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[hohartmann]

I have a cabin in osoyoos on the lake and all last summer there were dead kokanee washing up on the beach sometimes ten a day. Now knowing that there is alot of fish im wondering where abouts to fish for them and what to use???    Any tips would be helpful thxs

[vancook]

I didn't even know there was Kokanee in Osoyoos lake. I used to camp on the lake every summer for years and years...I remember lots of catfish

[kaolinite]

iv hooked into a few bass and carp. Im sure it has some trout .. maybe they were trout

[Banny]

Osoyoos lake has a pretty diverse range of fish, I have personally caught all of these species when we used to camp on the American side

Kokanee
Rainbow Trout
Brown Bullhead
Northern Pikeminnow
Largemouth Bass
Smallmouth bass
Pumpkinseed sunfish
Black Crappie
Yellow Perch
Common Carp

There are also sockeye salmon, whitefish,  peamouth chub, and suckers but I have not caught them

[vancook]

I've caught white fish in the canal on the very north tip of the, highway heading to Oliver

[hohartmann]

ya we tried that canal last year but no luck. we caught lots of carp last year too.

[hohartmann]

they were defenitley kokanee and everyone i talked to up there thought so too. Just there was so many on the beach i was amazed. What is best to use for kokanee and would i have a better chance fishin from the shore or goin out in a boat??

[UFC]

I haven't fished that lake in around 10 years, but last time I went there were lots of kokanee. I caught quite a few on regular flies you'd use for rainbows (I believe we used spratlys). I'm sure there are better flies for kokanee. Small red/pink flies work in some of the local lakes, so they may be fine up there too.
Either way, a boat is better. We caught ours trolling the flies about 100 feet off one of the camping beaches.

[skaha]

--kokanee are sensitive to water temp and oxygen levels. warm temp and algae blooms in osoyoos can be toxic.
--check out www.fishwithgary.com for good over view of the art and science.... especially for trolling of kokanee.
--Rod's vid descriptions on this site great advice for casting and drop shot techniques.
--kokanee tend to school so if school goes through low oxygen or toxic water they all get nuked...
--targeting-- larger kokanee tend to hang out below or near larger schools so if you get into school of smaller fish try dropping line deeper same presentation...because of the schooling bite is on and off as school moves.. fast action when you hit them.

--will be fishing osoyoos may long weekend and week but mainly casting for bass... if colder weather will troll for other species. I never really thought to target kokanee there as usually fish in warmer weather.


--early season is prime on Skaha so I expect downstream at osoyoos to be good now as well.

[hohartmann]

Thankyou very much skaha and UFC i will defenitley try some of the suggestions.

[Nutterbug]

Osoyoos lake has a pretty diverse range of fish, I have personally caught all of these species when we used to camp on the American side

Kokanee
Rainbow Trout
Brown Bullhead
Northern Pikeminnow
Largemouth Bass
Smallmouth bass
Pumpkinseed sunfish
Black Crappie
Yellow Perch
Common Carp

There are also sockeye salmon, whitefish,  peamouth chub, and suckers but I have not caught them

Aren't they the same thing, or do sea run sockeyes make it that far?

[StillAqua]

Aren't they the same thing, or do sea run sockeyes make it that far?

There's a decent population of sea run sockeye that make it to Osoyoos to spawn (Skaha too now), passing 8 or 9 dmas up the Columbia. Sockeye and Kokanee (the land locked version of sockeye) are the same species but Kokanee are a different subspecies and with a different life history.