07-04-2007, 10:58 PM
Arrived at Strawberry Bay at 6:30 a.m. and fished until after 11:00 a.m. with my son. Caught 21 fish trolling; four cutts under the slot limit, four Kokes about 2.5 lbs a piece and the remaining were cutts in the slot. Caught most of the fish with down riggers at 40 feet. Also picked up three sets of doubles on one pole; an all time record for me. (You can generally tell how good the fishing is by how many doubles you get. We had one spoon at 36 and the other at 40 feet) Saw alot of fish early at 20 feet, could never get any of these to bite. By the size of the schools, I thought they might be kokes?? When the schools moved to 40 feet (at about 9:30) we started picking up the kokes using mostly RMT dodgers and spoons. The bite was over at 10:30. The weather was beautiful and suprisingly not many people on the pond for the 4th.
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