Okanagan sockeye 2024
- Thread starter sly_karma
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bcbassfishing
Well-Known Member
Here they come.... August sockeye whacking is great. Gonna try some new stacking clips this year vs multipul stopper beads.
bcbassfishing
Well-Known Member
I run multiple stoppers but was thinking about trying th stacking clips off only one connection point on the riggers
Corey_lax
Crew Member
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
Crew Member
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.
ryanonthevedder
Member
We just need that Enloe Dam out so we can have summer run steelhead back to the Similkameen...
sly_karma
Crew Member
Hope I'm not too old to river fish by then.
Max123
Well-Known Member
Too true, what a mess - hasn't produced a kilowatt of power since 1958. At least the Utility has finally given up on their pipe dream that they can revive the dam to produce power (estimates back in 2018 indicated that power from such a dam would be 10x more expensive than from other sources).
Anyway, there are plans to remove the dam, but the wheels are turning really slowly. No money to get it done, and no one has a good remediate plan for the massive amount of sediment held up behind the dam.
I've been going to this area of the Similkameen since I was a kid and the road between Loomis - Nighthawk - Oroville is one of the nicest scenic driving roads in the entire Pacific Northwest. If you happen to be in Osoyoos for a day, its worth a trip across the line. If you are really adventurous and have a 4wd vehicle, you can head up the forest service roads up above Loomis and head into the Pasayten Wilderness - truly an amazing area. Just make sure your AC works if you go ing the summer, +40C is the norm. In the Spring/Fall its a great biking route.
wildmanyeah
Crew Member
Just have to hope for a colder July so they go into the lake and don’t get thermal locked
ClintR
New Member
Colder than normal in the North Okanagan so far. 5 degrees at my place last night
Max123
Well-Known Member
I think 2022 was the bad year for fish die offs in Osoyoos Lake. I saw a few dead fish last year, but nothing like the 2022. Water levels in the Similkameen last year were crazy low, and flow levels didn't return to normal until well into the fall.
Rate of snowpack melt this year is closer to normal (but still low), versus last year where basically the entire snowpack melted in May.
Rate of snowpack melt this year is closer to normal (but still low), versus last year where basically the entire snowpack melted in May.
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