A day fishing tiny mountain creeks and lake shorelines for aggressive, spawning kokanee salmon they turn bright red in the fall and chase lures aggressively. Location/conditions: - Mountain creeks and ...

Colorado has a fall tradition that still surprises newcomers: the state will hand you free salmon, no charge, straight from its hatcheries. Colorado Parks and Wildlife gives away kokanee salmon every ...

The kokanee in Bucks Creek are getting ready to spawn. They are now congregating below the gravel riffles where they were born a few years ago. The water temperatures in the creek are an ideal 45 to ...

Spawning Kokanee salmon swim through a raceway at the Roaring Judy Fish Hatchery near Gunnison, Colorado, on Oct. 2, 2025. (Dean Krakel, Special to The Colorado Sun) The line forms on the left for ...

After a summer of heat and drought, cooler temperatures returned to the Western Slope with the arrival of fall. It also signals the start of the kokanee salmon spawning season. Colorado Parks and ...

There is some good news and some not-so-good news when it comes to spawning Kokanee in the North Okanagan. The good news is, Kokanee are once again spawning in local creeks. The bad news is those ...