05-30-2006, 01:13 AM
Been up to the berry all weekend, that was some tough weather to deal with but we didn't let it stop us.
Day 1: Launched the boat at 6:00am in breezy conditions air temperature was 48. The surface temperature stayed at 50*-52* all weekend. We started over by the ladders for the first couple hours and only boated a couple. The wind started blowing really hard so we headed over to the north side of the knolls and found a wind break. We anchored up in 19'-25' (pending which way the wind decided to blow) and had some fairly good success boating 40 between 4 of us. Decided to get off the water at 2:00pm. The ride back to the strawberry marina was rough, one of the roughest rides I have taken accross that lake. I seen 3 boats beached and only two other boats on the water after the wind picked up.
Day 2: Just two of us made it out. We launched in calm conditions but the air temperature was 28*. As the day went on we where hit by a series of storms. We got rained on,snowed on, the wind blew hard, but we did enjoy afew minutes of sun shine in between the storms. We had to move around alittle to find the fish. After we fished 4 different areas we had boated about 25 from 6:00am-4:00pm.
Day 3: Launched at 6:00am air temperature was 22* and conditions where calm and stayed that way untill we decided to leave at 2:00pm. My boat was frozen from the day before, my stearing cables was frozen and my gas lines where frozen along with every thing else. It took an hour to get the 115 hp started and another 2 hours before my 6 hp decided to start working. We stared fishing over by the knolls in 25' of water but after picking up 4 in a hour or so we moved over close to the ladders. After alittle searching we found a large school in 26' of water, we boated over 80 between 5 of us, 2 where rainbows one cutt was 23 inches one was 22.5 with a tail pinch and the average was on the upper end of the slot. That was a great way to finish out our weekend.
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Day 1: Launched the boat at 6:00am in breezy conditions air temperature was 48. The surface temperature stayed at 50*-52* all weekend. We started over by the ladders for the first couple hours and only boated a couple. The wind started blowing really hard so we headed over to the north side of the knolls and found a wind break. We anchored up in 19'-25' (pending which way the wind decided to blow) and had some fairly good success boating 40 between 4 of us. Decided to get off the water at 2:00pm. The ride back to the strawberry marina was rough, one of the roughest rides I have taken accross that lake. I seen 3 boats beached and only two other boats on the water after the wind picked up.
Day 2: Just two of us made it out. We launched in calm conditions but the air temperature was 28*. As the day went on we where hit by a series of storms. We got rained on,snowed on, the wind blew hard, but we did enjoy afew minutes of sun shine in between the storms. We had to move around alittle to find the fish. After we fished 4 different areas we had boated about 25 from 6:00am-4:00pm.
Day 3: Launched at 6:00am air temperature was 22* and conditions where calm and stayed that way untill we decided to leave at 2:00pm. My boat was frozen from the day before, my stearing cables was frozen and my gas lines where frozen along with every thing else. It took an hour to get the 115 hp started and another 2 hours before my 6 hp decided to start working. We stared fishing over by the knolls in 25' of water but after picking up 4 in a hour or so we moved over close to the ladders. After alittle searching we found a large school in 26' of water, we boated over 80 between 5 of us, 2 where rainbows one cutt was 23 inches one was 22.5 with a tail pinch and the average was on the upper end of the slot. That was a great way to finish out our weekend.
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