Strawberry 4-11-23

[Kent]

Kory and I had the best trip of the year to Strawberry today.  A little unusual for the catching to improve so late in the ice season.  I was really surprised that my first fish was a 17" kokanee (not common when fishing in only 23' of water).  My third fish was a heavy 19" rainbow.  Both of them volunteered to come home and become sturgeon bait.  Beautiful day and getting around was not a problem (the snow got a little soft by the time we hiked back around 2 PM) with no slush on the surface.  Drilling holes was another story.  Unless I redrilled some holes, that had been recently used, I had to use my chipper bar to break approximately 2" of ice, out of the bottom of the hole, after drilling as far as my auger would reach.

[icerman]

Thanks for the report. Did you catch more than those 2 fish?

[wiperhunter2]

Sounds like a great way to spend a Spring day and catching a koke to boot was icing on the cake, that's a hard feet to accomplish any time you are out there ice fishing on the Berry.

[SkunkedAgain]

Kent hope you enter those in the contest, be fun to see some more trout hit the score board... Congrats on a great trip, sounded like a fun one... Later Jeff

[Kent]

Thanks for the report.  Did you catch more than those 2 fish?

Yes, we caught a total of 60 fish.

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Kent hope you enter those in the contest, be fun to see some more trout hit the score board... Congrats on a great trip, sounded like a fun one... Later Jeff

I was thinking that I should have entered the contest, but alas I hadn't so I didn't take any pictures next to my measuring stick.

[EyLayo]

Hey! Nice job on getting a Strawberry koke. Haven't seen much of them the last couple seasons. Drove past there today. Still people out giving it a shot. Long season.