Late Post - Strawberry 7/10/19

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Rented a 21' pontoon for half day from the marina.

My 2 youngest boys, my dad and brother were all present. We ended up catching 10 or so, with 1 being a hard fighting 17" rainbow, the rest cutts, most in the slot. We took home the rainbow and 3 cutts that were in the 13 - 14.5" range.

Most were caught fishing a clear water-filled (7/8 full) bubble/bobber above 4-5 feet of leader and a worm with a single power-egg placed on the worm hook before the worm. A couple were caught on plain worm, and a slightly strange catch -- a crawdad on powerbait! [][laugh]

A boat near us were catching them faster than us using tube jigs tipped with worm, but we weren't able to duplicate their results.

Fished in Renegade area, 200 yards from shore from about 7am to about 11 or so.

Pics attached.
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[catchinon]

Fun, fun, fun! Better late than never. We get a lot of reports about trolling for kokes and it's nice to see a report about the trout fishing, too. If you don't mind me asking, how much does it cost to rent one of those boats for a half day?
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[cat_man]

http://strawberrybay.com/summer-rentals/

about $259 for the 10 person 21' pontoons, including a tank of gas.
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[catchinon]

If you had 259 guys go in on it, that would just be a dollar a person [laugh]. You do your own math for however many you all want to take. A lot cheaper than owning and operating your own boat year-round.
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[cat_man]

You're not wrong.

Think about it, even if you just split it like 5 ways with 4 other people, it's about $50 each. How much are launch fees, plus gas, for a day of fishing at Strawberry? Probably $40 or so. But then you don't have to drive a trailer up there, spend time launching it, docking it, parking the trailer, registering boat and trailer, etc. etc. and that's after you've paid for the boat in the first place.
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