Strawberry 12-9-05

Utah Fishing Reports & Discussion Utah Fishing General
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Fished the Berry to with Fish4Fun. Wow, what a day! Arrived at 7:00am and drove to the marina, the water was capped as far as I could see with only 1" of ice.

Now the good part. Drove down to Mud Creek and started across the bay drilling holes as we walked further out. We found ice 8" thick in the shallows and any where from 4"-6" in the middle of the bay. We drilled holes in 20’ of water droped our jiggs down and continued slaying them for the next 6 hours. We caught 40 or maybe 50 apiece, the fishing was so fast it was hard to keep track. I caught 6 over the slot and F4F caught as many over the slot as well. Three 24" 4.4 pound cutts where caught today. It seemed that any ice over 4" was capped with additional softer ice but the original 4" was good clear ice.

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Nice fish (slimers) Mike . Looks like it is not crowded either . Wont last now . LOL :face_with_tongue:

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I am not a fish snob. Grad your mittens and your purse and lets go up tomorrow.

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That is awesome man! Nice fish. Thanks for the update. I also heard from the marina today that last night the thing capped over the whole lake. Shouldn’t be long before people are runnin’ machines across the pond.

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Great report, and congrats on some terrific fish. Thanks for sharing. Strawberry is going to be fun this winter.

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Whaaaa Hooooooooo! Thanks for the report and pics. Some real beauties!!! Just have one question… What was the temp when you arrived and when you left. Just wondering if it will be too cold to take one of the kids or not… Are you going up tomorrow? If so I will see you there! Thanks[:)]

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That looks like one awesome day ill be up there sunday hope ypu left some fish LOL thanx for the pictures they where some beautiful fish

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It would be nice to go , but I have a few things I need to take care of tomorrow . I will be on ice somewhere close to home part of the day . [sly]

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What a great day! It don’t get any better than that!

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Thanks for the report!!! Looks like we’re going to be joining you up there tomorrow. Scofield will have to wait.

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Nice fish !

How far out in the bay did you get ? Is where you were fishing as far out as you went ?

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Didn’t have to walk out too far. Just stayed fairly close to the north bank. It did not look too safe the further you walked out.

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Yea, Mike!! Looks like the olde crystal tube jig did it again!! Got lots of those in several sizes gathering dust in the tackle box.
Maybe next Thursday!

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Anybody going to the berry on sunday? ill be up there im still half tempted to take my wheeler out there 4-6" of ice is good

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What a great day on the ice- that was some serious hot fishing!! MGB already gave the details, but I wanted to add that we also had awesome weather all day. No wind, sun came out, WOW! Don’t think it gets much better than days like today.

Ice is in great shape, but still has a few questionable “grey spots”. Also, the road wasn’t plowed when we got there, so we walked 1/2 way down the road. Sure enough, they plowed it during the day!! [pirate]

Also, Jordanelle was still ice free and Echo was 75% and looked very unsafe (checked them out as we drove home).

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Nice report and fish,how much snow did you have to plow thru?

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A bit of snow, I tried to get stuck a few times. Wasted 20 mins of the day in reverse!! [pirate]

Reminder to get good snow tires!! No worries now. It’s plowed all the way down, parking lot clear, etc. One bad spot by the cattle guard.

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A few more pics- :face_with_tongue:

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Glads its plowed,what I meant to say was how much did you have to WALK thru?:face_with_tongue:

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:sunglasses: My bad- 1-2" of light, powdery snow. Very easy walking. Only bad spot is off the ramp for 50 feet. I don’t think you could get a wheeler off it. Probably bury it right there, it’s drifted in about knee high.