Strawberry - Oct 9th

[OCF]

Went to Strawberry today. Arrived at Strawberry Marina around 8:00 a.m. & headed over to the meadows. We fished until 2:00 p.m. and caught 16 cutts all within the slot. The 30 mph wind made the fishing extremely difficult and it was cold, cold, cold.

The first 2 hours were the best. My rookie son-in-law did extremely well with a chartruese w/tiger stripe "Jakes" lure. He was hooking up every few minutes & long lining about 200 ft behind the boat. That was the only lure that produced consistantly. Also tried LC pointer, RMT spoons, Rapalas, & daredevils and would catch one here and there.

Water temp was 47 degrees.

When we were heading back to the marina, we had 3-4 foot waves crashing over the bow & we both ended up getting fairly wet - be careful out there!
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[flygoddess]

What about the Algae Bloom? I saw pictures from a couple of days ago and it is THICK!
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[OCF]

The algae is about the same as in years past. Definitely alot of algae; however, the surface was mixed up due to the wind.
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[flygoddess]

Worth hitting tomorrow in a pontoon?
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[OCF]

Yes - If the wind is not blowing!
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[flygoddess]

Hear that! not suppose to, or at least not 27 gusts like today.
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[ReelMasta]

I'll be there in the AM. Hoping to be in the marina by 6:30. Anyone sees me hollar out!

Masta.
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[flygoddess]

Very nice boat. Wish I had saw this earlier so I could have kept an eye out.

We launched about 7:30. It was 21 degrees with a breeze and a few gusts, but I have been on much worse.
We went to Bryants Fork (I guess that is what it is called)
Headed North and was getting into fish out of the gate. Most in the 30' to 40' area and FAST strips.

BIG FLIES also.
I used a Bright Pink Woolly Bugger dropper on all set-ups and although no takes, I do think it was an attractor.
We were there for 4 hours and 16 fish all over 20". Some very thin.







My bags are 21" long:




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[OCF]

Nice job! The weather looked a hole lot better than the day before. I am glad it worked out for you.

In the future, I use to launch a pontoon above the outlet tunnel (just south of Bryants Fork) and traveled east on the south shore. There is a little bay that heads south. I used to nail some nice fish (better than average) in this bay during the months of Oct. & Nov. Kind of a long kick on a pontoon, just right if you have an electric motor.
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[chinook]

I like the idea of an attractor with a trailing fly. I have used white at the dropper with black or brown as the fly they hit the most. I tried a black zonker for the first time and it was great.

Just curious, what did you use as the trailing fly that they liked?

When I was fishing just east of Renegade in my kick boat I noticed that they wanted it fast over there as well. Caught a few and then stepped up the retrieve and troll and wham wham. The fish wanted faster.

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[flygoddess]

Yeah Renegade, they are ready to party. We went there last year at this time. I am thinking shallow and slow...One or two. Then the wind picked up and I was now in 40' and cruising. I was getting as fish every cast. Fast sinking line, but several were right after I cast out so they were all levels.

Okay, I do a 6' to 8' piece of Fluoro. I fold it in half, but one side is at least a foot shorter. I put a loop in the bend of the fluoro and do the loop to loop right to the fly line. I was putting the big HAIR bug on the longer and the HOT PINK woolly on the shorter. The Woolly was small however. Like on a #12 streamer hook.
So it did appear like a sculpin or bait fish was chasing a pink worm I guess.
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