Kokanee salmon are a highly sought-after fish in Utah reservoirs. These fish are not that difficult to catch when one follows a few steps for locating and getting lures down to them.

The main catch of the season is kokanee salmon. These land-locked sockeye salmon are not native to New Mexico, but large schools of the fish gather to spawn and die in the cold waters of northern ...

The fish are gaining weight rapidly with the 14-to-16-inchers becoming deep and wide. The 2023 stocked kokanee are just three months away from spawning and then dying.

Trout fishing is slow but kokanee are becoming more active as they prepare for their annual spawning run up the Williams Fork River. The salmon are 22-28 feet deep, hitting on red Arnies ...

Kokanee salmon are a very important popular part of cold water fisheries in Colorado. Saturday, while I was out of town, Ronny Castiglioni filled in for me on Terry Wickstrom Outdoors on 104.3 The ...

A persistent breeze off the chilled waters of the Lake Nighthorse reservoir made for contemptibly cold conditions on the small floating platform where Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologist Jim ...

The irony is that the rise in popularity of kokanee fishing has come as a result of the decline in salmon populations. At Green Peter, Moritz and Halleck worry neither might ultimately survive.

They provide some of the best kokanee salmon fishing the state has to offer as the 2019 season gets underway. RELATED: Idaho Fish and Game will dump 12K rainbow trout into Fernan Lake this month.

Idaho Fish and Game has worked for years to balance the kokanee salmon and Mackinaw trout populations. Fishing columnist Jordan Rodriguez said it’s paying off.

In the fish-eat-fish world of Blue Mesa Reservoir, kokanee salmon are near the bottom of the totem pole. So low, their numbers have been taking a nose dive, to the dismay of the reservoir’s ...

It's snagging season: Kokanee salmon are the only fish that can legally be snagged in NM. By Carl Knauf / Journal Staff Writer; Oct 19, 2022 Oct 19, 2022 Updated Jun 17, 2025; ...