Friday morning was my first official day of being retired after 30 years in education. I called my good friend Coach Mac and asked if he wanted to fish Strawberry. He accepted the offer and we planned to meet at 5 am and go to Strawberry, our plan was to catch some Kokanee and make it back home early. We met up and made our way up the canyon exchanging stories along the way and then we crested the dam at Deer Creek and it was glass and not a boat in sight. Our plans changed we decided to go for some big rainbow trout at Deer Creek. We had to go into Heber for bait though. We made it back to the Island park and it was closed! We continued back the state park and found it closed as well, this was 5:45 am and they weren't open for fishing!! Not cool! But a boat pulled in behind us and went through the out gate and we followed. The State needs to rethink their plan on that.
We made it to the ramp and launched, we were the first boat on the water. We ran to the Island and started trolling within 5 minutes Mac had a fish on and landed, Then he got another, he was running flashers set up for Kokanee, but then I got landed one on rainbow pop gear. The fishing was hot and fast for the first pass through the lane and we had five on the boat in a half hour. We made the turnaround and I got another in the turn. We continued back through the lane and got nothing. The fish we got were all small planters, thinking the bigger fish must be in deep water we cut across the main body to the white rocks and fished that lane but still no fish. I changed up rigs a couple times looking for the right color and flash combination. The change of colors was not helping. We made a diagonal cut back to the point and as we crossed the main body I got two fish still small planters. We ran the island lane again and Mac got two decent sized rainbows but still not what we would call footballs. Trolling past the island and into the rock fields we tried to get some action but nothing was biting there. We continued on to the white cliffs and the river channel getting nothing.
We pulled the trolling motor and made a run to the dam thinking again they must be in deeper water. We dropped in at sailboat beach and trolled the roadside catching a couple more decent sized rainbows but the big ones we were hoping for. We trolled across the buoys and decided to call it a day. The wind was coming up and the recreation boaters were out by the masses. We loaded and got the boat decontaminated by the girls at the station. Overall it was good catching day with over a dozen landed only three of decent size, however.
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