Okanagan sockeye 2024

[sly_karma]

Here we go again. Early days, but the fish have entered the lower Columbia. Hopefully we don't have a repeat of last year's disappointment where a larger than forecast return went for nought, trapped in Brewster Pool by high water temp and low flow in the Okanagan River.

 

[Corey_lax]

I'm in Osoyoos for the last week of July. Hoping it will be open but is it normally just a few weeks in August?

 

[sly_karma]

Usually opens around Aug 1, give or take. they start with 2 week opening and have added additional weeks in abundant years.

 

[sly_karma]

 

[bcbassfishing]

Here they come.... August sockeye whacking is great. Gonna try some new stacking clips this year vs multipul stopper beads.

 

[tubber]

Clips for rods and clips for dummy flashers hold on 30 feet of gangen. I hate the stacking clips, but they work too.

 

[bcbassfishing]

I run multiple stoppers but was thinking about trying th stacking clips off only one connection point on the riggers

 

[Corey_lax]

Usually opens around Aug 1, give or take. they start with 2 week opening and have added additional weeks in abundant years.

That’s what I thought. Probably not gonna drag the boat/gear up on july 20th if I’m gonna miss the fun by a week. My boats not much of a wakeboard boat to have fun up there when there’s no sockeye fishing haha

 

[sly_karma]

 

[sly_karma]

This year's forecast over Bonneville is 410,000 sockeye. These are distributed across the entire Columbia system, but 75-80% of these are Okanagan fish. Here's the YTD figures. Once things progress further, start looking at the Wells Dam figures, the closest counter to the Okanagan River confluence.