04-11-2015, 09:11 PM
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]I took my 12 and 7 year old grand daughters to Strawberry today. I learned a couple new lessons and I've fished Strawberry for fifty two years.
Lesson #1: The water temperature was 38 degrees. At that temperature the fish are still in their suspended animation mode of winter even though the ice is gone and the sun is warm and shining bright.
Lesson #2: This is the earliest I have ever been to Strawberry. The man running the store at the Strawberry Marina explained the lake is a month ahead of a normal year. It is like May 10 would be. Even though the ice is gone doesn't mean the fish will bite. I watched a decent cutt follow my power bait to the boat very slowly. It wasn't interested in the lunch we offered!
The grand daughters each caught one rainbow! Six hours! No cutts! Similar story with a float tuber, a shore fisherman and the other boat I saw. Very Slow! Beautiful day on the lake. We watched a huge section of the lake totally de ice in the slight breeze. I've never seen that before. The girls were way excited about the two fish they caught. They were very excited when I got a rainbow to the surface and my hook came off. I explained, "That is OK! Now we know there is at least one fish still in Strawberry for sure. The fish in the photo weighed 5 1/2 lb. It was the man in the other boat who caught it. My grand daughter just wanted to show off his fish.
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]I took my 12 and 7 year old grand daughters to Strawberry today. I learned a couple new lessons and I've fished Strawberry for fifty two years. Lesson #1: The water temperature was 38 degrees. At that temperature the fish are still in their suspended animation mode of winter even though the ice is gone and the sun is warm and shining bright.
Lesson #2: This is the earliest I have ever been to Strawberry. The man running the store at the Strawberry Marina explained the lake is a month ahead of a normal year. It is like May 10 would be. Even though the ice is gone doesn't mean the fish will bite. I watched a decent cutt follow my power bait to the boat very slowly. It wasn't interested in the lunch we offered!
The grand daughters each caught one rainbow! Six hours! No cutts! Similar story with a float tuber, a shore fisherman and the other boat I saw. Very Slow! Beautiful day on the lake. We watched a huge section of the lake totally de ice in the slight breeze. I've never seen that before. The girls were way excited about the two fish they caught. They were very excited when I got a rainbow to the surface and my hook came off. I explained, "That is OK! Now we know there is at least one fish still in Strawberry for sure. The fish in the photo weighed 5 1/2 lb. It was the man in the other boat who caught it. My grand daughter just wanted to show off his fish.
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