Strawberry Fall Fishing - 10/25

[MWScott72]

Convinced my BIL Kevin to take his boat out today.  After checking in with a couple folks, decided to fish Strawberry.  I wasn’t hopeful for fillets, but was expecting to get a lot of tugs.  Started about 8:45 off Renegade in 20-25” of water.  Didn’t mark a ton of fish (maybe due to all the algae in the water?) but they were there.  Fished until 2pm and landed around 50.  Kevin was having issues setting the hook due a pretty acute case of tennis elbow, but he still got 25-30.  All but one were cutts in the 17-20” range.  No slot busters…biggest was 21”+.  Used white tube jigs tipped with salted chub.  Vertical jigging at first…later was casting and retrieving.  Both worked.  Second pole was a bobber with Shawn’s white with red flake Gizzilla tippped with chub about 2-3’ below the bobber.  The bobber was probably the most effective.  Weather was phenomenal with a light breeze until 1:30 when the wind picked up.  Still, no whitecaps when we left at 2pm so still fishable.

[obifishkenobi]

Convinced my BIL Kevin to take his boat out today.  After checking in with a couple folks, decided to fish Strawberry.  I wasn’t hopeful for fillets, but was expecting to get a lot of tugs.  Started about 8:45 off Renegade in 20-25” of water.  Didn’t mark a ton of fish (maybe due to all the algae in the water?) but they were there.  Fished until 2pm and landed around 50.  Kevin was having issues setting the hook due a pretty acute case of tennis elbow, but he still got 25-30.  All but one were cutts in the 17-20” range.  No slot busters…biggest was 21”+.  Used white tube jigs tipped with salted chub.  Vertical jigging at first…later was casting and retrieving.  Both worked.  Second pole was a bobber with Shawn’s white with red flake Gizzilla tippped with chub about 2-3’ below the bobber.  The bobber was probably the most effective.  Weather was phenomenal with a light breeze until 1:30 when the wind picked up.  Still, no whitecaps when we left at 2pm so still fishable.

Great report, I’m glad you guys got into them.

[lovetofish]

Nothing compares to the fall fishing at Strawberry. It's usually fast and furious even though you probably have to throw most of the fish back but it's fun catching them. The Cutts fight better this time of year too.