04-30-2016, 05:39 AM
I made an impromptu trip to Strawberry this evening. First I drove to the Strawberry Bay marina. I didn't see any ice, but there were also no docks and it was kind of windy so I continued around to the Renegade launch. No ice and no docks there either. I got onto the water about 6:30.
I saw lots of fish on the finder out in 30FOW suspended around 20'. It was windy enough to make still fishing/jigging difficult, so I tried trolling across them. I tried all different speeds and lures, and caught one 17" rainbow on a small rainbow rapala.
Later the wind calmed down and I tried casting and jigging several tubes and spoons tipped with nightcrawler. I only ever got one 19" cutthroat to hit on a 3.5" green tube.
It's been slow fishing so far this year, but it was still nice to be out there.
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I saw lots of fish on the finder out in 30FOW suspended around 20'. It was windy enough to make still fishing/jigging difficult, so I tried trolling across them. I tried all different speeds and lures, and caught one 17" rainbow on a small rainbow rapala.
Later the wind calmed down and I tried casting and jigging several tubes and spoons tipped with nightcrawler. I only ever got one 19" cutthroat to hit on a 3.5" green tube.
It's been slow fishing so far this year, but it was still nice to be out there.
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