07-02-2007, 07:21 PM
Vertically jigging Strawberry with anyone other than MGB (including or perhaps especially me) will likely result in fishing with someone who believes or hopes that they know how to vertically jig it. If you are fortunate enough to fish it with MGB you will be vertically jigging with someone who knows how to catch fish up there vertically jigging. Mike will spend hours if necessary looking for the fish. The rest of us usually don't have that much patience and also we will bag vertically jigging and start to troll if vertically jigging is slow for us. Did you try trolling deeper than the top 4 feet of water? If not, I bet that they could have also been caught at depths of up to at least 45 feet deep. One way to find a good place to try vertically jigging is to troll a little deeper and if you catch a few fish in an area stop and vertically jig that area.
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