09-08-2022, 09:21 PM
With only 2 more days of the kokanee season, met Dave and Paul (non-bfter's) at the mouth of Provo canyon at 0500 and headed for Strawberry hoping for a little cooler weather and better fishing than any recent reports. Launched in the dark, 1 other truck and trailer in the parking lot and 49* air temp. Headed north and started in the middle just north of the dry docks. Trolled to the island, around the east side toward the ladders then east to the gravel pit overlook and then south to sage. Caught probably 15 nice cutts, none under or over the slot - no kokanee. Finally went back east of the island toward Strawberry inlet. In 40' of water started seeing groups of fish on the electronics that looked like they may be kokanee quite near the bottom. Unfortunately by then it was 11:00 and starting to get pretty hot - could not get anything to bite.
Stopped at the fish trap on the way home. I hope what we found is not foreshadow of things to come. There were only 4 kokanee that we could see in the fish trap and none in the stream. It seems that in years past they have started to pile up in the trap near the end of August. I hope the numbers increase pretty soon or the stocking program is going to suffer big time this year. Hopefully they are just still staging out in the bay and will be in the trap soon.
Stopped at the fish trap on the way home. I hope what we found is not foreshadow of things to come. There were only 4 kokanee that we could see in the fish trap and none in the stream. It seems that in years past they have started to pile up in the trap near the end of August. I hope the numbers increase pretty soon or the stocking program is going to suffer big time this year. Hopefully they are just still staging out in the bay and will be in the trap soon.