Definition of kokanee
: a small landlocked sockeye salmon
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The water temperature is hanging in the low 40s, a little cold for kokanee.
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The kokanee bite finally turned on with warmer water temperatures.
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Next week's two-and-a-half-year-old kokanee, however, not only survived last week's vanguard Washington show in Puyallup, but are thriving on cold well water.
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The big news is kokanee to 16 inches are already being taken by topliners near the mouth of the river along with holdover rainbows.
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Nestled deep in the mountains above Cascade, Warm Lake is home to five species: rainbow trout, kokanee salmon, brook trout, protected bull trout and elusive Mackinaw trout.
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Fitzpatrick pulls the water from the ground and uses it first in the kokanee pond, then cleans and reuses it for other ponds of various warm-water fish.
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Use small, brightly colored spoons tipped with corn to tempt a kokanee, which often run in shallow schools under the ice.
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This isn't Jim's first steelhead, although his retirement in Sisters demands more interest in trolling for kokanee and fly-fishing for redside trout.
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Origin and Etymology of kokanee
perhaps from Shuswap (Salishan language of British Columbia) kəknǽxʷ
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