07-02-2020, 02:34 PM
I was there yesterday and saw a guy filet his Kokanee at the cleaning station but more often it is like Dubob said, a trout fisherman will come in with a limit of cutthroat that they believe are rainbows. Many times I have had to educate people about the fish they are cleaning and inform them that they don't have a limit of rainbows but cutthroat! I have personally never seen a conservation officer check the cleaning station at strawberry but if they did, they would write several tickets every busy day. I usually don't even look any more because I just get frustrated at the ignorance of some fishermen, especially when they begin to argue and insist that their limit of cutthroats are rainbow trout and legal. As for camping there and fileting fish, you can filet your kokanee at camp if you are going to eat them and then run the mess back to the cleaning station for disposal but that is a hassle.