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I have yet to catch a rainbow at strawberry. I have fished in several areas and would like a pm or comment as to where a good or special place is to fish for these "ghost bows".

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Craig, a few suggestions -- it has been my experience that if one trolls the odds of catching a rainbow goes down substantially. Second suggestion is to fish shallow. Third suggestion is to try the Soldier Creek side. I have never understood why, but it seems there are far more rainbows caught on the Soldier Creek side of the reservoir.
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My friend and I were fishing strawberry and caught a couple small rainbows (12") using a rapalla trolling. It was about a 4 inch rapalla that looked like a rainbow trout. Anyway, he caught a 20" rainbow when we had stopped the boat and were jigging off the bottom with a white tube jig and 1/2 nightcrawler. I think the previous poster is right. Trolling isn't going to bag you a lot of rainbows in strawberry.

Good luck !!
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[quote kentofnsl]Craig, a few suggestions -- it has been my experience that if one trolls the odds of catching a rainbow goes down substantially. Second suggestion is to fish shallow. Third suggestion is to try the Soldier Creek side. I have never understood why, but it seems there are far more rainbows caught on the Soldier Creek side of the reservoir.[/quote]

My experience is absolutely the opposite, troll for bows! Several weeks ago we caught 24 bows trolling. Zero cutts, all bows. The trick is koke gear and scents.


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Interesting -- sure hasn't been my experience. Were you trolling shallow water?
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No, deeper the better.


-DallanC
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Thanks for the info....I wonder if you could tell me if SC side is better than the main marina?

I fished at both SC all over and berry marina, ladders etc and just haven't caught 1 yet.

Must be the spinners or such
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At the berry bows are all over, in the right areas first if you want bows from 7" to 12" look in the backs of the coves in water less then 15' and along the shore line...

For bows try along just off shore in 20'+ feet almost right on the bottom just out side the moss or grass line for the bigger bows, and in the trench from the ladders out to 40' deep with gulp minnows or tubes and a worm, or your cheese baits...
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Sunday in the wind and rain I caught them casting from shore with a curly tail jig and no bait . About 15 dinks is all with a few cutts in the mix . I was casting over deep water by the dam . They were shallow over deep water .
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[font "Times New Roman"][#000000]It seems like trolling catches more 'bows for me too up there. That is how I got them a couple weeks ago. And like the other post said, the smaller lures worked better while trolled slowly. [/#000000][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][#000000]I agree with Bassrods too, like he said. I have done it that way with tube jigs and casting like that a little deeper. If I want 'bows at the Berry or somewhere else I always find a point or pile of rocks or something with a deepr drop-off around it. I move around and see if the finder is showing fish. If so I try for them. [/#000000][/font]
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I appriciate the words of wisdom. I will have to keep moving around and looking for the right hook-up. Thanks again

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I seem to catch more Rainbows trolling in the trench off of the ladders and bigger ones that seem to hold on the old dam. I troll deeper for bigger fish with flashers and worms or Koke gear.
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Ideas I have not tried. Thanks for the info..What color flasher do you use. Where is this trench and old dam/

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The RMT squids and dodgers are death on bows! Pinks, oranges, and pearls are good bow colors and pink/silver 50/50 and hyper-plaid dodgers trolled about 1.8 mph with Carp spit on the squids.[]
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Almost everytime i go to strawberry we get bows we fish the strawberry side only it took a while to figure them out but we get a good big ones every year (over 5 Pounds) ive found that jigs produce the best where we go
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