strawberry

[masterarcher]

any help on this lake the fish are not as big as say 3 years ago any one done any good ? looking for trolling info for fathers day and need to know if i need down rigger for bigger fish?[crazy]
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[Theekillerbee]

Wish I could be of some help. Strawberry was not kind to me last year while trolling. Welcome to BFT, and I like your login!
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[Kent]

My experience is that the fish are larger, on average, than for the past several years. However, I have always caught smaller fish trolling than by fishing with minnows, and I know some who catch larger fish with jigs than with trolling. I use a downrigger, leaded line, and merely long lining. It is not unusual for long lining to be more effective than any other method of trolling. I have also had success merely drift trolling with the wind (rarely is it not windy at Strawberry from 11:00 AM on until the late afternoons at Strawberry), and drift trolling can be extremely relaxing. Not sure that downriggers will pick up larger fish, except that a downrigger is extremely helpful if you are going to target the kokanee.
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[masterarcher]

thanks ill keep the drift trolling in mind you know this is really a great idea for people to learn better why to improve there skills i thank you both for you input[]
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[Kent]

Try attaching a flasher (some call them dodgers) to your line, and then run a lure, crawler, minnow, or whatever 8 to 24 inches behind the flasher. This method can also work great just slowly drift trolling.
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[masterarcher]

i will try that thanks real thanks[]
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[Fishrmn]

Kent,
There are flashers, and there are dodgers. Flashers rotate very much like the blade on a spinner. Dodgers have more of a swaying motion. Kind of a side to side thing. The dodgers that I've seen come in 4 or 5 sizes. From fairly small (3 inches or so) to fairly large (about 7 inches). Flashers tend to be a bit bigger. Say from 6 inches up to about 13 or 14 inches for the biggest "Abe and Al" that I've seen. And there is one out there called a "flodger". I've never had the chance to see one of them yet, so I can't say how they perform.

So, the question is, are you talking about a flasher or a dodger?

Fishrmn

[Kent]

I use both, but primarily a dodger. Not sure all dodgers and flashers function as you described them, but they may.

If anyone is about what we are talking about go to [url "http://www.Cabelas.com"]www.Cabelas.com[/url] and do a search on flasher and dodger.
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