Kokanee Salmon Colorado. And while there are closer places to find salmon fishing from the population centers along colorado s front range including lake granby williams fork reservoir spinney mountain reservoir wolford mountain reservoir and green mountain reservoir and the surrounding rivers the epicenter of the kokanee community hands down remains. Colorado kokanee salmon regulations and give aways.
Colorado kokanee salmon regulations and give aways. Kokanee land locked pacific sockeye salmon are suited to the large fluctuating mountain reservoirs of colorado. Therefore the point of snagging this kind of salmon is to catch it.
These silver fish with black spots on the upper half of their bodies can be found swimming in compact schools feeding on zooplankton a food source unaffected by the drawing down of reservoirs.
If you want to catch kokanee salmon in colorado you just need to know where to look. Snagging of kokanee salmon is permitted september 1 through december 31 except snagging is prohibited in columbine bay from the inlet of twin creek upstream. It has maintained a solid population for over 50 years in about 25 locations in colorado. The kokanee salmon oncorhynchus nerka also known as the kokanee trout little redfish silver trout kikanning kennerly s salmon kennerly s trout or walla is the non anadromous form of the sockeye salmon meaning that they do not migrate to the sea instead living out their entire lives in freshwater.
