Kokanee at Ririe Reservoir

During the last week of the Christmas break, I was able to fish Ririe Reservoir several times for Kokanee salmon, trout and perch. When the kokes came through, the fishing was hot and then we would have to wait awhile for another school to come through. The kokanee would range in size from eight to fourteen inches. They were usually found between 10 to 20 feet under the ice. We caught the perch and trout right on the bottom at 50 feet.

I fished most days right next to a bunch of old retired men who fishes Ririe almost every day during the winter. We had a great time between the kokanee runs. Here one of them lands two kokanee at the same time by fishing with two hooks. I tried that, but spent too much time untangling my line.
Here my son-in-law lands a trout that he caught on Ririe. Right now it is very good fishing and the ice is about six inches deep. As you can see, it was snowing very heavy as we were fishing.

My Kokanee set-up is to have a flasher about eight inches above a jig tipped with bait. One man was doing very well catching perch by putting the jig tipped with bait within three inches of the flasher.