Strawberry Fishing
Marolynn has been in Utah all week with her mom and I took the opportunity to fly up, go fishing, and drive the car with Marolynn back home. So I and my son Mike and Mike Rowbury took his boat up to Strawberry reservoir yesterday for a morning's worth of fishing.

We launched the boat about 6 a.m. and started trolling into a light north wind shortly thereafter. The last trip that the two Mikes took resulted in only 5 fish, and Rowbury and I figured that the successful Ketchikan salmon trip broke the jinx and so it did; we had 5 fish by the time the sun broke through the clouds at 7 a.m. We didn't rack up the numbers of fish that we did last year, but it was a quite satisfying day with 29 fish brought in.

Fish size limits run from 14" or less to 22" or greater, and the fish that Mike Robury is displaying is quite typical of the fish usually caught; between the keeper limits, so they are released. There are two trout species in Strawberry reservoir; Cutthroat and Rainbow trout, and inter-bred fish which are considered to be Cutthroat (see the red patch under the mouth).

Also in the lake are Kokanee a landlocked salmon of which the limit is one fish. I had the fortune of bringing up my very first Kokanee this trip. When I got the fish up to the surface, Mike Robury got all excited -- "hey there's no spots on that fish; that's a Kokanee! Get it into the boat!"