More and more Muskies!

[Mildog]

I caught a 19 “ cutt yesterday. Only caught a couple splake but they have planted hundreds of thousand in Jordanelle. I think they hang out deeper than most anglers fish. I have caught lots of wipers in years past but none in the last couple years. The musky I caught was in downrigger at 30 feet ole ty deep to eat kokes. Rainbows are planted at near 8” to avoid them being eaten. Kokes have to be planted closer to 3 inches , those and any that might be spawned in the river , have to face many predators to survive. Adding more predators seems like it would hurt the Koke population. Musky will eat anything smaller than themselves. Perch numbers are down , smallmouth are smaller than they used to be? Maybe not enough food? Who knows. I know Koke fishing was much better a few years ago
And increase in stocking splakes, cutts, wipers, musky in the past and know. Not sure if it correlates or maybe less kokes stocked as well? Will have to go back and look at the stocking reports. The rainbows are doing great. But I remember division mentioning having to plant rainbows larger that they used to to increase survival. don’t have that option with kokes they have to be stocked out of hatchery much smaller. Time will tell , may have to dust off my Mudky gear, I have a bunch of gear I may have to get back in action!