Kokanee in PA

[klingon]

If I remember correctly, the pa fish comm maintained a fishable population of kokanee at upper woods pond, in the poconos, in the late 1960's.

I was wondering if there is any kokanee fishing in pa today?

 

[Chaz]

Probably not, a bunch of bucket biologists started putting all kinds of fish in the pond and PFBC eventually tried to kill the pond and return it to a trout pong, which it was before anyone had the bright idea to put in rubber fish. It failed, there are still WW fish in it along with rubber trout maybe a few wild brookies, and I've heard that some salmon survived, but I've never caught any. Kokone don't grow very big in PA so I wouldn't bother going there to target them, but it would be neat to catch one.

 

[krayfish]

I thought they were stocked in Harvey's Lake not too long ago.

 

[Tups]

Fished upper woods pond abt 15 years ago for kokanee. Pafc may have been still stocking them at the time. We caught more than a dozen trolling small spoons. None more than 9 inches. Haven't been back since.

 

[tomgamber]

We had those in Idaho and they weren't; much bigger there either. a 12-14 inch was considered big. And unless it was spawning time they just looked a lot like your normal wild rainbow. But trolling wet flies from a canoe with an electric motor was deadly.