Strawberry...The Other White Meat

You know it's a bad thing when if there is no wind, you consider it a good day on the water.
I was fishing by 6:30 this morning and there was actually about a 5 mile per hour wind. I worked about 70 feet out from the bank and had no hits until I tied on an Autumn Splendor. Bang 22 inch cut. Dove straight to the bottom and finally came up to see me. Beautiful fish. Then nothing for about an hour. I started to get some rollers out about another 40 yards so I angled out and changed flies to a white crystal bugger with a bead head. As soon as I got out to about the same distance from the bank as the rolling fish were hanging I popped another fish. This one ended up just over 25 inches and is the biggest fish I have had on this year.
Again it was beautiful. I really love the look of these Cuts. Several hits happened and it seemed like things were heating up nicely.

Ten minutes later and I snapped off the fly when another fish hit. I dug around in the boxes ( I carry 5) and there was nothing even close. I tied on an egg sucking leech and had another big hit and that fly snapped off as well. These were clean bite throughs. No little curly end as if the knots had let go. So I dig around again and realize I had left that box at home. All the rest of my leeches were 100 miles away.

By this time the wind had finally died down and it was a great day. I worked in and out to the bank and back several times trying to find something else they were eating, but nothing transpired.

Still it was a fun day and it was just great to get back out on the water.

I am going to go try Jordanelle this weekend. Strawberry has the potential for some bigger fish, but it seems very hit and miss. I haven't floated Jordanelle yet this year, perhaps the catch rate is better. I will post after that trip.