Headed up to Strawberry Monday morning. Air temperature was -15 when we arrived around 7:30. No ice tent but the four of us stayed warm enough. I hooked up fairly quick but it was a long line release. One of my friends got a bite fairly quickly too but didn’t hook up. In the first hour I was the only one who caught some fish. I landed two around the 18-19" range and had another foul hooked that came off as I pulled him up through the hole…thought he was a BIG one until we noticed the foul hooking. No one else was catching so they started drilling on the various sides of me to no avail. Finally half the group headed aways across the bay and one of them caught one over 22" and another in the slot. The friend that stayed with me caught one when he drilled a hole next to me but that was all so we headed over to join the other two in our party. I think I had one on that got off over there and one more good bite but that was it for the day. One guy in our group got zero bites all day. We were fishing with shiner and chub and waxies on various white jigs.
It was kinda dissapointing because only a week earlier a group of three of us caught around 10 each with many more bites and long line releases until the biting shut off abruptly. We were hoping for a similiar day. Can’t wait to go back. I was surprised by the big difference between the two weeks. Also, there was only one other party in the bay we were fishing so I thought it was going to be an awesome day. Still beats work, etc. so I am not complaining
Our day yesterday was quite similar to yours.
We didn’t get anything to the surface, between ChubbyFish, his son and myself. We saw fish, many just cruising through. But I had more than enough little bumps to keep it interesting. Just no solid takers. Not even enough to rip off a waxie most of the time.
One of those slow, “not too interested” bite days for the fish.
Sometimes we win, sometimes they do!
we also fished monday. we took the snowmobile and two ice tents over towards bryants fork. you may have seen us go accross the bay with two on the machine and two on the sleds. my one brother and i did pretty good in our tent, while my dad and other brother struggled in thiers. we fished like ten feet apart and used the same baits. thats just how fishing is i guess. (although i usually credit my mad skills!) we didnt see a lot of fish on the finder, but seemed to get the ones that did come through. we moved three times trying to find good numbers of fish, but never did. biggest fish was 24 inches and 4 lbs, 4oz. all fish were released.
