Strawberry is at 55 degrees

[Old_Coot]

Saturday, I and a good friend (Dave Offret) took a trip to the Berry for some early morning fishing. We found a hole over on the east side of the Medows that were holding some big cuts. Third one was a keeper at just a tad over 22 ... Dave's biggest trout ever:

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A little later he netted this nice bow:
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It was a beautiful morning to be out. The air temps started at 19 degrees and ended at 60. The water temps ranged from 54-56.

We caught all fish casting something. Either Lucky Crafts or perl white tube jigs tipped with chub meat. We didn't catch a single fish verticle jigging! But then again, we never really found any concentrations of fish.

We didn't catch many fish. I think we only caught about a dozen all day. But we had a good time.

Seen Kent of NSL out there with his students. As always, they seemed to have a fish on every time I looked at them.
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[Kent]

Congrats on getting into some larger fish. My report is on your other Strawberry thread.
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[flygoddess]

Maybe you would have caught more if you had moved to a warmer area...LOL
Nice trout, and they taste fantastic. I actually kept one this year.[]
I usually deep nymph (which is probably the fly fishing equivalent to vertical jigging) but the fish are scatter a little more so that isn't working well for me either.
However, I am finding schools because I am catching two at a time at different depths.

As far as the temp, maybe you two drive the same make vehicle[laugh][laugh]
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[Lunkers]

Nice pics. sounds like the ater is getting cold to where the bitting should start soon.
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[tomegun]

For really big fish, try Pointer 125's in "The Narrows" around trees.
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[flygoddess]

So much for that spot[]
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