokanee. This recipe takes a flavor profile a lot of people are familiar with on beef and applies it to kokanee salmon. The results are phenomenal. Blackened kokanee is a different flavor profile than most of the kokanee people make, and…
There are some lakes across the country that have no limit on kokanee salmon. You won’t find that in Utah, but Porcupine Reservoir has a kokanee limit 3 times greater than other locations in the state (limit of 12 kokanee at Porcupine). Porcupine Reservoir can provide some fast and fun kokanee salmon fishing. The latest…
In 2020 the Utah DWR stocked kokanee into Lost Creek Reservoir. Not as many as were stocked in Rockport Reservoir at that same time, but biologists are hopeful that they’ll be able to succeed in the reservoir. People can expect to have success in Lost Creek Reservoir kokanee fishing now, but it should continue to…
Kokanee salmon have a soft jaw, which makes fishing nets an absolute necessity if you’re looking to land one of the big ones. Try landing a big kokanee without a net, and its own body weight could cause the hook to rip through the jaw of the fish. If you want to land more kokanee…
Kokanee fishing has been growing in popularity in the USA, and that led the state of New York to try its hand at introducing Kokanee Salmon into more waters in the state. From 1996 to 2003, the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) introduced some limited numbers of kokanee to a dozen bodies of water…
This article should give you a complete guide to planer board fishing. From an introduction to beginners, how to rig a planer board, when you’d want to use one, to using planer boards for walleye, stripers, kokanee, and other salmon. You’ll be ready to reach out to the side with your trolling game and fish…
Moon Lake is a smaller lake located on the south slope of the High Uinta’s in Duchesne County, Utah. It’s a high mountain reservoir that was expanded by a dam on what was then the smaller Moon Lake. Moon Lake is a medium sized lake, and is one of the most overlooked kokanee spots in the lake. It’s out of…
I recently had a conversation with the Utah DWR about the kokanee fishing in Stateline Reservoir. The report from his is that they are numerous but small. In order to try to manage for that, they said, “We have started stocking some lake trout into Stateline (started in 2020 so they are not fully established) and are…
