A Day with Karen at Strawberry Reservoir

Before leaving for Strawberry, I replaced the tip top of Karen’s pink fishing pole. It had broken on her previous trip to Strawberry. Since only two or three inches had broken off, I just glued on a new tip top with Ferrule Cement. This is the same glue used to glue the tips on arrows. You melt a bit onto the tip of the rod and twist the tip top on over the glue, making sure it is aligned properly with the other guides before allowing it to harden.

The next step was to get Karen a fishing license. The internet makes this especially easy. You don’t even need to go to the fly shop. You can go to the site: http://wildlife.utah.gov/dwr/licenses/ and buy a license on line. You then print out a temporary license and the real, waterproof one is mailed to you.

The next step is to pull the ice packs out of the freezer and put them in the cooler along with drinks, lunch and snacks. After loading the truck and hooking up the boat the first stop is …to the candy store. I usually stop by the 7-11 when I take my kids fishing. This time we went to Smith’s. We were bummed out there weren’t any Chick O’ Stix. After getting our other favorite travel goodies we were on the road.

Strawberry Reservoir is 80 miles from Salt Lake. There is a ramp at Renegade Point which is 13 miles past the visitor’s center. This ramp is not nearly as crowed as the Strawberry Bay and is near a couple of good fishing bays and points like Haw’s point where Karen and I fished.

After launching, we crossed the bay and started fishing around the point on the opposite shore making our way toward Haw’s point. Immediately Karen caught a nice Cutthroat, the first fish of the day. Way to go Karen! It was about 16 inches long.

We then continued around the point and I caught a rainbow about the same size as Karen's cutthroat.

We released these and continued fishing, keeping just further than casting distance from the shore.

We saw a few large, black, crawdads and a few fish follow our lures but weren’t able to hook anything else. It was a gorgeous sunny day and a very enjoyable time spent with my daughter.