08-24-2019, 05:17 PM
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...Vertical jigging and we hit the same spot every time. Fishing in 50-60’ of water. The crazy thing is we’ve only caught 3 rainbows across those 400+ fish and zero were over the slot...
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It has been my experience that it is rare to catch rainbows, at Strawberry, in water deeper than about 25'. Also, we are typically tipping with chub meat and although rainbows will eat chub meat they seem to prefer other offerings. Finally, there are far more rainbows on the Soldier Creek side than on the Strawberry side.
We have been averaging a slot-buster cutthroat about every 25 fish, which is better than I have experienced in recent years. Interestingly, for several years we have noted, one small area that we frequently fish seems to hold more larger cutthroats than the general population of the reservoir.
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...Vertical jigging and we hit the same spot every time. Fishing in 50-60’ of water. The crazy thing is we’ve only caught 3 rainbows across those 400+ fish and zero were over the slot...
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It has been my experience that it is rare to catch rainbows, at Strawberry, in water deeper than about 25'. Also, we are typically tipping with chub meat and although rainbows will eat chub meat they seem to prefer other offerings. Finally, there are far more rainbows on the Soldier Creek side than on the Strawberry side.
We have been averaging a slot-buster cutthroat about every 25 fish, which is better than I have experienced in recent years. Interestingly, for several years we have noted, one small area that we frequently fish seems to hold more larger cutthroats than the general population of the reservoir.
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