Strawberry 10-17-25

[obifishkenobi]

A little late giving a report but figured some may benefit from it.  Obfishkenobi and I fished Strawberry in the Renegade area.  The catching was constant from early morning until we quit around 3:30 PM.  As is often the case at Strawberry, I marked few fish on the fish finder.  I spot locked in an area that has treated me well, in the fall, in years past.  We fished one rod with a bobber (tube jig was only down ~3-4') and we then usually dropped one jig straight down.  Getting a bite on the bobber rig was a given, on every cast, and often almost as soon as the bobber hit the water. 

We caught four rainbows and two slot busters.  The largest we caught was at least 21" (we only measured one fish, and it was 21"). 

The wind was constant and approaching white-cap stage.  After fighting the wind for several hours, I moved us partially into a bay, which was a little protected from the wind and the catching continued.

Nearly all of our fish were caught on cut-bait chubs from Lost Creek.  Just before we quit fishing, I didn't want to open another bag of chubs, so I tried 1/2 of a crawler and also caught fish on them.  

It is fun to fish Strawberry in the fall, because it rarely disappoints and they fight much harder in the cooler water.

Another enjoyable outing with Shawn.

Thanks for hosting me Kent, as always it was fun, Kent keeps an accurate count with his clicker and his personal count for the day was 83 and I didn’t even try to keep count but was catching them at the same rate as him, so our total count was over 160 for the day, believe it or not it was not our fastest day, we have approached 200 fish in the past. Kent is a master of fall cutthroat fishing at Strawberry. I’m going back on November 1st. To put some kids on fish.