How about allowing anglers to fillet Kokanee at Strawberry!!
Leave skin attached! If a biologist or CO can’t tell a Kokanee fillet from a Cutthroat, We have bigger problems! Something needs to be done on cutthroat at strawberry in general as well. The other day I walked over to the cleaning station and a guy has 4 cutts all in the slot. I told him those were all cutts and not legal to keep. He said they are rainbows, I looked them up! I told him I could tell they were cutts from 20 feet away and it was almost dark! I assured him they were illegal cutts. Then a guy on other side of cleaning station said they are cutts, here is a rainbow and held it up for him and pointed out the differences!! The guy looks them up and still can’t tell he’s cleaning cutts!! That happens pretty much every day multiple times at soldier creek and strawberry! I have seen it countless times myself. I swear they could make a 3 trout limit of any size and discourage catch and release, less cutts would be killed than all the mishandled abused cutts released by caring and non caring anglers! Let people take 3 each and leave and probably less cutts killed overall.
This is my opinion and many others I know feel the same way, Bear Lake cutts are great fish in BEAR LAKE, not so much in strawberry. Last trip up I saw tons of chubs/minnows in the weedy shallows, and we could not keep cutts off our lines at 40 feet on downriggers. I don’t think they are doing the job on chubs because they only seem to be at similar depths spring and fall. I quit fishing I got so tired or releasing cutts and or dragging them around cause they are so wimpy many didn’t even release some 16-17 inchers. We Got a couple “slot busters” but let them go too.
Sorry rant over!
Leave skin attached! If a biologist or CO can’t tell a Kokanee fillet from a Cutthroat, We have bigger problems! Something needs to be done on cutthroat at strawberry in general as well. The other day I walked over to the cleaning station and a guy has 4 cutts all in the slot. I told him those were all cutts and not legal to keep. He said they are rainbows, I looked them up! I told him I could tell they were cutts from 20 feet away and it was almost dark! I assured him they were illegal cutts. Then a guy on other side of cleaning station said they are cutts, here is a rainbow and held it up for him and pointed out the differences!! The guy looks them up and still can’t tell he’s cleaning cutts!! That happens pretty much every day multiple times at soldier creek and strawberry! I have seen it countless times myself. I swear they could make a 3 trout limit of any size and discourage catch and release, less cutts would be killed than all the mishandled abused cutts released by caring and non caring anglers! Let people take 3 each and leave and probably less cutts killed overall.
This is my opinion and many others I know feel the same way, Bear Lake cutts are great fish in BEAR LAKE, not so much in strawberry. Last trip up I saw tons of chubs/minnows in the weedy shallows, and we could not keep cutts off our lines at 40 feet on downriggers. I don’t think they are doing the job on chubs because they only seem to be at similar depths spring and fall. I quit fishing I got so tired or releasing cutts and or dragging them around cause they are so wimpy many didn’t even release some 16-17 inchers. We Got a couple “slot busters” but let them go too.
Sorry rant over!
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