Beautiful weather this morning at Strawberry. You know that any post that mentions the weather first isn’t going to contain an impressive fishing report. Despite the nice weather this morning, the fishing out of the marina was very slow for me. I could see fish all through the water column but despite my efforts I couldn’t get them very interested in what I was offering.
I kind of expected slow fishing this early in the season based on Robert’s report earlier this week. If he’s not catching Kokanee it’s doubtful anyone is.
The docks aren’t in and the restrooms and pay station aren’t open but there were still a lot of boats today. Some inconsiderate fella backed his pontoon down into the water when I got there and he just left his truck there all day…trailer submerged, blocking a space on the ramp, while he was out on the water. It was still there when I left.
:huh:
I’m probably about 1 1/2-2wks from hitting the Berry. This ramp hog should know better, but then they become specialized with their own priveledges. I can imagine the antics going at the ramp over this. There should have been a citation issued over this.
Yeah, I’ve caught kokanee on Needlefish and Triple Teasers. There are the Ospreys and Serpent Spoons and etc. which are intended for kokanee. But the 3 I’m talking about hit a 4 inch long silver hammered Krocodile or that Lucky Crafter Pointer 65. They are usually deep like Bob said and usually pretty good sized.
We had a quadruple on Friday. That made number 13 for the boat all time. Still only 1 quintuple though. Too many doubles and triples to count.
It was around noon and I had just finished a turn and turned my head to look back at the fish finder when I saw it change from 49.9 to 50 degrees. I turned around and looked at the gear, right as it was going to finish the turn and “flip” to start a different direction. As soon as I located the gear, I saw two salmon skyrocket out of the water, 6 feet or so. One with the Lucky craft in his mouth on the planer board and the other 10’ down on the downrigger with a pink hoochie trailing a pink dodger behind it.
I love how they go berserk in the early season and jump like the devil just forked them in the tail. Never gets old.
In all my years of fishing the gorge I’ve caught 2 on crankbait. I believe the first one was on a rainbow colored rapala. This last one was on a flicker shad. To throw salt in the wound I fished for kokanee all morning only to switch gears and try for rainbows. Then caught a random koke on a crank. However it was exactly as described. Right after a turn, that was the inside rod on a board. This was back in mid April.
Ya hopefully the browns come out to play soon! Its crazy how many people throw powerbait all day without a bite but ill catch 30+ on lures… the browns ive caught have been all on artificial.
Went to look for some browns this late morning, no luck as only bows were hitting my lures.. brown trout Rapala, daredevil spoons, 3" swim baits… bows liked them all but no browns… when I got there 3 rods were laying in the dirt so I set them up against the guard rail so no one would run them over, after a few hours of no.browns upon returning back to the truck the rods were still there… so they’re in my garage if anyone lost them lemme know. I don’t have social media so if you see somewhere else someone’s missing rods let me know.
