Strawberry 4-11-23

[Kent]

Kory and I had the best trip of the year to Strawberry today.  A little unusual for the catching to improve so late in the ice season.  I was really surprised that my first fish was a 17" kokanee (not common when fishing in only 23' of water).  My third fish was a heavy 19" rainbow.  Both of them volunteered to come home and become sturgeon bait.  Beautiful day and getting around was not a problem (the snow got a little soft by the time we hiked back around 2 PM) with no slush on the surface.  Drilling holes was another story.  Unless I redrilled some holes, that had been recently used, I had to use my chipper bar to break approximately 2" of ice, out of the bottom of the hole, after drilling as far as my auger would reach.