Sunday, October 18, 2009

Strawberry Cutts '09

So the little feller and I went to Strawberry the other day. We had been doing our homework by checking local forums etc. and had heard that there was a nasty scum covering the lake. NOT TRUE. I really am not a fan of the "eliteist" flyfisherman who tries to hide his spot. Needless to say we sifted through all the bull and made the jont. We started at Bryant's Fork and did okay. I landed two, one nice cutt and a nice bow.










We then decided to make a move to the dam. We haphazardly tied the boats to the roof of Rob's suburban (completely inflated) and drove to the dam. As we walked down to scout the first thing rob saw with his new specs was a monster 22" cutt. We decided to stay. We launched to boats and stayed in close to the bank and did fairly well with just kicking back and forth dragging the buggers in about 5 - 7 feet of water.
Here is a video of one of the fish.


Late sunday night before we left we had a wild hair and decided we would try to catch some crawdads while we fished. So on our way to the lake we stopped at Wal-Mart and bought a few supplies to make a trap. The trap only kindof worked. We ended up catching 14 most of which were cauth from the dock with a chicken wing tied to a rope. I cooked them up that night, they were pretty tasty... I think I have a new hobby while flyfishing.

















They were tasty little critters. I will post more "high quality" videos when I have the time.