Parasites on Kokanee?

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Ай бұрын

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Salmincola californiensis is a parasitic copepod that attacks salmon and trout species on the West coast of North America. It has spread inland due to poor hatchery practices and can now be found as far east as Colorado. In this video I discuss what drives copepod outbreaks.
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@santinodewyer6865 Ай бұрын

Caught my first Kokanee today! I've been on a mission the last couple months. Thank you, for the research and effort you put into this channel.

@spiltmilt Ай бұрын

Congrat!

@TheRyan12576 Ай бұрын

Unfortunately the kokanee at Lake Billy Chinook have them really bad. No matter the size.

@pdxfin Ай бұрын

And they stay crunchy even in milk😋 No problem removing them while scaling with just a little extra attention around the fins. The fish seemed very healthy otherwise. Your thesis about the size correlation matched my limited experience. I caught 6 in the 15-17 range that all had plenty of parasites. The one that I caught that was only about 12 inches was clean.

@michaelmoore2872 Ай бұрын

Very interesting. You always put on a good informative show. I live in Alberta I haven't come across any of these on the stocker Rainbows that I catch. But I have come across the black spot parasite on the rainbows. Perhaps your viewers would be interested on this topic also . Love your show man.

@3nails337 Ай бұрын

They've been on kokanee in my home lake (Whatcom) since I can remember. Been fishing it since the 70's. Whatcom supplies the kokanee for a lot of lakes in Washington too. I wonder if that spreads them around.

@spiltmilt Ай бұрын

Most likely

@bhoyt4530 Ай бұрын

I live on lake whatcom and fish it for kokanee too!

@tyjo44 29 күн бұрын

That’s an interesting thought on why Kokanee are jumping and it makes sense. Is that also why you think chinook and sockeye jump? We all see those salmon hitting the surface and sometimes swimming with their back out of the water at the Brewster pool. Some say it’s to break up eggs/milt… what are your thoughts?

@bajacuffs Ай бұрын

I have been seeing it on all my Lake Stevens kokanne. It's unfortunate. None on my Chelan kokanne

@nickbarker561 Ай бұрын

That is quite unfortunate. I'm headed out there tomorrow morning for the first time, hopefully they aren't too bad.

@dbfishing8588 Ай бұрын

Hey Tyler, nice video. Was wondering if you have tried out the "new" skinny flutter bug from Paulina, any thoughts?

@spiltmilt Ай бұрын

I have but haven’t had much luck with it. I gave one to another angler at the fish along and he limited out both days in it before 7 AM

@fishwhistle9666 Ай бұрын

The fat pink or orange with scale and glow back have caught most of my fish this yr. My new go-to. Such a pain in the butt to get in Canada though....

@nolebrady8256 Ай бұрын

I used to caught big trout on Hayden lake and they were full of the worms went out was warmer water fish and game told me they was normal for that time of year..I said if I wanted to eat worms I would buy those instead. They said wants you cook them it's fine plus if you ever put a fish under ultraviolet light you would freak out from the parasites on them..

@davidhadley3137 15 күн бұрын

Do you sell any hats? I dig that one you’re wearing

@spiltmilt 14 күн бұрын

Not at the moment. Working on it though

@jackchinook Ай бұрын

I’ve been wondering if this is the same phenomenon that occurred at Palmer Lake. Thoughts?

@spiltmilt Ай бұрын

It is

@nnylvirp Ай бұрын

Hello Tyler. I have been fishing whiskytown since early April this year and surface temp were around 58f , The fish were porpoising a lot in early morning. I did catch fish top lining and to 25 ft. I ran my fish hawk and found the temp stayed pretty consistent until 50 ft ,I hit 54 ft at 60ft. Not at all what I expected. The fish then had some copepods. Now I find the bite sporadic ,quit top lining early May , I wonder if the fish hang down lower , come up shallower to feed then run back down? Really enjoy your insight.

@spiltmilt Ай бұрын

I was just there I agree. I think the deeper fish aren't feeding but mostly going down there to find colder water and the fish coming up higher in the water column are there to feed.

@aesthetic_mfr 29 күн бұрын

@@spiltmilt They seem to repeat this pattern all summer there as well. I've seen large schools there near the bottom tightly grouped and could troll right through them with no hits but get pounded by much smaller, more sporadic, upper level schools. In fact, I've seen singular fish on sonar move 30' down the water column to hit my lure. It actually made me wonder if I should start putting moon jelly stickers on the backside of my dodgers too. I actually hoped one day to ask you your thoughts about stickers on the backside of dodgers because I think I recall an episode where you mentioned sonar indicated fish going deeper to hit your lures too. It just made me wonder if we're all using dodgers.. backwards, so to speak. I only have a one rod license so can't run the experiment side by side to see.

@daveengstrom9250 Ай бұрын

Can they be safely removed and the fish released? Ae you near Redding?

@spiltmilt Ай бұрын

The stress would more than likely kill the fish. Yes near Redding

@brian1204 Ай бұрын

Better to keep the fish

@jimmychesney7162 Ай бұрын

You hit on it at the end of the video but it sounds like a lack of oxygen could explain their behavior. With the higher water temps and low dissolved oxygen I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s why they’re surfacing. When I worked as a hatchery tech I saw thousands of Coho smolts do this when the DO was low.

@rickw9169 Ай бұрын

According to the former local fish and game biologist, the parasites spread from fish to fish because the fish school together. He told me to think of it as a bunch of cattle in a pen rubbing up against each other. Thinning the heard was his answer to stopping the spread. Last year I caught a Kokanee in Whiskeytown with about a 5 inch lamprey eel attached to it. If the spot is round it can be where a lamprey latched on.

@spiltmilt Ай бұрын

Well that former biologist was full of bull poo-poo. Larval copepods free swim or float in the water column and attach to fish as they swim by. They do not spread due to direct contact

@rickw9169 Ай бұрын

@@spiltmilt That particular biologist is a large reason you had such success at Whiskeytown. I have not researched the subject and took his word for it. No reason to disrespect him or what he said. Keep a open mind.