Experimenting at Strawberry

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I fished Strawberry with one of my fishing buddies on Wednesday. I often experiment and this trip was no exception. It is not uncommon to see one or more other cutthroat follow a hooked cutthroat all the way to the surface, so I figured the odds of catching a second or even a third trout, on the same line, by adding other jigs, would be good. I have tried using three jigs while ice fishing. I found that my catch rate (for trout) didn't seem to be as good as when I just fished with one jig; however, my catch rate for hooking the ice hole, while landing a fish, went up substantially! This trip, I decided to try two fligs and one jig (on the bottom for weight) on a couple rods to see if it worked any better from my boat. I seemed to get the same number of bites as while fishing with just one jig and I caught two cutthroat, on the same line, on two different occasions.

Because I was fishing with three rigs I decided to also experiment using night crawlers and cut bait simultaneously. On multiple occasions, I would put 1/2 of a night crawler on one rig and cut bait on the other two rigs. I would also switch the order, because I noticed I was catching many more fish on the bottom jig. The end result, for the day, was I caught 2 cutthroat caught on night crawlers and 108 cutthroat caught on cut bait (chubs from Lost Creek). This result did not surprise me.

Wow, Great report Kent. You sure do slay the cutts up there.

Drop shotting the tube jig has caught me plenty, maybe I will try a jig on the bottom instead of a weight this next weekend.  It will be our first time up there this year.

You going to be up there?

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