went to the berry today 25 apirl 12 got there about 9:00 first stop one bit spent 20 min no bits move to ladders area 30 mins 2 bits no fish 3 stop found the fish less then a 15 feet off the bank and the bait had to be dragged across the bottom slowly got 30 fish one slot buster cut another that was close 5 keeper size bows and another 17 cuts the rest was smaller bows left this spot by 1:00 went strait to deer creek this was slow fishing maybe 20 total in 2.5 hours in between 2 of us
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Glad you got into the fish at Strawberry. We use to catch them slow dragging a night crawler the bottom quite a bit as well. It seemed to work when they needed some movement and just sitting wasn't getting it done.
It was years ago. I haven't tried that in long time.
Were you guys using minnows or something else?
I like hearing about different types of tactics.... thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for the tip... I went to Strawberry Saturday for the first time ever... Learned a lot... What a great area and pretty site seeing...
Going to add this tip to my bag..
Thanks
Going back soon I hope
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another way i found to work very well is a crawler about 8 feet below a small casting bubble with no other weight so it sinks very slow and drifting we have gotten into many larger cuts like this the small bubble gets it down far enough that the worm will drag just off the bottom with out get snagged up the big boys love this look ( big chub minnows work well like this also)
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On the Strawberry side the chance of catching a slot cutt is quite high. When slow-drifted, those cutts swallow nightcrawlers so deeply that I have virtually stopped fishing that way. Don't get me wrong, it works - and it's totally, completely ethical, but after cutting the line so many times and watching bleeders swim away, I've almost gone exclusively to artificials or a jig tipped with bait.
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i dont use this method any more either but it is very effective
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A circle hook will help to elliminate the deep hooking of fish caught on bait............The circle hook will catch them in the corner of the mouth almost every time.
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