(07-02-2020, 12:31 PM)dubob Wrote:(07-02-2020, 12:31 AM)Jbworkin Wrote: Kokanee fishing was fairly good today. Pink and orange were the best colors today with one caught on green as well. Best speed was 1.5 to 1.6 with a few caught at slower speeds. The wind kicked up around noon and we called it a day.All y'all would be very surprised at the number of fishers that CANNOT identify correctly a cutthroat, rainbow, or kokanee taken out of Strawberry. And cutthroat in Strawberry are subject to a slot limit whereas rainbows & kokanee are not. So, to protect the uneducated from themselves, the easiest approach for LE folks is to make it illegal to fillet ANY fish from Strawberry while in the field.
Quick question. Why is filleting Kokanee prohibited at the reservoir? Wouldn't keeping the skin on be enough for Koks?
I know; I know; it's stupid. But there isn't a day goes by that some uneducated fisher will show up at the cleaning station at Strawberry/Soldier Creek BRAGGING about his 4 kokanee salmon laid out on the board when he in fact has kept cutthroats. I've seen it more than once and it has been reported on these boards a few times.
If you don't believe me, do this. Next time you're at Strawberry and see a CO, ask him or her how many times they have checked someone up there who had cutthroat in possession when the fisher was 100% certain that the fish they had in possession were kokanee. So when the uneducated fisher keeps a cutthroat thinking its a kokanee and can't filet it in the field, he may still not get a ticket if the so called kokanee is a legal cutthroat (not in the slot).
If it's not a kokanee they all go back.