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Got to The Strawberry Marina about 1:00 PM on Wednesday. Took awhile to find them in the cold choppy wind, but managed to net and trap about 100 minnows. Headed out fishing about 3:00 PM in a rain storm. It was cold enough to freeze the balls off of a pool table. Tried to fish in the wind and ice-cold rain for about 1 1/2 hours without success and decided to head to our warm room at the marina. Headed out at 6:30 on Thursday. The weather had improved, but the fish weren't biting much better. Tried vertical jigging -- nada -- finally caught three cutts under the slot trolling.
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Fishing in the afternoon picked up considerably:
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[cool]The gods must be crazy! They went and moved Bird Island to Strawberry!
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[size 1]"They went and moved Bird Island to Strawberry!"[/size]
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[size 1]Wild guess -- you haven't been to Bird Island recently (LOL)?[/size]
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That pic of the double looks like the inside of AFBH....I think I can see my honey hole.
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Hey Kent,
Just how far down were you trolling for those "cutts" in the photos ?
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Jack, I figured with you being down in AZ you wouldn't mind it too much if I kept the cats exercised in your old honey hole!
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We caught the cutts trolling leaded line (they either didn't like my downrigger or liked my wife better) out about 6 or 7 colors trolling at 2.7 mph.
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We caught most of them fishing about 2 feet from shore -- need to be closer than that? As far as fishing later in the day, I consider myself lucky whenever I can get my wife to fish with me, and when she's onboard we typically start fishing later and quit earlier to make up for it.
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[cool]Yeah, I forgot that bird island is mostly underwater these days. Maybe you were by American Fork boat harbor?
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Is the road open to AF harbor now? I heard it washed out a few weeks back?
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The road is still washed out right at the entrance to the marina. A few folks are parking outside and walking in (about 2/3 of the road is washed out).
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] Thanks for the report.
] I haven't got any use for it anymore...but you've got to fish in a little closer and later in the day!