09-25-2005, 03:30 AM
Fished Strawberry today with my dad and my two sons (age 6 and 2) The wind had already put a chop on the water at 7:00AM and it got progressively worse throughout the morning. MGB had mentioned in a post that he had found some school of fish around Mud Creek so we headed that direction looking for fish. We threw white tube jigs out the back about the time we passed mosquito bay and trolled around toward mud creek watching the sonar for any schools of fish. Well we never really found any thick schools of fish but we caught plenty of fish trolling tube jigs. After awhile we found an area that we caught several fish in (but not really seeing many on the finder) so we anchored there and vertical jigged. We caught several more fish in about 15 minutes before the wind intensified and the anchor wouldn't hold us any longer. So we just let the tube jigs trail behind the boat as the wind blew us and we caught several more fish that way. By 10:30 it was white capping pretty good and my kids were tired and cold and ready to go home. We landed about 20 fish (all slot cutts except for one 13 incher) and had many short and long distance releases when the kids where reeling in the fish and would let slack get in the line. All in all another excellent day on the pond. I could do without the wind but the colors up there are amazing right now and whats better than fishing with your dad and your kids and watching them all have a blast reeling in fish. Stopped at the visitor center and there are lots of red kokes in the river. very cool to go and watch.
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