Some firsts at Strawberry today

[Kent]

Fished Strawberry today with my cousin. We first started off fishing with fresh red shiner minnows. The trout weren't interested but we caught about a 10 inch chub on a minnow! I had never seen that before. We tried bait fishing next to all of the other boats in Indian Creek Bay for a short time, and I would have landed one fish had I tied a good knot. We then bagged that and went trolling. Trolling was slow until we found them about a mile and half out from Strawberry Marina. Had it not been for my GPS I don't think we would have caught nearly as many. With it we were able to troll through the same area and keep catching fish. My other first was catching several fish on a separate leader that I slid down my line on the downrigger. I set the downrigger at 40 feet, deeper than I have ever run it at Strawberry, then I snapped on a second leader, approximately 20" long, onto my line and it would go down to about 20'. I was catching them on both lures. I caught my fish on frog flatfish, crawlers for a short time, and minnows. My cousin caught his on a Carter Spoon and a crawler behind a dodger. He was using leaded line and would go out anywhere from four to six colors. The wind didn't even blow up there today, and we only got sprinkled on. It would have been a perfect day had my trolling motor not quit on us.
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