Myself and my 2 buddies Jim Beam and Michelob Light went to church at Strawberry yesterday. I did some praying and looking for answers. Managed to catch a beautiful limit of fish for dinner. 3 bows and a nice koke. WOW. Fresh smoked salmon in the winter caught in Utah. All fish were caught using, ice rod, reel, 8lb line, a lead head jig, some plastic things, and bait. All fish were caught through a hole in the ice at Strawberry.
“Cheers”
Awesome job on the Kok! I’d love to pull some through the ice and put on the smoker Santa brought me. They sure are pertty fish!
Great job T.
Nice Koke! I went up yesterday and caught a wayward one myself. Wish I could say I was targeting it, but I can’t . Just caught it on a paddle bug fishing the normal trout locations and tactics. I caught mine in the meadows, which I thought was kind of weird… the only time I have caught them ice fishing before was in the narrows.
Mine was a smaller than your catch, so I put him back down the hole. Here is a pic.
what section were you fishing, really want to catch one, but can’t! any advice is welcome.
Ok he is the big secret to catch kokes at strawberry. There is none. Was at the ladders fishing for cutts and bows and saw a fish on the finder follow my jigs to the fish got a hit, set hook, had the fish on and reeled 3 or 4 cranks and it was gone… Kept reeling to check biat and the fish was racing to the surface still on. pretty funny actually. 1 1/2 pearl tube with meat. a fluke for sure…
I actually like the taste of the bows better and so did my wife. I will let all the kokes go from now on. took me 20 years of ice fishing up there so I am sure I am hurting the population with the amount I catch through the ice. LOL…
Cheers…