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This is the first year I have fished strawberry in the fall. It is freakin awesome. I've gone 3 times and none of them have disappointed.
This Saturday was no exception. I started out at mud creek on a tip from a guy at SW in provo. I got there and pumped up my tube and hopped in the freezing water. No ice yet... but crazy cold! I fished near the shore working the weed line. I hooked a couple but only got one to the tube. I still can't figure out how a fish gets unbuttoned when the lure has two big treble hooks on it?! The one I landed was approximately 26". It was awesome! That fish came in the first ten minutes of working the weedline. I thought it was gonna be an awesome day. Turned out mud creek was a bust. I didn't land anything else so I decided to move to the ladders.
The ladders are awesome from a tube. If you are looking at the reservoir standing at shore you will see a little sand bar kind of thing to the right. It runs kind of diagonal from the shore. In between the sand bar and the shore there is a little channel. I start in the channel close to shore and work my way out the channel, around the sandbar and then the opposite side of the sandbar. Saturday I actually got out of my tube and stood on the sandbar and cast the channel side and the opposite side as well. I was like 30 yards out and it was only up to my shins. I caught four fish in about an hour. I watched 3 other fish chase the lure until it got too shallow. The smallest fish was 20" and the largest was just about 23". I took the 23"er home for dinner. There was a guy fly fishing in the same area, but not in the channel or near the sandbar when he was out deeper. He only caught one all day. The wind kicked up after that first hour passed and I cursed my decision to start my day at Mud Creek.
Moral to the story:
If you have never fished strawberry at fall you are missing out. It is an awesome resource.
Sorry about no pictures... I forgot my camera and I ended up giving the fish to my wife's grandparents before I could get my camera.
This Saturday was no exception. I started out at mud creek on a tip from a guy at SW in provo. I got there and pumped up my tube and hopped in the freezing water. No ice yet... but crazy cold! I fished near the shore working the weed line. I hooked a couple but only got one to the tube. I still can't figure out how a fish gets unbuttoned when the lure has two big treble hooks on it?! The one I landed was approximately 26". It was awesome! That fish came in the first ten minutes of working the weedline. I thought it was gonna be an awesome day. Turned out mud creek was a bust. I didn't land anything else so I decided to move to the ladders.
The ladders are awesome from a tube. If you are looking at the reservoir standing at shore you will see a little sand bar kind of thing to the right. It runs kind of diagonal from the shore. In between the sand bar and the shore there is a little channel. I start in the channel close to shore and work my way out the channel, around the sandbar and then the opposite side of the sandbar. Saturday I actually got out of my tube and stood on the sandbar and cast the channel side and the opposite side as well. I was like 30 yards out and it was only up to my shins. I caught four fish in about an hour. I watched 3 other fish chase the lure until it got too shallow. The smallest fish was 20" and the largest was just about 23". I took the 23"er home for dinner. There was a guy fly fishing in the same area, but not in the channel or near the sandbar when he was out deeper. He only caught one all day. The wind kicked up after that first hour passed and I cursed my decision to start my day at Mud Creek.
Moral to the story:
If you have never fished strawberry at fall you are missing out. It is an awesome resource.
Sorry about no pictures... I forgot my camera and I ended up giving the fish to my wife's grandparents before I could get my camera.
