08-15-2021, 01:25 AM
I fished Strawberry, with my brother and our wives,from 7am until about 4:30 from my boat. We started out in Strawberry bay casting tube jigs tipped with a worm as suggested by KentOfNSL, as seen on YouTube with Don Alphin (please forgive if I've miss spelled), and a few others. They make it look/sound idiot proof. Well....I must be the improved idiot because it didn't work for me. I tried vertically jigging, casting out and reeling slow, casting and reeling fast, casting and reeling with a jigging motion, dropping to the bottom then reeling up and staying still, dropping to the bottom and jigging. After an hour we decided to motor over to Chicken Creek. We started long line trolling with orange blade Panther Martin's, Thomas Cyclone spoons, Firetiger Mepps Cyclops, whatever everyone had in their tackle box. The Thomas Cyclone spoon was the biggest producer. We started trolling at about 1.3 to 2mph by the app on my cell phone after the cell phone died we just went by feel of the rod and tone of the kicker motor. We came home with one Cutthroat under the slot and eleven rainbows.