{"title":"Kits","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"slip-sinker-cut-bait-rig-1","title":"Catfish Slip Sinker Cut Bait Rig","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe slip sinker cut bait rig has been our most consistent, reliable setup for channel catfish at Utah Lake. After 15 years of fishing this lake, it's never let us down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eWhite bass is by far the most effective cut bait we've found. We recommend sizing up — a larger circle hook and a bigger chunk of cut bait than most anglers expect. This is intentional: we've never lost a fish to a hook this size, and the larger bait also helps keep bullhead catfish off your line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eWhite bass are also pretty easy to catch yourself — check out our White Bass page for tips on landing your own. If you'd rather skip that step, raw shrimp, chicken hearts and gizzards, and chicken liver are all solid alternative baits for this rig.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240879665410,"sku":null,"price":25.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/cat.png?v=1787960804"},{"product_id":"the-planter-special-1","title":"The Planter Special","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePlanted rainbows come out of a hatchery raceway where food arrived as pellets from above, and they never quite lose it. They cruise just off the bottom looking for something small and scented. This rig hands them exactly that, and it works about anywhere the truck has been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe whole thing hinges on the bait floating. A slip egg sinker rides down to a barrel swivel — the swivel stops the sinker and keeps the leader from twisting — then a fluorocarbon leader to a treble hook. Floating PowerBait molded around the hook lifts it off the bottom and into the trout's line of sight, and the longer the leader, the higher it rides. Fluoro matters here because planted trout sit in clear water and will look a bait over before they eat it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe sliding sinker lets a fish move off without feeling weight. That's what makes the rig work, and it's why you can't walk away from the rod. Watch the tip, be on it the second it nods, then reel down and sweep sideways — don't snap it. Trebles tear out of a soft trout mouth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBefore you buy this one.\u003c\/strong\u003e Scent bait on a treble gets swallowed. A fish that's had it thirty seconds is often hooked in the throat or the gills, and there's no safe way to back a treble out of either. Buy this rig when you're fishing to keep your limit. If you plan to release, fish a lure — or a worm and a marshmallow on a single hook — instead. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48243257835778,"sku":null,"price":28.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/Rainbow_2b7cb8fa-6703-47ef-b1d2-f07740b71e76.webp?v=1787966683"},{"product_id":"white-bass-killer-kit","title":"White Bass Killer Kit","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhite bass run in schools and the schools move. The fishing is feast or famine — nothing for an hour, then a fish a cast the moment you find them. This kit is built for that: cover water first, work the school second.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Rooster Tail is the search tool. Fan-cast it and keep it moving until something eats — that tells you where the fish are sitting and how deep. Once you have found them, switch to the ball head and grub and stay on the school. Cast past it and work the grub back faster and higher in the column than you would ever fish for walleye. White when the water is clearer, chartreuse when it is stained or the light is flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo ten-packs of heads is deliberate. When a school turns on you fish fast, and fast fishing costs jigs. You do not want to be digging through a box while the bite is happening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0BKf6oo37ss\"\u003eWhite Bass at Utah Lake — Find the School, Then Catch Fast\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKit includes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBall Head Jig — 1\/8 oz, White (10 pk)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBall Head Jig — 1\/8 oz, Chartreuse (10 pk)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrub — 3\", Chartreuse (15 pk)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrub — 3\", White (15 pk)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRooster Tail Spinner Lure — 1\/8 oz, White (2)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48267592859906,"sku":null,"price":24.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/White_Bass_e9df60d7-0f2c-4aa7-89c4-9e1847ea18b3.png?v=1788231509"},{"product_id":"yuba-cut-bait-rig","title":"Yuba Cut Bait Rig","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMussel and shrimp are what we tie on at Yuba when we want a bite from whatever is down there. They're the two most consistent producers on this reservoir for wipers, they leak scent into stained water, and they get eaten by wipers and channel cats alike — which matters on a water where you rarely get to pick your species.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe two aren't interchangeable, and it's worth carrying both. Shrimp is the tougher of the two. It rides through a long soak and a few short taps without coming apart, so it's what we run when the rod goes in a holder and stays there. Mussel is softer and oilier, so it gives up scent faster and pulls fish in quicker, but it comes off the hook quicker too — better when the wipers are active and you're recasting anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe rig is simple on purpose: a slip sinker above a barrel swivel, then a fluorocarbon leader down to a size 2 hook. The sliding sinker is the whole idea — a fish can pick the bait up and move off with it without feeling the weight, so it doesn't drop it before you get a chance to come tight. The swivel stops the sinker and keeps the leader from twisting. We run fluorocarbon on the business end because it takes abrasion better, it's harder for fish to see down there, and it's the piece we want to give first. Snags are the hard part of bottom fishing — hang up on a rock or a branch and the leader breaks before the swivel does, so you're retying a hook instead of rebuilding the whole rig.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48337116561666,"sku":null,"price":18.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/Wiper_a0133559-6262-4d80-9181-74240e0fdb24.avif?v=1788233481"},{"product_id":"scofield-tiger-muskie-kit","title":"Scofield Tiger Muskie Kit","description":"\u003cp\u003eUtah's Division of Wildlife Resources put tiger muskie into Scofield in 2017 for one reason: the reservoir had too many Utah chub, and they needed something big enough to eat them. Every fish they stocked was sterile, so the population is exactly what the DWR puts in and nothing more — but the ones that make it grow fast, because there's more food in that water than there are mouths to eat it. That one fact should shape how you fish it. You're not trying to fool a muskie with something clever. You're trying to look like a chub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lures come in pairs on purpose. Each of the three families has one natural pattern and one attractor. Goby Magic, the Brown Trout Buoyant, and the Yellow Perch Husky Jerk are for clear water and high sun, when a fish gets a long look and needs to see something it recognizes. White, Gold\/Red, and the Gold Husky Jerk are for chop, cloud, and stained water, when you have to be found before you can be eaten. Start loud to locate fish, then switch to the natural version for the ones that followed and wouldn't commit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRigging is simple. Run the snap swivel when you're on the spoons and the Rapalas — you'll cycle through colors and depths all day looking for the one they want, and the snap saves you retying every time while the barrel keeps the spoons from putting twist in your line. Take it off for the tube jig. A jig fishes best tied direct: the knot sits right at the nose, the bait falls the way it's supposed to, and there's no hardware hanging above it changing the drop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow the part that makes the biggest difference out there, and it isn't in the box. Tip your hooks with chub meat. A piece of chub on a jig or a spoon puts scent and taste on a bait that already has the right look, and it's what turns follows and short strikes into fish in the net. Frozen chub is usually on the shelf at your local Sportsman's Warehouse — pick some up on the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTip both the jigs and the spoons, but treat them differently. On the tube jig you can be generous; the jig's job is to fall and sit, and a good chunk of chub on the hook only helps. On the spoons, go very light — a small sliver is all you want. The Buoyant works because of its wobble, and too much meat kills that action and turns a swimming bait into a piece of dragging metal. If the spoon stops thumping on the retrieve, you've overdone it. Trim it back and try again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKit includes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeedless Tube Jig 3\/16 Oz.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePowerBait 3.5\" Power Tube - White\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePowerBait 3.5\" Power Tube - Goby Magic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuoyant 1\/4 oz. - Brown Trout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuoyant 1\/4 oz. - Gold\/Red\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDown Deep Husky Jerk - Size 10 - Gold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDown Deep Husky Jerk - Size 10 - Yellow Perch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBarrel Swivel w\/ Safety Snap Black Size 14\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48337135960322,"sku":null,"price":45.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/TigerMuskie.png?v=1788231540"},{"product_id":"largemouth-bass-kit","title":"Largemouth Bass Kit","description":"\u003cp\u003eLargemouth are an ambush fish. They set up on something — a weed edge, a laydown, a dock, a rock transition — and wait for food to come to them. That makes finding them the hard part of the day, not catching them, and it's why the fastest way to a good morning is to cover water until something eats, then slow down and work that stretch properly. This kit is built around that sequence. Three speeds, seven pieces, and enough range to fish a whole day without going back to the truck.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two Dives-To 04s are the fast end. Both run four feet on a balsa body, both dig down early instead of wasting the first half of the retrieve getting there, and both are meant to be run into things — rock, gravel, wood, the outside edge of grass. The deflection off cover is what draws the strike, not the steady swim. Live Bluegill covers the panfish half of a bass's diet and earns its keep in clear water where the fish gets a long look at what it's chasing. Dark Brown Crawdad covers the other half and is the one to grind along the bottom, because a crawfish scuttling off in a puff of silt is exactly what a bass expects to see when something knocks into the rocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe white Rooster Tail is the middle gear. An inline spinner throws flash and vibration a crankbait can't, and the hackle tail keeps pulsing even when the lure is barely moving, so it still looks alive on a slow retrieve or a pause. The blade turns on the drop as well as the retrieve, which means you can count it down and fish it at whatever depth the fish are holding instead of being locked to one running depth. White is the pick for wind and stained water, when a natural pattern disappears and a fish has to find the bait before it can eat it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRun the snap swivel on those three — both crankbaits and the spinner. They're the baits you'll cycle through most, and the snap lets you swap without cutting and retying every time you change your mind about depth or color. The barrel end does the more important job: a spinning blade feeds twist into your line a few turns at a time, and after an afternoon of Rooster Tail casts you'll have a spool full of it if nothing is bleeding it off as you go. The crankbaits don't twist line the way a spinner does, but the snap still earns its place there — it lets the bait hang loose on the nose instead of being cinched down tight by a knot, and a crankbait with room to move wobbles harder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTake the swivel off for the wacky setup. The hooks, O-rings, and The General are one rig, not three products, and that rig gets tied direct. Slide an O-ring onto the middle of the worm, run the size 2 wide gap hook under the ring rather than through the plastic, and cast it with no weight at all. Everything happens on the fall — the bait folds in half and both ends shiver on the way down, and that is the entire presentation. Any hardware above the hook adds weight at the nose and changes how it drops, and the drop is the only part the fish is judging. Tying direct also keeps the line clean so you can read the bite, which on a wacky rig almost always shows up as your line ticking or swimming off rather than anything you feel in the rod. The wide gap matters because the worm bunches around the hook when a fish inhales it, and a narrow hook fills with plastic and never reaches. The O-ring matters because a hook through the plastic tears out in two fish, while a hook under a ring lets one worm take a dozen. Green pumpkin in MaxScent is the finesse workhorse: muted enough not to spook anything in clear water, and the scent keeps a fish holding on long enough for you to get the rod up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFish it in that order. Start with a crankbait and cover water fast. The moment you get bit — or even just followed — stop, back off, and pick that spot apart with the wacky rig. The Rooster Tail is what you reach for when the wind comes up or the water colors and you want something between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKit includes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRapala Dives-To 04 - Live Bluegill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRapala Dives-To 04 - Dark Brown Crawdad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRooster Tail Spinner Lure 1\/4 Oz. 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Their eyes carry a reflective layer that lets them see in conditions where their prey can't, so they feed hardest at the edges of the day and in water with color in it — and they feed close to the bottom, on structure, without chasing far. Everything in this kit follows from that. Get down to them, stay in contact so you can feel a bite you'll never see, and give the fish something it can find when the light is poor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThat's also why this one isn't tied to a water. The same three presentations work at Utah Lake in April, Yuba through the summer, and Starvation, Willard or Deer Creek any time the wind lays down. Walleye behave like walleye everywhere. Only the depth changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe two ball heads are the core, and they split the day between them. Run white while there's light in the water — it reads as the pale, silvery forage walleye are already eating, and it still gets found in the stain at Utah Lake and Yuba. Switch to black as the sun drops or after a blow muddies things up. Black isn't subtle; it's the hardest silhouette you can show a fish looking up at a bright surface, and contrast beats brightness once the light is gone. Both heads are round on purpose — they fall straight, add no action of their own, and hand the whole job to the plastic behind them. A quarter ounce is the weight that keeps you on the bottom when the wind bows your line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Gulp minnow in Black Shad goes on the black head, which is the same reasoning doubled, plus scent. A walleye takes a bait softly and holds it, and if it tastes right it holds a beat longer — that beat is your hookset. The 3\" chartreuse grub fills the gap the other two colors leave. White works when there's light and clarity, black works when there's neither, and chartreuse holds an outline in the flat grey middle: the chop after a blow, an overcast afternoon, the green tint Utah Lake takes on in August. The tail kicks at any speed, so it works dragged, hopped, or barely moving at all, and it's cheap enough to burn through while you're covering water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Rapala is the kit's other gear entirely. Working the bottom is the right answer most of the day, but at dusk and through the spring, walleye push shallow and up off the floor, and a jig dragging bottom is no longer where they are. That's the Original Floating's window. Cast it along a rip-rap face and work it back with a twitch and a pause, or flatline it behind the boat around two miles an hour. Silver is the finish for clear water and good light, and because it floats, a pause climbs it over rock instead of burying it in one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFish the kit in that order. Start on the bottom with the white head. When you get bit, slow down and work that depth properly. When the light goes, either change to the black head or leave the bottom altogether and put the Rapala up where the fish have moved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOne thing before you go. Walleye are the best-eating fish in this state and the rules reflect it — limits and slot restrictions differ from water to water and change from year to year. Check the current Utah Fishing Guidebook for the reservoir you're on before you keep any.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKit includes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerkley Gulp! 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They'll work it through the dark and slide back out as the sun clears the ridge. That window, the last hour of night through the first hour of light, is the only time a shore angler and a large cutthroat are reliably in the same place. This kit is built for exactly that window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe reason both lures float matters more than anything else in the box. You're casting into water you can't see, over rock and weed you haven't mapped, and a sinking bait finds every bit of it. Stop reeling and these rise instead of hanging up — so you can work a boulder field by feel, pausing every time you touch something and letting the lure climb over it. That single property is what makes a balsa floating minnow the shore-fishing night bait, and it's why anglers were throwing this exact lure in the dark decades before anything else on the shelf existed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBe honest about color in the dark: at true night it's doing almost nothing. The fish is hunting a silhouette against the sky and reading the water with its lateral line, and what sells the lure is the balsa wobble — a light body rolls hard at a crawl, which is the speed you want when a fish is hunting by feel. Color starts earning its keep as the sky greys up, and that's when you choose between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePerch is the one for waters where perch and chub are the meal, which is most of them. Its barred flank is what a cutthroat has been eating its whole life, and once there's enough light for a fish to inspect a bait before committing, a pattern that reads as a real fish outfishes one that only flashes. Rainbow Trout is the planter imitation. Utah stocks catchable rainbows into these reservoirs all season and the biggest cutthroat in them know exactly what a nine-inch trout looks like — throw it near a ramp or a stocking shoreline, especially in the weeks after a plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRun the snap swivel, and understand which half of it you're buying. The barrel end is along for the ride here — a Rapala rolls, it doesn't spin, so it won't put twist in your line the way a spinner does. The snap is the point, for two reasons. The first is practical: swapping colors at four in the morning with cold hands, by headlamp, is where good sessions go to die, and a snap turns a retie into two seconds. The second matters more than most people think. Tie a knot tight to the eye of a balsa minnow and you damp the very thing you're paying for. A snap lets the bait swing free at the nose, and a lure with room to move wobbles harder at slow speeds — which is the whole presentation here. A loop knot does the same job if you'd rather tie one; the snap just does it faster, in the dark. Black finish, so there's no bright flash riding a few inches ahead of your bait in clear water at first light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFish them slow and shallow. Cast parallel to the bank rather than straight out, because the fish are between you and deep water, not past it. Reel just fast enough to feel the bait working, and put a pause in every few turns. Most of your bites will come inside a rod length or two of shore, and a fair number will come while the lure is sitting still. Resist the urge to speed up when nothing happens — the crawl is the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwo things before you go. Walk the shoreline you plan to fish in daylight first, so you know where the drop-offs and the trip hazards are, and keep your headlamp off the water — a beam across a shallow flat empties it. And check the current Utah Fishing Guidebook for the water you're on. Several of the best cutthroat fisheries in the state run slot limits that differ from the general regulation and change from year to year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKit includes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRapala Original Floating F09 — Perch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRapala Original Floating F09 — Rainbow Trout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBarrel Swivel w\/ Safety Snap — Black, Size 14\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48413295051010,"sku":null,"price":22.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/CutthroatTrout.png?v=1788231546"},{"product_id":"strawberry-shore-rig","title":"Strawberry Shore Rig","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eStrawberry is the best trout water in the state and most of it is fishable from the bank. Miles of shoreline, fish that cruise the shallows morning and evening, and no boat required. What it asks of you is patience and a rig that puts bait where a trout will find it — which, on a bottom made of silt and weed, means getting the bait up off it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThat's the whole design here. A slip egg sinker rides down to a barrel swivel; the swivel stops the weight and keeps your leader from twisting. Below it runs six-pound fluorocarbon to a single baitholder hook, and both baits in this rig float. The sinker holds bottom, the bait rides above it, and the longer you run the leader the higher it sits. The sliding sinker is the other half of it: a fish can pick the bait up and move off without feeling any weight at all, which is what gets you a clean take instead of a dropped bait. Fluorocarbon on the business end because Strawberry runs clear and a trout there has seen a lot of line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwo baits, and they cover opposite conditions. The Gulp crawler is the natural one — segmented, pinched, moving on both ends in any current — for clear water and fish that have been picked at all summer. The pink shrimp mallow is the loud one, for stained water after a blow, flat grey light, or the last half hour of evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStop and buy a container of nightcrawlers on the way up.\u003c\/strong\u003e It's the one thing that isn't in this box and it's the difference-maker. The marshmallow's job is buoyancy and color; a worm's job is being food. Thread the mallow up the shank first, then hook a piece of nightcrawler behind it so the worm trails and works in the current. The mallow lifts the whole thing off the bottom and gives a fish something to find; the worm is what convinces it. That combination is the oldest trout presentation in this state and it still beats almost everything else on a slow morning. Keep the Gulp crawler for the trip you didn't stop for worms, or for when the water is clear enough that a fish gets a long look — it doesn't die in a hot truck, and it's still good in October.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNow the part that matters most at Strawberry, and it's the reason this rig uses a single hook. Every cutthroat between 15 and 22 inches has to be released, and the rulebook counts any trout with cutthroat characteristics as a cutthroat — so you will be letting fish go, whether you planned to or not. A scented bait on a treble gets swallowed, and a fish hooked in the throat or the gills doesn't survive being unhooked no matter how careful you are. A single baitholder sets in the corner of the jaw, backs out with one twist, and the fish swims off. That's not a preference. On this water it's the difference between following the rule and just appearing to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBefore you go: the limit is 4 trout or kokanee combined, no more than 2 of them cutthroat under 15 inches and no more than 1 over 22, and trout and salmon can't be filleted or have heads or tails removed in the field. Tributaries have their own rules. Check the current Utah Fishing Guidebook before you keep anything — these change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRig includes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSufix 100% Fluorocarbon Invisiline Leader — 6 lb, 33 yd\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEgg Sinkers — 3\/8 oz, 8 pc.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBarrel Swivel — Black, Size 7\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEagle Claw Baitholder Hook — Size 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerkley Gulp! 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