East Coast Kokanee (Kokanee Across America)
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Few people know that Kokanee were once widely stocked across the eastern United States. For a time Kokanee fisheries thrived in states like New York, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and in several other eastern states. However, most of those Kokanee programs failed or collapsed over time due to invasive species or abandonment of Kokanee stocking. However, Connecticut has maintained its Kokanee fisheries since the 1940’s and they still persist to this day using local broodstock. Kokanee can be found in West Hill Pond in central Connecticut and at East Twin Lakes in the northwest corner of the lake. I fished West Hill Pond as the final stop on the Kokanee Across America project.
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I noticed that the last fish you caught in Connecticut is the same spot I catch my first fish almost every time I go out. When I see you fishing west hill it really makes me feel connected with your channel..thanks for fishing my state.
They were stacked right in that spot, larger fish too! A great Kokanee lake.
I’m so so happy you made your way to Connecticut! I live in CT and have asked so many fishermen how to approach Kokanee fishing here with no luck. I’ve been watching your videos for a couple years now and wondered how well your tactics transferred here. Glad to see they do! Can’t wait to try some things out!
I was just as curious as you! Had a great time.
I've followed the entire series closely learned alot and enjoyed seeing some new lakes and watching you catch some big ol fish, have a safe trip home, looking forward to kokanee across America part 2 someday as there's still a bunch of places to visit Congratulations
It's so cool that your proven techniques, that work so well here at home, worked just as well, there! You got to enjoy your two favorites, Kokanee and different birds! This has been a great series! I've enjoyed following your journey. Thank you sir!
Thanks for sharing the video!! I didn’t realize that West Hill Pond had Kokanee but my journey completely changed when I stumbled upon Weston A Prices’s book: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration and it saved my life in knowing what to eat for foods. It is the most influential,inspirational, informative read of my entire life. I could live anywhere in this world and hunt, trap, fish. It was a former Harvard Anthropology course book and it should be taught in all schools and colleges throughout the world. Anyways I started into getting heavily into mackerel and started back in 2000. In 2004 began fermenting the fish using raw organic cow milk kefir being a 50/50 mixture. I’m going to post a video on how I do that. For the past 5 years understood oily saltwater fish like mackerel,herring,sardines,anchovies,wild caught salmon can postpone hypothermia and can save your life. I go in the Penobscot River in wintertime and the winter of 2020-21 only missed one week. I eat like 2 oz of my fish and drink the kefir because the omega 3 oils are drawn out and nothing goes to waste. I eat the skin,bones,head but you have to take the gills out when doing this. You can also just eat the fish freshly caught raw. This is the identical way people in Alaska, Northern Canada eat sea mammals to protect against the cold. I avoid canned fish but that doesn’t mean they will not help you.
I eat my oily fish and move around or exercise a little bit and then after 5-10-20 min go in the ice water. I feel warm and it’s easy to do a 5-12 min dip. Current strength is dangerous though and you need to be mindful of this. I talk about it in my video when I go in the river when ambient air temperature is -26 F .
Quick experiment I did was avoid eating oily fish for two weeks to purge my body and went into a horse trough with ice water in March of Maine. Well the litmus test was to open and close my hands to see how quick they would get numb and slow down when I opened and closed my hands. It took like 3-4 min. So the following day I ingested my oily mackerel/ kefir and was easily able to open and close my hands for 12 min. !! That is a massive difference in being able to postpone hypothermia.
I’m also acquainted with the Wim Hof Method too and that is invaluable too when you do not have insulating properties of oily fish or where legal sea mammal consumption is allowed. He has a app called WHM = Wim Hof Method.
Now reverting back to East Twin Lakes that is crazy the sizes of Kokanee salmon were commonly running 18-20” sounds amazing and it must’ve been. Yeah the introduction of the other species of fish corrupted the sizes. You know on the West Twin Lakes side the largemouth bass being caught commonly weighed 7 lbs. Tell that friend who fished there for 40 years I recall seeing on the West Lake Side by that white mansion a state record size bass. I bet it was 14-15 lbs. That fish is long gone now but that is not to say that location is poor.
I want to go up to Alaska and get the salmon roe for brain health. That is healthier than the flesh and skin but the oils are super healthy for blood circulation. I’m uncertain if it pertains to all species of salmon but they can carry worms when eaten raw.
I cold smoke mackerel using yellow birch wood and it tastes like ham and the fish flesh texture resembles cheese. Unbelievable in taste and texture.
I will probably go to Pulaski New York in the Salmon River and get salmon roe there.
Sharing is caring so this was why I put the extra information. I came down with hypothermia and tell of my story when I was 24 yo. I’m 53 years young now!!
This whole series has shown me that kokanee are kokanee, no matter where they are found. This example just drives that message home. Thanks for sharing!
I agree. I had a few folks tell me dodgers don't work on that lake or they only want one color on that lake but my experiences demonstrated otherwise. Overwhelmingly the same setups and colors often proved effective across all bodies of water.
I live in CT and started fishing West Hill regularly in 2015 for kokanee. From then until 2019 all of the mature fish were between 15”-19” with my biggest being 21.25”. The numbers were a lot lower so you really had to work for them. Since then it’s been loads of small fish like what you caught and after doing some research it seems like the average size varies a lot year by year here. Hopefully this year it changes. I have pics I would post but I’m not sure how. Love your channel by the way!
Enjoyed your fishing excursions, tips, rigging, and insights … Learned some and reaffirmed some things I have done for kokanee. I too I’m a little sad to see it end - I had looked forward seeing what each trip would bring. Thanks for sharing your experiences and look forward to what’s next. Tight lines …
Glad to have helped support this. I still wear my hat with pride every time we go out!
Thank you. Hopefully it brings you good luck!
Great way to end the tour, can’t wait to see where you go next year.
"That's gotta be 12 1/2 inches." 🤣
Loved the series. Thanks so much.
Darn! Last show.
Hope to see you in B.C. next year!
Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your videos you’re the best. Could you possibly touch on the different strains of Kokanee the late spawning shore spawners from north Idaho with the lighter meat vs the early spawners ie Deadwood res. where IDFG gets its eggs for hatchery stock? Seems like the darker the meat the better the flavor. You may have already touched on the subject and I missed it. Anyway thanks again and keep up the good work.
Very cool to see you in my home state! Can't wait to give this technique a shot. Always wondered if your west coast tactics would work here. Glad you got into them!
Very cool series! Can't wait for more in the future.
First! Congratulations on a successful tour.
Nice work, love seeing other parts of the US kokanee fishing
Learning more and more, thanks for sharing tips, strategies, leader lengths, etc items used and more importantly the reason why.
Awesome content as always buddy!! I looked forward to every episode and I’ve appreciated living vicariously through you since I don’t get out to many other lakes besides my local lake!! Keep up the good work
Thanks Chad! You helped make it happen
Thanks for fishing when I can’t 🤣🤙🏾
How about a landlocked King Salmon tour?
The North Carolina kokanee population in Nantahala Lake is still there, and the state has begun supplemental stocking, so the only salmon in The South will be around for a while.
I know they've been working to restore that population but from what I'm hearing there isn't much of a fishery at this point.
@@spiltmilt I hope they get it going again. I want to be able to say I have caught salmon in The South.
@@spiltmilt I did some more research, and some idiot put blueback herring in the lake. Bluebacks are great for striper lakes, but Nantahala doesn't have stripers. I hope they don't find their way west.
Great series!! Looking forward to your next “project!” 🙂 (What net is that? Is it light weight? Do you like it?)
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cool to see it all works for the east coast fish as well. did you drive all the way out there? that's dedication man, appreciate your efforts for your audience!
I flew.
New to Kokanee fishing. When the the fish start the spawning cycle and start the change, if you catch one is the meat still as good to eat.
No it is not as good.
Thanks for the quick reply
Really fun series to watch! Looking forward to the future and a hopeful trip into Canada!
How did you get your kayaks over to the east coast? Did you drive all the way out there?
Old Town Canoe and Kayak helped provide me kayaks locally. Fortunately the owners of the those kayaks were in part inspired by my kayak layouts so it felt very much like fishing from my own kayaks at home.
I just tried fishing this lake two weeks ago! Landed 1 trout no kokanee unfortunately. I tried using a downrigger on an inflatable but haven't found a good way to mount it yet. Caught the trout on a clip on wight per your suggestions in previous videos. Also struggled to go slow enough with my motor. I moved to CT from CA last fall, and have been missing west coast salmon and living vicariously through your videos. I hope to get dialed in on west hill kokanee! Maybe I'll have to try to target them through the ice.
I was just telling my wife this would be a great ice fishing Kokanee lake. You might try a trolling sock on your inflatable to get the proper troll speeds.
@@spiltmilt I'll give that a try!
I tried at least a dozen times last winter at west hill for the kokanee with no luck. But limit out in my kyack almost every time. I was always the only guy trying to target kokanee on the hard water. We should hook up this winter. I would love to get frustrated with someone else.
I started fishing for Kokanee this year after watching your videos and finding out that we had Kokanee here in CT. There are like 3 Kokanee videos on TH-cam for west hill pond… this video just became the most authoritative guide to CT Kokanee on TH-cam.
We had a great time there and those fish, despite their small size, are very healthy and were absolutely delicious.
question Tyler... on another video you mentioned that you did not like to hold your fish in water with ice, but preferred ice alone. I noticed that on the first day you had them in ice/water. Have you changed your method?
No it was just really hot and the coolers were so small it melted quickly. I couldn't get my good catch bags on the airplane. I think for short duration it doesn't have an effect but don't let them sit in the slush all day.
thanks Tyler
Will you do a video on hoochie vs hoochie + spinner blade? What is your preference?
Generally prefer plain hoochies.
Did you notice a taste difference when compared to the west coast Kokanee?
Nope tasted the same
Hey buddy, I live on wallowa lake, been doing good currently the big boys are staged to head up stream and spawn. After the spawn can I continue to troll for them in November and December?
Yes you'll just be targeting the next year's fish.
2 quick questions: until I get a fish finder should I, as a rule, just start Kokanee fishing trips by aiming for the depth where the water is roughly 54 degrees and adjust from there by 10 feet increments till I find em? Also, is there another temp depth sensor that you would recommend that’s less expensive than the $180 Fishhawk?
I've seen guys using simple thermometers and drop them down and leave them for a couple minutes and bring them back quickly. Might work.
All things being equal, what advantage does a downrigger have vs the Snap weight system, if they were both at the exact same depth if any advantage? Is the biggest advantage of a downrigger being able to target a certain depth more accurately? Cheers.
Yes a downriggers gives you precision but the snap weights will hunt across a variety of depths better. As you can see from the video sometimes one outperforms the other.
@@spiltmilt Good point about the Snape weight hunting different depths. Thanks again for all the help/work you put into your videos
They’ve fill the Great Lakes with NW kings and coho. Plus steelhead- might be better steelhead fishing there than in WA.
Yup most of those are Skamania stock right from the Columbia tribs. Steelhead fishing is definitely better in the Great Lakes now than here.
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Why is that?
Spilt Milt Productions I find it it to have more good quality kernels. Less small mashed pieces. Less expensive also. Select is the brand I think. Try it out some time.
I will.