Strawberry Off the charts.

[Bamit]

went to the berry today, it is unbelievable how good it is, went to the back of Strawberry bay and let the wind drift us 2 1/2 inch solid white tubes with a little chubby meat on it is all you need. Fished 4 hours me and my uncle caught 40 + fish it rocks right now. What was cool is all depths, and when you reel in if you watch you can catch the buddies tagging along....took some pics will try and post later..
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[wiperhunter2]

Is the water clearing up yet? Last time I was there the water had a lot of green algae in it. Nice report, thanks for posting
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[AFDan52]

That sounds very inviting.
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[finedesign]

I was there Monday early about 6:30 from the spot I fish from shore. Water has seemed to clear up significantly! I found that I liked it when the water was pea green soup. I would be in the water in my waders and they would follow my jig all the way up till about two feet away from me. Then they would see me and take off. Seems now that it has cleared up, they stay afar off and rarely come up in the open where you can see them from shore. I have fished the Berry from the shore probably 8X's in the last month and had great success. Last time I went up, I wasn't getting close to the same % of bites. Only difference was that the past 7X's I had gone, it was after 12:00 P:M and I fished through the day. This time I was there early and it was almost like they seemed sluggish because of the cold???

Bite wasn't the same, it was like the bite wasn't as aggressive or they were a bit finicky. In the past you could feel a bump....bump...then a quick tighten in the line. The day I went up, it was more like I felt like I was getting snags, but no thumps. Very weird because Strawberry (in the past) has almost always seemed to shut off after 10:30 am.
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[Old_Coot]

Great report. Thanks for posting.
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[fishinfool]

When you headed back Coot?
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[Old_Coot]

Depending on the weather, probably 11th, 12th, or 13th ... next week. Man, this is some fantastic weather for fishing the Berry! You guys wanting ideal Berry fishing, this is the time man!
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[AFDan52]

I'm going to try to get up there myself next week Ralph, now that the boat is fixed .
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[4poundonly]

Very nice[cool] not bad for 4 hours. Would love to see the pics.
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[WIPERFLY]

[quote Bamit]... went to the back of Strawberry bay....[/quote]
Curious. Different people refer to different places as "Strawberry Bay". Some call the bay between the Strawberry Bay Marina and Haws Point Strawberry Bay (personally, I usually refer to that is "East Portal Bay"). Others refer to the area right where the Strawberry River enters the reservoir as "Strawberry Bay". I am curious which you are talking about. I was up there Thursday as well but for me it was a bit on the slow side. I was mainly chucking jigs (not tipped) with the spinning gear and drifting streamers on the flyrod. I spoke to at least 10 other boats and float tubes and they all reported limited success. I started out at East Portal around 8:30 am, then when the fog cleared around 10:30 I jetted over to Indian Creek (or Renegade, or the Meadows... take your pick). Then around 2:00 I motored over to Jake's Bay (or Chicken Creek East)... wow, it seems every spot on that lake has multiple aliases. Anyhow, when all was said and done, I only boated a half dozen fish. It was a little disappointing. Going to try again Sunday. Maybe some cloud cover will get em going for me.
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[perchinski]

I concur with the s-l-o-w-n-e-s-s of today's fishing. Buddy & I fished from 10:30-2:30. Jigged a lot of stuff, including white tubes, managing only 3 fish. Few bumps, fewer follows, fewest hook-ups. Actually did better trolling Pointers back to the dock from Haw's Pt.
Wind/ripple effect may have been a good factor at that time. Didn't have any chub meat, also a probably factor.
Talked to a LOT of boaters & bankers. S-L-O-W day.
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[Jacksonman]

It was extremely SLOW today. Fished last week and caught almost 30 in 5 hours. Today we only landed 12 or so from 7:30 to 3:30. It was 65 degrees when we left. I am blaming it on the combination of high pressure, warm temps and no wind. It was TOO nice today. The fish went back into summer mode. We caught most of our fish in deeper than 40 ft of water. Nothing up shallow today. It was so weird. I think I'll wait for the next front to move in to plan my next fishing trip.

Are we going to get any ice to fish is the big question?!
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[KC5]

Today was hot for us, but other boats caught nothing, one thing we notice was get out of the area's with pea soup, the area's we caught fish there was less algea and moss, second, don't wait around for the fish to find you, move and locate them, third, 2 of us in the boat were catching them the other was not, the reason, good quality poles, the bite is very light in most cases, you need a pole that you can feel everything. these big fish bite amazingly light, you have to be in constant contact with your jig. Once we fished out an area, we moved and would get into them for about 20-30 min then we move! However our last spot lasted 2 hrs, then it shut down. all the fish we caught were in 25-35 feet, once out of that zone, NOTHING. best of luck, the berry will either eat you up or put out generously. we talked with 6 different boats that caught less than 5 fish today, we caught over 60. Pure luck I would say, but luck is better than nothing.
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[Bamit]

Caught 40 more exact same spot exact same stuff, and yes I call the bay from the marina to haws strawberry bay, it is as good as it gets right now. I watched a dozen float tubers catch a few fish, but a tipped white jig is money right now.
I would guess we caught 5-1 from the dozen float tubes and boats around us and one even gave us crap for using "those plastic" thingies, but it is on from 2-5 all you can get with two poles agoing, hard to real with a pole in both hands.
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[ForbiddenX]

I'd love to see a photo of how you rig the tubes with a piece of chub meat?
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[remo_5_0]

Put a piece of chub meat on the hook, fairly easy.
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[tomegun]

The art of drifting at Strawberry. Indian Creek, the Narrows, and right in front of the Marina are great places


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[Bamit]

30 more today in 21/2 hours I caught this monster drifted another 50 yds, went to measure my wifes fish and plop pole overboard I think with an equal or bigger fish doing the pole stealing, if anyone finds a pole with a nice shimmano level wind would love to get it back its west of the marina, east of where everyone parkd across from the portal. The fish weighed 6 lbs, we caught 5 over the slot today, good day.
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