Sunny Strawberry Sat 3-10

Utah Fishing Reports & Discussion Utah Fishing General
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Decided to try to hit Strawberry today. Was expecting lots of slush on the ice, but was pleasantly surprised to find none at Soldier Creek.

We parked at the Soldier Creek Dam turn off and rode in on sleds. Plan was to hit the Dam area. One of our sleds broke down on the way in, so we didn’t make it over there. Spent the first hour towing out a snowmobile… Being on the ice at 7 and not fishing till 830 was not fun.

Finally got set up to fish south of the bathrooms in that big bay instead.

Caught tons of small bows and a few larger 16-18 inch bows. Several Cutthroat as well, but nothing larger than 22. It was sunny and warm all day.

Saw several 2WD outfits get stuck trying to drive down the Soldier Creek Dam road. The drifted snow on the road is deep and soft. 4WD trucks didn’t have a problem.

The 3 younglings in our group put the hurt on the fish. CJ, ZZ, and KZ have it all figured out. We stayed in 13-15 ft of water and didn’t move all day.

The fishing was fairly constant all day with ice flies, gazillas, paddlebugs, and other jigs. White, chartreuse and pink all seemed to produce for our group today.

We left at 2 because of other commitments, but would have loved to stay longer…

Wondering what the slush was like from other places on the lake. I would love to hear from some of the other BFTers that were up there around various parts of the lake today.

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We too were at Strawberry Sat.No slush at Haws point but you could see early in the week there was some[:/] Fishing was ok slot cuts and we caught some bows too.:sunglasses:
.Was getting soft when we come off the ice at 4:oo.but a great day on the ice.:slight_smile:

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Two if us fished the Ladders area from 7:00 till 11:00am. No slush and really easy on/off. Surprisingly caught only one slot cutt and 8 bows. We were in 12 feet of water.
The showdown helped a little and the fish came through in groups.
Got to meet Igottabigone out there checking us out on his snow machine. So how’d you guys end up?

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We only caught a couple cuts in the slot also. We picked up a dozen rainbows. The fish would come through in schools. If one pole got a bite so did every other pole. Seemed like every half hour or so we would be hooking up with two or three fish. Missed many bites also. Weather was awesome. We left shortly after you guys did. Packing up back at the truck I watched a guy catch fish in the open water right where the last ladder falls into the lake. Pretty cool.