10-27-2010, 03:43 PM
My thoughts are that people would be fishing more which always brings in more money (gas, food, gear, etc). There would be a few new license sales from in state but I think we would have tons of out of state fishermen coming more often. I drive 6 hours to fish Henrys once or twice a year and run into tons of Utah anglers while there. Add some new big species to Strawberry and it wouldn't be long before there are anglers from all over the west coast coming to Strawberry several times per year. I never see the campgrounds full so I would bet that would change.
As far as fishing pure cutt fisheries, they seem to be all over and the new trend in Utah. But Utah is adding Tigers to many of these fisheries such as CCR and many other smaller lakes throughout the state. It looks they are turning Scofield into Strawberry 2 with the amount of cutts and nothing else that they dumped in this year.
Cutts and Tigers fish very differently. For most of the year at the Berry, the fish would hardly cross paths as Tigers stay shallow and the cutts stay in 30ft+. Tigers would cover some of the same area as bows and give shore anglers more of an option during most of the year.
If people saw pictures of big browns, tigers, bows and maybe even brookies and hybrids to go with the big cutts and kokes, I guarantee you there would be a boost in revenue to many different business. There may even be enough new revenue for new businesses around Strawberry.
And for Henry's those cutts do just fine with the hybrids and brooks and the brooks don't seem to be reproducing on their own or presenting any threat. Catching a 19" brookie there last week was almost as exciting as the 6 lb hybid that we caught, but we still caught 3 cutts for 1 of everything else that we caught.
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As far as fishing pure cutt fisheries, they seem to be all over and the new trend in Utah. But Utah is adding Tigers to many of these fisheries such as CCR and many other smaller lakes throughout the state. It looks they are turning Scofield into Strawberry 2 with the amount of cutts and nothing else that they dumped in this year.
Cutts and Tigers fish very differently. For most of the year at the Berry, the fish would hardly cross paths as Tigers stay shallow and the cutts stay in 30ft+. Tigers would cover some of the same area as bows and give shore anglers more of an option during most of the year.
If people saw pictures of big browns, tigers, bows and maybe even brookies and hybrids to go with the big cutts and kokes, I guarantee you there would be a boost in revenue to many different business. There may even be enough new revenue for new businesses around Strawberry.
And for Henry's those cutts do just fine with the hybrids and brooks and the brooks don't seem to be reproducing on their own or presenting any threat. Catching a 19" brookie there last week was almost as exciting as the 6 lb hybid that we caught, but we still caught 3 cutts for 1 of everything else that we caught.
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