Crane Prairie Giant Kokanee (Kokanee Across America Bonus Episode)
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Crane Prairie Reservoir, located in central Oregon, is one of the premier trout fisheries in the Cascades. However, it is also home to one of the best remaining large Kokanee fisheries in Oregon. Finding Kokanee on this massive 5 square mile lake is the main challenge and with a maximum depth of 15' its all about putting in a lot of miles trolling shallow.
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I've been fishing Crane Prarie since I was a kid, ( early 70's). You should target some Crane Bow's. My personal best is 30 inches, 14 lbs back in 2004.
Spoke with several boats when I was there. The trout fishing was not good.
I wanted to thank you for these great videos. You inspired me to go back to kokanee fishing as I always found it very difficult. Consider a series on kokanee fishing in Canada next. BCs Caribou region from Kamloops north into the Interlakes area near 100 Mile House is ground zero for kokanee. Keep it up!!
That is already being considered!
The biggest Kokanee I ever saw was from Wickiup reservoir. An osprey drop it from the air because it was to big and it almost landed on a person. We put it back in the water. It looked like a salmon(5lbs), give or take.
I lived in Central Oregon for many years. I fished kok's at different lakes (like Paulina lake). I did a lot of mushroom picking in the background of your video. I'm surprised to see the lake so full, encouraging after last year.
Thank the Frog. Crane stays full, Wick goes dry.
Crane is lower reservoir. Top one is always the last to fill if ever...
@@joshuadavis8230 Wickiup is lower. Crane is the first Reservoir on the Descartes, straight from little Lava.
Another quality kokanee fishing video with lots of guidance thrown in...Nice...i do see you still forget occasionally to say Po-leena instead of Po-leyna...that is an Oregon lake after all
I can't help that everyone in Oregon says it wrong
@@spiltmilt LOL 🙂
Love that country over there! Missed the family trip to the cabin and Paulina this weekend but I’m not mad I missed the cold weather lol. Great job getting four!!
It was absolutely frigid in the morning and I drove through snow at the pass to get there. Crazy!
If you’re still in Central, OR try Kokanee fishing at East Lake. It’s a beautiful high elevation lake.
Awesome video! Craine Prairie Is one of my favorite lakes. It would be cool to see a Kokanee jigging video at Paulina/East lakes!!
Fun to see Crane in this series, generally see a number of 18-22" kokes come from there every year and they usually fight like a champ. I have caught about 20 kokes from there, 18 have come on pink (mostly hoochies) one on an orange spin-n-glo and one on a chartreuse wee tad. I run mostly slingblades so I end up hooking the line on my downrigger and dropping the ball 3-5 feet so the dodger stays under the surface ...I get some odd looks running riggers in 8-15 feet of water but it works.
Great content always learning something new. Love your approach. Very scientific. I’ll be at Shasta lake all next week putting what I have learned and the hoochies I made following your videos. Thanks
Good luck!
Those are some absolutely gorgeous fish! Fillet size; bake, fry or smoke. Wow!
Those are incredible spring kokanee! Thanks for sharing.
Ahhh good old crane great place bass are giant bows giant Kokanee giant awesome to know you come over and fish my backyard now just gotta go to lake billy chinook
I'm impressed by you, the lake & those big koks---- what a thrill! Can't go this year but next year I'll give Crane Prairie a try.
Great catches and some nice size Kokanee! We’re hoping to get up there soon!
It was actually refreshing to see you "struggle" haha. Beautiful scenery and nice video Tyler.
Hahaha 🤣
Struggle? LOL He did great. There’s not very many Kokes, let alone big ones in Crane. Day one outdoors hits Crane during the summer and catches them as well
Watching that last one jump, then run and jump again was fascinating - they are speed demons in the water!
They do fight extremely well
Love the scenery and the fishing. I’ve got to get me some of those flashers
Crazy that 2nd fish broke you off! This reservoir is one I haven't caught a kokanee at yet...
Beautiful place I caught Kokanee there really was a fun trip.
Wow! Incredible Trophy Kokes👍
On these larger kokes I like to up the size of the hook. I see you used #2 hooks, which is great. I'll typically run a #2 with a #1 trailer for big kokes.
They’re bending that rod pretty good. Beautiful fish
You look like me out there. Getting the hits but not keeping them on. As always thanks for sharing!
Nice. I have spent a fair amount of time up there and did not know about the giant kokanee. Cool. It is my understanding that Crane Prarie still has water in it because it is the home of a federally endangered frog. Wikiup is in real serious trouble. They have no environmental reason to keep water in it and by the middle of the summer it is almost empty.
Correct Wickiup was built to meet over extended water rights downstream. A lot of folks blame the frog but in reality that reservoir would have dried up in absence of allocating water for frog spawning anyways. The trout can survive the draw down but the Kokanee apparently did not.
Those are huge! Great job!
Thanks!
Thank you for your support Kevin. 🙌
Nice looking Kokanee. Can you talk about your fish finder ?
Its Humminbird Helix 7 with Side imaging/Down imaging and a GPS. What else would you like to know?
@@spiltmilt Thank You
Love your content just learning the ropes on kokanee fishing would you mind sharing the brand and style dodgers your fishing I own a skate board style and would like to try something new with the hoochie setups your using 👍
Everything I use in linked in the description
Thank you
Great video!!!!
Have you ever done a video on using spinning rods vs casting rods and centerpin vs levelwind vs spinning reels for trolling? Would love to see your thoughts on that subject :)
I've not. Mostly I just recommend line counters I don't see any advantage to other reels.
Love the video! Why continue to pedal when you have a fish on? Helps keep the tension on the fish?
Yes and I don’t want the other gear to snag up on the bottom
If you slow down too much, the other line can also wrap on itself, especially with a wiggle hoochie or any action lure with dodger,…giving you a nice tangle.
Great video Tyler!
I have a couple of questions about Kokanee. 1)Since Kokanee are landlocked Sockeye salmon, when they spawn do they die like regular Sockeye do? 2)Once a lake has a good year/crop of 15”+ fish, how long is it before there is another good year of equally sized fish?
1.) Yes they die just like searun fish
2.) Average size is dependent on a lot of factors so its impossible to say. Some lakes consistently produce large fish every year while others only cyclically or never do.
@@spiltmilt Thanks
How long ago were you at Crane? I live about 20 minutes from there, been out fishing cranebows. Wikiup is a dead lake now.
I was there about 10 days ago
Dang those were some chunkers
Nice
Kinda bummed you didn't hit Wickiup. Would love to know if it's even worth bothering after they have basically emptied the lake multiple times now.
I'd love to think it killed all the bass, too.....but fat chance, sadly.
At least the Brown's and Bow's have the river.
The Kokanee in Wickiup are gone
@@spiltmilt 😢 RIP Wickiup Rockets.
@@MrAcuta73 still killing the fish at twin lakes, no drunk boaters, no motors, and no harassment from the various law enforcement that are there to harass the vacationers that trash this area that I fish weekly almost year round if I could
Can you give me a simple description of your flat line setup? Biggest question I have is if you have any weight on your line if so how and where?
10 lb Maxima Ultragreen mainline to a bead chain 18" 10 lb Maxima ultragreen to duolock clipped to dodger 6-8" leader to lure. No weight
I’m curious… how much do you think the colors on the dodger matters when attracting fish? So do the spots on the wonder bread dodger work better than the blue shine from a moon jelly? Seems like the colors attract fisherman more and the fish care less. They just want something flashy that tells them food is near by. What do you think?
That's a really difficult question to answer. There is a lot of confirmation bias with fishing tackle especially with something like dodger color which can be confounded by lure color, bait scent, troll speed, troll direction, and so on. Do I think it matters at times? Yes but to what extent probably minimal. I really think dodger action and the base metal is more important than the tape.
@@spiltmilt thank you, that’s kind of what I was thinking as well.
And I was excited that I got 2 over 13 today. Those are pigs
How do you tell Kokanee, landlocked coho, and landlocked chinooks apart
Same as you would in the ocean
Whats your biggest kokanee? I landed a monster up in the Cariboo 2019.....22 3/4 inches and 7 3/4 pounds!!!
22.5” and 6.5 lbs
@@spiltmilt nice .....mine was a football.....
Where you adding bait to the hoochie?
Maggots on the hooks
Hey I’m headed out to crane prairie this weekend. Just want some pointers on what color lure and what kind of bait?
Gold and silver panther martins have served me well for cranebows and even some large mouth bass. Also a bright yellow rooster tail got me a nice cranebow
What month were you there? I hear they empty it out in the spring or summer?
May, It is an irrigation reservoir so the lake level will drop but they have kept it above 60% for the endangered spotted frogs.
Ya still going to hit Berryessa for those Giant’s ??
No I went to Whiskeytown instead
Hopefully next year if you hit the road again… Awesome Lake No Doubt
any suggestions for fishing for kokanee at Crane Prairie Reservoir now?
This is not the correct time of year
@@spiltmilt Thank you, that explains why i can't catch no kokanee at paulina lake for the past 4 trips.
You should target flaming gorge and strawberry reservoir utah
That’s the plan
@@spiltmilt when your in Utah hit me up. That would be so cool. I’m born and raised in Utah.
Don't forget Jordan Elle and The Pig.
@@spiltmilt you going to hit up both I’ve seen some monsters coming from both this year, jordanelle is like thirty five minutes from strawberry and also producing some large ones after only being stocked there for a few years, you’ll definitely catch a ton of cutthroat at strawberry too guarantee whether you want to or not
I’m looking forward to the Utah lakes as well since I live here.
No corn on the hooch?
i use berkley maggots not corn
Sounds good. Going for the opener Monday. I’ll let ya know how she goes
What date/month was this?
May 2022
What net do you use?
I use Ranger Nets rubber net
I fly fish crane every year from a pram and always catch at least a few Kokanee on chironomid patterns. They absolutely put the trout to shame in the fight department, and are amazing table fare (in the spring) I always thought about targeting them exclusively but have yet to try.
Crane has always had big Kokes, it just never had the numbers like Wickiup but there is a solid population.
Crane is the last lake standing in Central OR due to the spotted frog they won't drain it like Wickiup