“We saw hundreds of red Kokanee trying to spawn in the Ririe Reservoir up near the Narrows,” explained an excited fisherman as they came off the water last Saturday. “We tried to catch them, but they would not hit anything that we tried, but we had great luck with trout, perch and bass around the kokes.”

As they were pulling their boat out of the water, I hooked a bright red male kokanee near the dock at the Juniper Boat Ramp.

It wiggled off before I could land it, but the next one was not so lucky; I landed it.

I could barely see the ghostly shadows of the green-colored females as they would swim excitedly in the shallows with an occasional bright red male with them.

The females would ignore my offering while the males would attack the lure, probably protecting the redds that they wer

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