Wickiup Reservoir Reports 2002

Fished Wickiup Thursday afternoon thru Monday morning this weekend with very limited success. We picked up one fish Thursday afternoon, two fish Friday, three fish Saturday. Most every day the wind picked up about 2pm and put an end to the fishing for the day for us. The fish were a little more cooperative in biting than our landing results indicate. We landed very few of the ones that bit in those 1st three days. Sunday we finally decided to use hooks instead of just tying the bait on and managed 15 fish for the day ....LOL   14 Kokanee and a bonus of a 27" -8lb brown that bit when I was making a turn and the inside rods trolling gear hit the bottom.

Thinking that the fishing was finally gonna take off we had high hopes for Monday morning and  proceeded to have 11 fish on of which we landed 3. These fish were all scrappy devils and one was so scrappy he made a miraculous escape as I tried to put him in the fish bucket. Yep, about a 4 ft leap across the boat onto the gunnels and back into the lake with me trying to re-grab him the whole way..... Maybe we just weren't suppose to have a good trip......LOL

There is good news to this report however, the fish you catch are beauties, fat n sassy with the smallest fish we landed going 14 1/2" and most all others going 15 1/4" to 16 1/2" ... Definitely worth pursuing even if the
numbers are down this year. We never did mark more than 5 fish on the FF at once and most of the time we
marked singles if any at all.

Here's a link to a picture showing our catch from Sunday ....

This report submitted by DJ

May 9, 2002

Went to Wickiup on Thursday and stayed till Sunday. The weather was good Thursday, sunny but cool, snowed Friday morning and then the wind really kicked up, Saturday and Sunday were great. Fishing was slow, I averaged 3 fish a day. The size made up for the lack of fish. The smallest Kokanee was 14", the largest was 16 1/2" with most of them 15". They were wide and thick. Was fishing with the fly rod, so it was a lot of action when you got one on. Was using wedding ring dogger combo. Finder saw lots of fish, they were just not biting very good.
 

This report submitted by Gary

April 27, 2002

Saturday I was on the water around 5:45  and thought I would head to the dam with the 50 other boats and fish for browns for the first time.  Had one good take that did not stick but left teeth marks on my Rapela.  Tried
trolling for Kokanee in the Davis arm for about 2 hours and had two fish on and long line released those.  Headed over to Crane after than around 12:00. Trolled all over the place until 6 pm and had one hard strike that came off
too.  It got windy and did not see much action so headed home.

Sunday back on the water at Wickiup at 5:30 and headed straight to a spot I had eyed the day before.  15 minutes later I had first blood on my new boat: a 28 inch 8 lb brown.   Fished for Kokanee for three hours down by the dam and in the Davis arm and caught 3 nice fat fish trolling: 14, 14.5 and 15 inches.  These were some of the hardest fighting Kokanee I have caught.  I had several that jump so hard and high that my dodger came out of the water. Because of loosing the two the day before, I free-spooled using my thumb when these fish ran.  That worked very well.  I caught the fish at 20 feet using either an Apex or a R & K diamond blade spinner.  Headed home at noon. I did not mark many fish, or see many taken, so it may be the Kokanee population is down this year.

This report submitted by Brian

The Kokanee Page is proudly hosted by the Coast Angler Group including:
Fishing B.C. :: Fishing in Canada :: Sturgeon Fishing :: Salmon Recipes