strawberry Saturday morning and planes

[UThunting]

fast bite but lost most fish..

Planes made it inteteresting..
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[talyn]

Cool video of the planes. Heading up tomorrow, was expecting more smoke on the lake but it looks good in your video and pics.

[UThunting]

it was great no smoke but very very light ash on the water. fishing really slowed down for me at about 9 or 10am but I did see others catching fish after that as did I but the bite really slowed down. kokes where about 40' and color was not as picky before 10a.m at least for me I was using lead line and about 6 to 8 colors of line out with pink, orange silver and blue Dodgers or several different pop gears, most squids where pink green or multi color topped with nightcrawlers or a fake wax (crappie) wax worm. I think down riggers helped as when I would hook a fish I had so much line out it took me a few min to reel it all in and lost many fish in the process I think down riggers use less line. also I used one pole with a rubber snubber and one without and did not notice a catch difference but then again I felt like I was doing something wrong as most bites I quickly and a others right at the boat. Also I did notice more hits with shorter leader from Dodger to squid 8" to 12" but most fish where smaking it from the side causing quicks hits but fewer hook ups.
speed for me was 1.9 to 2.3 and I think if I could have gone slower it would have been better.

most fish where left (east??) out of the strawberry marina.

hope this helps and good luck.
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[jekern1015]

Thats a cool video thanks for sharing
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[UsualSuspect]

Those planes scoop up 16,000 gallons of water in 12 seconds!
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[Lundman]

16000 gallons is way to much weight ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-415

The 415 can scoop up to 6,140 litres (1,620 US gal) of water from a nearby water source, mix it with a chemical foam if desired, and drop it on a fire without having to return to base to refill its tanks.
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[UsualSuspect]

Sorry, one two many zero's. Daughter's boyfriend is fighting the Martin Fire in Nevada. Currently over 400,000 acres, the largest in the US right now. Please have all fire fighters in your thoughts and prayers
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[gmwahl]

400,000 acres? I feel sorry for him!

My paying job is being the Fire chief in Garden City and I can say that NOTHING sucks worse than big wildfires! Small ones are fun and big ones are horrible. It's like digging an endless ditch for a living.
It's hotter than Hades, exhausting like no man can describe, and quite dangerous at times.
Those guys and gals up on the dollar ridge fire (and other fires) are earning every penny of their pay and I hope for their safety and well being.

Mike
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[UsualSuspect]

450,000 acres now. That is roughly 700 square miles. 35% contained.
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