05-07-2006, 05:05 AM
Frozenover and I went to Strawberry today to try fishing from float tubes. We went down close to the dam on the Solder Creek side.
We were on the water just at day break. We were both excited about the prospects of catching a lot of fish.
We have wanted to fish ice off for the last few years and were just not able to. So this year we made a point to make there.
Judging from some of the reports, we were expecting to do very well.
It just didn't happen.
I caught 4 fish, two 21" cutts, a smaller cutt and one rainbow.
James caught one cutt.
We caught the most on minnows. We tried most every thing we had with not much luck.
The wind started blowing fairly early, which made it a little difficult to detect the bites.
I finally found a spot at the end of the day that produced bites on every cast and then I ran out of minnows.
Most of the people we saw casting from shore didn't do much better. We only saw two other fish caught.
From the looks of the number of people fishing at the Ladders and CCE, maybe we should have tried it there. Either would have been a far easier launch than the hike we took to get to the water on the SC side.
We will be back to try our hand at float tubing on Strawberry again.
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We were on the water just at day break. We were both excited about the prospects of catching a lot of fish.
We have wanted to fish ice off for the last few years and were just not able to. So this year we made a point to make there.
Judging from some of the reports, we were expecting to do very well.
It just didn't happen.
I caught 4 fish, two 21" cutts, a smaller cutt and one rainbow.
James caught one cutt.
We caught the most on minnows. We tried most every thing we had with not much luck.
The wind started blowing fairly early, which made it a little difficult to detect the bites.
I finally found a spot at the end of the day that produced bites on every cast and then I ran out of minnows.
Most of the people we saw casting from shore didn't do much better. We only saw two other fish caught.
From the looks of the number of people fishing at the Ladders and CCE, maybe we should have tried it there. Either would have been a far easier launch than the hike we took to get to the water on the SC side.
We will be back to try our hand at float tubing on Strawberry again.
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