09-07-2006, 03:08 AM
Fished Strawberry with my wife yesterday. Don't often get a chance to get out fishing with her (her choice), so I especially enjoy those rare times that we get out together. My second trip in a row to Strawberry that I didn't even fire up the trolling motor. Vertically jigged the whole trip. MGB, maybe there is hope after all for me.[
] Rigged my wife up with a slip bobber so that the jig was just above the bottom in 34 feet of water. That worked well, because she could just watch the bobber and know when she was getting a bite. Only problem was the bobber kept getting too close to the boat, which made it hard to see, and difficult to set the hook. We caught enough fish to make it interesting, and for some strange reason I had an extremely difficult time hooking them early, and later they would tap it once or twice really light and not come back for more. Put some new badly-needed carpet on the trailer, while the boat was in the water.
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] Rigged my wife up with a slip bobber so that the jig was just above the bottom in 34 feet of water. That worked well, because she could just watch the bobber and know when she was getting a bite. Only problem was the bobber kept getting too close to the boat, which made it hard to see, and difficult to set the hook. We caught enough fish to make it interesting, and for some strange reason I had an extremely difficult time hooking them early, and later they would tap it once or twice really light and not come back for more. Put some new badly-needed carpet on the trailer, while the boat was in the water.[signature]