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Strawberry Ice Off - MBM1969 - 04-28-2014 Ice off is happening at Strawberry!! I went up Sunday with the float tube and fly rod and had a really good day. Most of the bays have some open water with more on Soldier Creek side. The Ladders had a good 500 yard section open. I fished over by the Soldier Creek creek boat ramp. I knew it was going to be a good day when my first three casts caught fish. A big black wolley bugger on an intermediate line worked the best. I ended up catching 15 fish all cuts in the slot limit. My best was a 22 inch cut. I tried float tubing for a while but I didn't have as good as luck as just wading and casting from shore. Below are some pics including some crazy soul who was not done ice fishing yet. Mark [img][/img] [img][/img] [img][/img] [img][/img] [img][/img] [img][/img] [signature] Re: [MBM1969] Strawberry Ice Off - saturn_guy - 04-28-2014 Were the roads on the SC side passable by a small passenger car, or do you need 4-wheel drive? [signature] Re: [saturn_guy] Strawberry Ice Off - MBM1969 - 04-28-2014 You will have no problem getting all the way to the SC boat ramp. A couple drifts but there is a clear lane going by each. The road was snow covered with a inch or snow of snow Sunday morning and I was a little worried in my little 2 wheel drive truck but I had no issues and it was melted by afternoon. Mark [signature] Re: [MBM1969] Strawberry Ice Off - NWFF - 04-29-2014 Thanks for the report. It inspired me to go today. I fished near the soldier creek boat ramp and also near the Aspen Grove campground. Fishing was steady, caught 6 slot cutts and 2 rainbows. The wind was brutal, made fishing difficult. All of the roads I travelled were clear and there were several areas of open water. All the fish were caught on either black marabou jigs or rainbow tube jigs. [signature] Re: [NWFF] Strawberry Ice Off - LOAH - 04-29-2014 So the road to dam is open too? [signature] Re: [LOAH] Strawberry Ice Off - NWFF - 04-29-2014 Yeah, I took it all the way until it became gravel and it was in good shape. [signature] Re: [NWFF] Strawberry Ice Off - LOAH - 04-29-2014 Thank you, thank you, thank you.[cool] [signature] Re: [NWFF] Strawberry Ice Off - cutter4 - 04-29-2014 Its time!!! [signature] Re: [MBM1969] Strawberry Ice Off - xberto - 04-29-2014 I've not partaken in "ice-off" at Strawberry but absolutely will this year. For my young kids (6year old twins), will floating a worm or powerbait be effective? As for myself, I'll probably work near by shoreline with bait caster. So I read throwing woolybuggars out to the ice can be productive, is that right? Just cast and realthem slow or do I jig them? I've never fished with a wooly either Thanks. [signature] Re: [xberto] Strawberry Ice Off - TroutMan93 - 04-29-2014 A wooly bugger is a fly...not a jig. You can cast it out with a bubble and retrieve it slowly. Marabou jigs would work also...as seen a couple posts up. [signature] Re: [TroutMan93] Strawberry Ice Off - flygoddess - 04-30-2014 A bugger can be a jig. All in the hook. Jig hooks for flies have become very popular. Look up balanced nymphing. http://www.flycraftangling.com/index.asp?p=145&szArticleButtonCommand=view&nArticleID=59 In reply to the question at hand, I would say a regular WB , and if using spinning gear, a water bubble. Vary you return speed. [signature] Re: [NWFF] Strawberry Ice Off - chinook - 04-30-2014 Thanks for that update. I am wanting to go up and try on Thursday. I appreciate letting us know what you used. Nice. Love the pics. [signature]