Two years ago I had no idea what a Dodger was, let alone a Squid. I studied what I could, spent more money than my wife will ever know, went a couple times last year with zero Kokanee in the cooler. So I studied a little more and bought more tackle box candy.
We went last Friday and was on Strawberry trolling by 5:15 am. I had my limit by 7 am and my buddy had his (with my help) by 9 am. The catch slowed about 10:00 with the wind picking up. We fnished up about 11:30 after catching 13 Kokanee, two rainbows, a couple cutthroats, and one big chub.
We trolled about a half mile east and later about a half mile southeast of the marina. Double stacked both downriggers at 15 and 25 feet with a pink dodger and pink squid running 1.3 to 1.5 mph.
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Congrats on the nice mess of fish but be careful...now the addiction begins.[
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good job in learning how to catch Kokanee
you can learn a lot from being on BFT
you can see that by all the boats fishing on Saturday
what I don't like is they won't let you fillet a fish at Strawberry
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Quote:what I don't like is they won't let you fillet a fish at Strawberry
Amen to that! Those carcusses & guts can stink pretty bad this time of year in the garbage can.
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Now you're 'hooked' and life will never be same again! The candy purchases have paid off.
Welcome to the site and thanks for posting.
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1st paragraph sounds like a blue print for my koke fishing at the beginning. Thanks for the report.
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I don't understand their thinking either. They could easily check the fish when we come in or at the cleaning station. Then let us fillet them and go home. My fish go right on ice when they are caught so i just stopped at Deer Creek and fillet my fish there.
Another issue I have with Strawberry is an annual pass is somewhere around $90-100. Yet my State Park annual pass (not accepted at Strawberry) is $35 for a senior.
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When I need to put the fish guts in the garbage I usually vacuum seal them and they don't stink at all. Some of my buddies put the guts in a baggie and throw them in the freezer until garbage day.
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And who is going to monitor the cleaning station 24 hours each and every day? And what about the guys that would filet their catch on their boats.... if it was legal to filet them at the reservoir? People would start keeping a whole lot more Cutthroats that were 20 or 21 inches, and just say that the filet didn't come off of the fish very well. Or they would say that the skinless filet was from a Rainbow Trout. Nope. Don't allow filleting when there is a slot limit. If you want to filet fish before you bring them home, there are a lot of other places to fish.
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I can't seem to find it in the current guidebook, but that has been illegal in the past. You might transfer a disease or parasite from one body of water to another.
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Dumbest rule ever, it seriously needs to be amended!
Simple fix:
No filleting of cutthroat trout.
All other trout may be filleted but must have skin left on.
Done.
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Agreed, dumbest rule ever. The cutts are the fish with the slot limit and of course could not be measured after filleting. The kokanee and rainbows have no such slot.
If the CO can't tell what kind of fish the fillets are from (skin left on), he/she needs to go back to school.
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