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HA69 and I fished strawberry today from 7:00am-8:30pm. The weather was great, not too cold in the morning and the water was smooth most of the day except a slight breeze in the afternoon. The fishing was fantastic, it was the best day we have ever had. The fishing was non stop except for a couple hours in the afternoon we boated over 80 fish and that is most likely an understatment. All but a couple fish where caught jigging with various jiggs. HA69 caught a couple rainbows and I caught a 22" and a 26" cutt. We boated several 19" and 20" cutts. All fish where released.
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The first picture is a cutt that has a damaged back. The second picture is a cutt that was caught on one of nomoose crawdad jiggs, those jiggs worked great today. The forth picture is the 22" cutt that I caught. The fifth & sixth picture is the 24" cutt that I caught.
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[cool]Wow. Nice fish, Mike! Sounds like you guys really tore it up out there! Been thinkin' about it for a long time, and I think I've gotta get me some of them Nomoose Crawdad jigs!
I'm not a biologist, but I wonder if that fish with the messed up back may have whirling disease?
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Wow. NICE fish, Mike!
I haven't seen cutts that big in my few years in Utah.
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Our first thoughts where that the fish had whirling disease but we where not sure.
If a fish does have whirling disease does the back hook to the side? This fish its back close to the tail hooked downward.
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my neighbor was up there yesterday too said it was excellent fishing nice pics
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Man you guys rock!!! Sounds like it was an awesome day on the water. Thanks for the report, and sharing the pics.
I highly doubt a fish of that size has whirling disease. It usually kills them when they are much smaller, like 6-8 inches. It was probabaly just a congenital defect.
Good luck on your next trip!
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Awesome Trip Mike . Fishing was a blast with some nice hogs . Can't think of a better way to spend sunrise to sunset . I nailed a nice 20" cutt as soon as I boarded the boat on my first cast at the marina . Most fish run in the 18" to 20" but nice and fat . I think the fish count could of been at least 100 , but too hard to keep track . LOL Man , I sleep good last night .
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Way to knockem dead! I am so jealous!I was up there yesterday at the dam and not even a bite!
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Sorry to hear that you had no luck . Most fish we caught were in 40' of water away from shore for us , but early morning and evening they seemed to be closer to shore . The dam area usually is good bet . Did you see any bright red Kokes close to shore there ?
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NO the only kokes we saw were at the visitors station.They said its still to soon for them to start showing up.A little colder weather should do it they said.
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Way to go Mike, sounds like a great day on the water.
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Great fish, great pictures, great day! I was stuck at home finishing the basement. I'm jealous..
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