I too have had a tough time locating fish this year.I’m not a big fan of trolling,but it’s the one thing I can do to pick up a couple fish.Hope someone can tell us whats going on…
one thing that could change the way its fish in the reintroduction of a very large bio mass of rainbows over the last 3 year this may change the way the the cuts are force to feed see how far the cut numbers are down think about the impact all the little bow have had now they are getting bigger this is part of what you are seeing its been changing for years now
If you look back to some older posts i have said this same thing for about 2 years now ever scents they change the way they was planting the bows thats why i have it already figure out ive just had a long time to do it
the secret to the berry this year is… is… is… uuuugghh thud. _________________________________________________________________________________________
I’ve honestly never been a huge fan of the berry except in the spring time and fallish time. Summer days with what I consider good fishing are probably 1/10 trips. In the summer time generally speaking it’s the way you guys are saying…about 8 fish from 2 people in like 5 or 6 hours. It’s just slow. I’ve not noticed changes in the berry this year (I only have been there once), but over the last few years it has changed DRASTICALLY. First of all, several years ago we used to ALWAYS anchor down and fish and do good. Now, that never works…generally we drift fish now and that’s the only way we do good. There’s only 1 spot we anchor down now in and do good sometimes. And the rainbows in particular are MUCH smaller than a few years ago. i’m not sure if it got fished out pretty good or if the fish have found new hard channels to get to, maybe like under cut rocks/caves in the water we can’t get to or what.
I don’t know what you mean about smaller cut throats and how that would make it harder on them. I’ve caught ranbows last year slightly bigger than planter size (like 12-13 inches) and actually have had 24+ inch cut throats try at make them their dinner as I bring them in.
one thing that could change the way its fish in the reintroduction of a very large bio mass of rainbows over the last 3 year this may change the way the the cuts are force to feed see how far the cut numbers are down think about the impact all the little bow have had now they are getting bigger this is part of what you are seeing its been changing for years now
If you look back to some older posts i have said this same thing for about 2 years now ever scents they change the way they was planting the bows thats why i have it already figure out ive just had a long time to do it
So, you are saying, they have added a bunch of rainbow, and this is why no one is catching the normal numbers? Why is it no one is catching large numbers of Rainbows then?[crazy]
My answer (after being there all last weekend)…Location, maybe. And WATER TEMP. With all this heat, they are grouping in deeper, cooler water.
I don’t know what he means either but honestly Strawberry isn’t set up very well for rainbows. The fish planted in strawberry are sterile and can’t reproduce. That means ones they’re bigger and are caught and kept or flat out die there’s no new ones to come in. However the cutthroats I believe can reproduce and even if they can’t, most of them u have to let go and so the cut throats grow easier and there’s more of them. Even a 24 inch cut throat can make a easy meal of the planter rainbows. Hence less rainbows.