Decided to take advantage of the great weather Saturday and take the boat up to Strawberry. We launched at 9:00am, air temp was 42F, ended the day at 74F. Zillions of boats on the water and lots of shore anglers everywhere.
We trolled Rapalas with a downrigger and some with 1/2oz weights. Once we dialed in color, we stared catching. Fish were in the upper column in 9-20 feet. Caught a few nice 'Bows to start. I then hooked something big that just stayed down and shook its head like a Chinook Salmon. Eventually, we got a monster Cutt to the boat. My estimate was 30" or better. I say my estimate, because my son was a bit anxious and tried to net it before he was ready. He knocked the lure loose and the big hookjaw swam off to fight another day…sigh. Maybe he’ll make some baby monsters to catch in a few years. Finished the day in Renegade once the wind kicked up and caught a few slot Cutts. A great day on the water.
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I believe it!!! We were there Saturday also. At the East Portal Bay. Was fantastic till about noon, then the steady wind. Still caught but a bit tough to hold a spot.
I did a 12 hour day on the berry Saturday and ended up with 32 fish. But there were three seperate hours where I caught zero fish for the whole hour. Then bam bam bam three or even four in twenty minutes. It was a great day just not the steadiest day I ever had there.
For what it’s worth I caught on a fly fished with a floating line with a six foot sink tip for most of the day. Best color was white.
Nice, I have been seriously thinking the Hover:
http://www.rioproducts.com/fly-lines/freshwater/lake-sinking/hover/
I pass a guy in a donut and as I did
he yelled FINALLY! Nice fish and he was using a floating with a long leader.
I saw you a long the shore line. I was at that first bay and did very well in the 2 hours we fished. No real dead times but again that was only 2 hours.
I tried Intermediate and had fish, but I counted down. The Type II in 30+ feet was my getter. Every cast at one point. I was on my Blue Renegade.