Strawberry 5/8

[dubob]

I actually caught a kokanee on a 'j-plug' lure being trolled at 90 feet deep.  And I've been told by more than one old timer that when kokanee were fist introduced into Utah waters and before dodgers and squids were born that they caught them all the time on triple teasers & needlefish behind pop-gear.  Go figure.

I've caught them on triple teasers and needlefish, catching them on smaller spoons like that is nothing new but catching them on cranks, that is something you don't hear about much. Did you see this post on the Idaho board:
https://bigfishtackle.com/forum/showthre...id=1095311

Except for kokanee (sockeye), adult salmon are fish eaters and that is why the Idaho report was not surprising.  He was catching chinook (king) salmon, not kokanee (sockeye) salmon.  I've been pulling Rapalas on the surface off my planer boards at the Gorge for the past 3 years hoping to snag the bonus rainbow for my 4 fish limit.  Doesn't happen very often and I've never cuaght a kokanee on those Rapalas.  I have caught a couple off spoons fishing for lake trout and tha one off the J-plug.  That's it.  Catching a kokanee (sockeye) salmon off any kind of a crank bait or fish imatation bait is always going to be a rare thing.  IMHO.