Strawberry, What If.

[fishnotphish]

The DWR listed 10,000 Kokanee a year are caught at Strawberry  They stock over 400,000 and most fish reach maturity at 3 years old. So you have 3 years of classes in the lake. Do the math over  1,000,000 Kokes that we can target in the lake. So if the morality is 50% we still have over 600,000 fish in the lake .

You are assuming all planted kokanee survive to adulthood, which is not a reality.  I'm confident, many of them become food for the cutthroat and even the rainbows.

I wondered that, too. But then I saw the tens of thousands of bright orange spawning Kokanee in the fall, and, realizing they would all shortly be dead, decided that there seems to be enough.

I was there today, too. Around 8:00 a.m. I took a quick count from where I was (somewhere between Mud Creek and the dock) and counted 70 boats that I could see. Counting both the SC and Strawberry sides, I'll bet they handled 200+ boats today. And it's still technically a weekday.