09-10-2007, 12:49 AM
We were having a pretty good day (nothing like Randy was doing however) until someone flipped the switch at about 10:30. There were three of us on my boat and we all landed between 15 and 20 fish. It was especially frustrating to have the biting end so abruptly because the guy who is in charge of turning on the wind at Strawberry at 11:00 AM overslept for about an hour and a half. We saw some fish on the finder after that, but got very few fish and only landed one other fish until we called it a day around 3:45 PM. I asked Randy (N.E.T.O) how many he had caught when they headed out and he said that he had caught his age (46) and his cousin had caught 42, which aint bad for a few hours of fishing. We also bent down our barbs, which undoubtedly contributed to a few lost fish, but it was well worth it, because of how much easier it is to release the fish. I have bent my barbs down often in the past and I believe that I will do it on almost all fishing trips from now on.
[signature]
[signature]