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Strike was slow. water from 60 - 65 in Snake River arm and narrows. Water stained and muddy above the balls on snake arm.
Didn't see anybody doing well on crappie & perch. Heard guys were catching trout trolling.
We fished for smallmouth and caught a lot of dinks but only one keeper in two days.
We are heading to Brownlee in the morning for 2 or 3 days and hoping it will be better. If anybody has any info PM me.
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thats too bad about strike. the protective males are doing there thing.
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I hope you have better luck at brown
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Thanks G. We might see you up there but I think we will camp at Woodhead and fish that end.
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Me too! We will give it a try!
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I went to Strike on Tuesday night. Didn't do very well on crappie, but I did get a nice largemouth about 17". From the shape of the belly, I'd say it was a female that still had eggs.
I'm hoping the spawn is just late this year due to the annoying cycle of repeated cold fronts we've had.
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strike acted this way last year too. The crappie never really turned on , just came in spurts and if you happened to be fishing that day you got a bunch otherwise it was a few here and there[mad]
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That doesn't explain the large schools I see on the fish finder, which just refuse to bite.
Last year at brownlee I wad snagging crappie by accident, but they wouldn't bite. To snag multiple crappie, they must be plentiful.
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the only thing is if they are that plentiful why isn't someone catching some? I don't hear of very many people catching crappie there at all. Even fewer are catching fish in the 100's like they used to. I am in the belief that populations are at a very low number right now. Some might say that some were washed over the dam last year. I was told that below the dam they were catching a few there last year. Overall it doesn't matter where they went all I know is I am not spending 70 dollars to go after them at strike. Not with the reports I have heard. Ron
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They always catch some below the dam. There's a population that hangs out in the slack water below the spillway. It's just tough to target them because the shore access its so limited and you cannot use a boat above the bridge. You have to climb down a rock embankment or fish over a chain link fence. I wish Idaho Power would build a walkway or fishing platform along the concrete wall that extends from the bottom of the spillway gates, but I doubt that's ever going to happen.
Went to Cottonwood again on Friday and crappie fishing sucked. Caught maybe a dozen fishing all night. On the other hand, someone caught an enormous largemouth right after I got there around 5 PM. A good 7 or 8 pounds at least. The guy said that was all they wanted to eat, put the fish in the cooler and left. They were out of there within 5 minutes of catching the fish. Saw some male crappie on nests and more large bass swimming around.
I think I'll give crappie fishing at Strike one more shot later this week. If it still sucks, I'll focus on cats closer to Boise.
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