South Platte River Kokanee Fishing

Took the boys out to the Dream Stream looking for Kokes, with the reports Ive been hearing about for the past week I thought they’d be all the way up to the old wood bridge by this weekend… so thats where we started, but they hadnt moved up that far yet.  So after a few hours horsing around in that stretch of water all we had were a few small bows the boys caught on spinners.  We then headed back down to the lower parking lot, on the way back to the jeep I started getting a really bad headache.  We hit the lower holes for a little while and started seeing kokes in small groups holding above the bridge holes, in current.  Fished for about an hour maybe two more with my head pounding between the 3 of us we got 20 kokes… Last year I’d call that a slow day for one person, those gill lice made a big difference.  We went back down the the bridge hole looking to try and get a brown for the day when Skylar caught the biggest koke of the day a 20 inch male that hit his tube almost pulled him in off the rocks, lol… the tube had red tips on the tentacles which might caused the strike.  We left shortly after that because of my head, but it was a good day… especially getting Skylar his first ever kokanee and a master angler one as well.

Couple pictures:
Bout the average sized one this year, much smaller then last 2 years.

Cody with his big female:

Skylar’s big one:

If interested in how to catch Kokanee Salmon or want pointers check out my Article on fishing the kokanee run in Colorado here:
How to Fish the Kokanee Spawn on the Dream Streaml It was written mostly for the Kokanee spawning run up the South Platte River in South Park noted as the Dream Stream, but I’ve used the same techniques on all the salmon runs in Colorado.