Searching for the Kokanee Salmon Run at Spinney Mountain Ranch

Wanted to go up and check on the Dream Stream to see the status of the kokanee spawn. Well the kokanee havent started running up the river yet… the DOW havent even put up nets this year as they were expecting a weak run and had more then enough eggs from the other runs.

We started at the first hole as always and after a little bit of fishing and the parking lot filling up and only one bite we thought it was time to start walking down stream to look for kokes. After walking and checking the usual deep holes all the way down past the 2nd fence we decided to start working back. Cody had another make up baseball game today so it was going to be a fast day on the water anyways. While working our way back I spotted a decent fish sitting in one of the deeper bends (theres always a fish there) I put the san juan worm past him and it was fish on.
It was a nice enough cutbow, especially for the day.

The kids did great with a bunch of small rainbows, not exactly what we were looking for… didnt find the browns or the kokes. Will try again in a couple weeks.

If interested in fly fishing the South Platte River kokanee salmon run at Spinney Mountain Ranch or any kokanee run in Colorado read this article: How to Fish the Kokanee Spawn on the Dream Stream