Strawberry is Utah's stillwater pillar — a big, high reservoir in the valley east of the Wasatch, and the obvious answer when the tailwaters are mobbed and the lower rivers are running warm. It grows cutthroat and rainbows to real size on a rich diet of chironomids, leeches and damsels, with the Bonneville cutthroat the headline fish and a slot limit protecting them. It's a tube and boat game: chironomids under an indicator over the weed lines, balanced leeches on the drop-offs, damsels in early summer. Ice-off in spring and the cool of autumn are the windows; midsummer pushes the fish deep and the wind can blow you off the water, so pick your day. At this elevation it ices over, so the open-water season is the event.
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