Strawberry fishing picking up

[Fishassassin]

I noticed in your fish finder photos that there are a lot of fishing hugging the bottom. I fished renegade a couple weeks ago and also saw several schools of fish hanging close to the bottom. I stopped trolling and tried vertical jigging for them with little success so I went back to trolling. Does anyone know why they are hanging so close to the bottom this time of year? My guess was that the water temp is changing and the bottom holds the most comfortable water for them, or they just wanted to get out of the green algae that seemed to plague the upper water column. Were you able to get those bottom hugging fish to bite or did you have better success higher up?
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