Fishing Forum

My business partner and I managed to get to Strawberry this morning early- we were sitting in the boat waiting to get enough light to fish by. Temp was a cool 16 degrees. We fished the southern end and caught 19 using pointer minnows - ghost colors in 78sp size tossed into water so shallow we'd pucker and see our $15.00 going down the drain each time we casted. Fortunately we didn't lose any, but did have to make a couple of fish net retrievals. After the sun got on the water we switched to 4" white tube jigs with 3/8 oz walleye jig heads and caught another 29 faaat cuts before we left just before noon. Water temp is down to around 45. Most fish we jigged up were suspended from 8-12 feet, so the breeze in combination with the light jig heads and just enough line out produced a consistent bites, we probably missed another 15 or 20 fish. Great day, going again tomorrow - get out while the water is soft.
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Did you have any bait (night crawlers or chub meat) on the jigs, or were you just jigging with the bare jigs?

Also, where were you on Strawberry? I'm taking my 8 year old tomorrow and want to catch a bunch of fish. We won't get there until about 2pm and will fish 'till dark. I'd imagine we'll catch a bunch of good ones though.

Thanks for the report,
Curtis
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We moved around a little but all on the very south end, strawberry side. We used a little crawdaddy smelly jelly, but that was all that was needed.
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