09-20-2015, 09:07 PM
Fished Strawberry yesterday with a fellow member of BFT (who wanted to learn how I vertically jig) and a DAV that we met at the luncheon at the DAV event of a few months back.
I had a difference in opinion with a fellow boater at the boat ramp, but no heated words were exchanged.
First we tried near a prior way point that had worked in the past. The problem with previous way points is that they were made when the water was at a different elevation. Moved out just a little from the mark in about 22 -24 feet of water and anchored up with the virtual anchor. Saw a few fish jump but apparently I made my cast to where they jumped either a little too late or not exactly in the right spot because I never got any hits. Tried vertical jigging and bouncing back to the boat for about an hour there without any hits.
Saw several boats fishing an area about 3/10 of a mile east of us, so I slowly moved that direction while we drug our tube jigs behind us. At one point, two out of the three of us got hits and so I hit the anchor button again. We stayed there the rest of the day until we left at 4:30. We were anchored up in about 31 to 32 feet of water. Catching was pretty good most of the day. Caught a few casting and bouncing back to the boat but dropping straight down, just barely off of the bottom with one rod and the other rod straight down with three turns off of the bottom, seemed to work the best. Tipped with cut chub and shrimp. Wind started blowing at 10:00 AM, or we would have caught even more. We caught plenty after the wind started blowing, but it wasn't ideal jigging weather.
Water temperature about 57 first thing in the morning and 60 when we left at 4:30.
Great to get out again and nice to meet another angler from BFT.
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I had a difference in opinion with a fellow boater at the boat ramp, but no heated words were exchanged.
First we tried near a prior way point that had worked in the past. The problem with previous way points is that they were made when the water was at a different elevation. Moved out just a little from the mark in about 22 -24 feet of water and anchored up with the virtual anchor. Saw a few fish jump but apparently I made my cast to where they jumped either a little too late or not exactly in the right spot because I never got any hits. Tried vertical jigging and bouncing back to the boat for about an hour there without any hits.
Saw several boats fishing an area about 3/10 of a mile east of us, so I slowly moved that direction while we drug our tube jigs behind us. At one point, two out of the three of us got hits and so I hit the anchor button again. We stayed there the rest of the day until we left at 4:30. We were anchored up in about 31 to 32 feet of water. Catching was pretty good most of the day. Caught a few casting and bouncing back to the boat but dropping straight down, just barely off of the bottom with one rod and the other rod straight down with three turns off of the bottom, seemed to work the best. Tipped with cut chub and shrimp. Wind started blowing at 10:00 AM, or we would have caught even more. We caught plenty after the wind started blowing, but it wasn't ideal jigging weather.
Water temperature about 57 first thing in the morning and 60 when we left at 4:30.
Great to get out again and nice to meet another angler from BFT.
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