We were fishing from 8 to 20 ft and didn't mark hardly any fish. On 12/15 when we were there we marked fish consistently and boated over 20 fish. Well next time I guess.

Sure makes a person wonder where they go though. On 12/15 we marked lots of fish, last Thursday hardly any. I wonder how far a RB will move in 24- 48 hours. Maybe the lake dropping triggers a move like cold water does for Salmon. Maybe there at Kettle, now there is an idea.

The kokanee follow the food source (zooplankton) and since their primary food source is at mercy of current, I'd think they'll be further downstream than before. The RB don't feed so much on zooplankton, even so, I've never figured out why they seem to be affected by changes in reservoir level except to say my personal experience has been, in general, rising water conditions turn the bite off whereas dropping did not. Exception being large transitions in either direction (more than 1') in reservoir level seem to shut it all down. There's been a 5' drop in reservoir level since Sunday, that's pretty big. As of 6am level was 1278.2' and the current hydrologic forecast is predicting 1279.04' by 10am, another big change in a short time. I get hydrologic reports from here - https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/river.php?wfo=OTX&wfoid=18722&riverid=204540&pt%5B%5D=144992&allpoints=144991%2C144992%2C145035%2C145041%2C145048%2C145051%2C145270%2C143450%2C150895%2C146745&data%5B%5D=all