02-18-2007, 09:14 PM
I can't figure out what is going on up there this year! I haven't even bothered posting any reports from my last 6 or 7 fishing trips to Strawberry over the last 6 weeks because they were so uneventful. We averaged about 2-3 fish per person over 4-5 hours of fishing. Using everything in the box for jigs and different bait. Last year on the ice it was considered "slow" fishing if everyone in the group didn't catch 8 or 10 fish each and a good day was 15-20 fish each.
Seems like there are not many fish on the finder this year and even more strange than that is the fact that only about 2 in every 10 fish seen on the finder seem to even want to hit. I can watch them on the finder come and check out the jigs on both of my poles and then swim off. The ones that do hit only give you 1 or maybe 2 chances at them. In past years you could swing and miss 7 or 8 times and they would still give you a chance to hook them.
I can't figure out what the deal is. We have fished 5 or 6 different locations and depths from 15 feet to 46 feet and nothing seems to work. The water is up about 8-10 feet from last winter and maybe it has moved the fish into new areas of the lake. But nobody seems to be really getting into them. Anyone have any idea's what happened to Strawberry. I have never been anxious for the ice to melt but this year I am ready for it so I can get my boat on the pond and go on a fish hunting mission to see where they are!
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Seems like there are not many fish on the finder this year and even more strange than that is the fact that only about 2 in every 10 fish seen on the finder seem to even want to hit. I can watch them on the finder come and check out the jigs on both of my poles and then swim off. The ones that do hit only give you 1 or maybe 2 chances at them. In past years you could swing and miss 7 or 8 times and they would still give you a chance to hook them.
I can't figure out what the deal is. We have fished 5 or 6 different locations and depths from 15 feet to 46 feet and nothing seems to work. The water is up about 8-10 feet from last winter and maybe it has moved the fish into new areas of the lake. But nobody seems to be really getting into them. Anyone have any idea's what happened to Strawberry. I have never been anxious for the ice to melt but this year I am ready for it so I can get my boat on the pond and go on a fish hunting mission to see where they are!
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