08-15-2021, 07:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-15-2021, 08:00 AM by sanitarymechanic.)
(08-15-2021, 04:29 AM)Jig-fisher Wrote:(08-15-2021, 01:25 AM)sanitarymechanic Wrote: 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.Thanks for posting. You didn't do too bad. Tipping with chub or sucker will improve your odds.
I had not thought of sucker meat. Are you talking regular Utah sucker like what can be caught in the Jordan River?
(08-15-2021, 02:08 AM)kentofnsl Wrote:(08-15-2021, 01:25 AM)sanitarymechanic Wrote: We started out in Strawberry bay casting tube jigs tipped with a worm as suggested by KentOfNSL
Sorry, but you must of misread my post. I would tip with a worm as a last resort. Cut-bait chub is my go-to bait.
How deep of water were you anchored over?
We didn't really anchor it was a calm morning. We started about 40 feet. Eventually drifted in to about 15 feet. It seems like I read a post from you last year titled "they're predicting an early winter" or something like that where you talked about using tube jigs tipped with a worm. Maybe I mixed what you said in that post with other things I researched over the last month's (was going to go out last fall but my boat gave me some ignition problems that took me some time to figure out). I had read your post last week where you said chub meat was best, I just didn't have any chub meat.