October at Strawberry

Jon, Paxton and I decided to hit Strawberry for some of the usually great fishing in October. As we predicted, the cutthroat trout were busily cooperative. Jon used this weird rig he saw his brother-in-law using on a previous trip. A big white Rooster-Tail, tipped with a small 2" white grub, and a gob of nightcrawler to top it all off. It looked like a tangled mess. But that combo got hits every couple of minutes for our entire time there. We were just trolling with mono near the top of the water. No downriggers this time.
The wind was quite blustery, and I only fished for about an hour. I couldn't fight the wind and fish very well, so I abandoned my pole after a big tangle with one of Jon's poles. I didn't have on the magic combo lure anyway, and hadn't had any hits at all. I changed up 3 different times, but to no avail. Also, we didn't go to our usual spot along the rocky edges because it's a long trip across the lake, and we didn't want to go far in the wind with Pax on board. So we fished the mouth of Mud Creek, and it was excellent. Fish were being marked on the finder from 10 to 25 feet down, for the most part. It didn't matter how deep of water we were in, the trout kept on biting everywhere.
The trout ranged from 17" to 20", and were scrappy fighters. Paxton brought in a couple of them himself. He seemed to have a great time. We even stopped to get him a couple of crawdads on a chicken leg, and he played with them for over an hour.
I don't wager a guess at how many fish Jon caught, even though he was getting hits continually. Many of those he landed before we headed back to Park City and the condo Jamie and Jon and the kids were staying in. Paxton's nap time.
But it was a very promising trip, and I'd like to go back one more time and try to hit a calm day.

As you can see, the 'dads out of the Berry are quite large, and a lot of people fish for them for a dinner entree'.