Silver which pointed to a better day…
Water was flat and by 10 we had a nice 8” chop on the main lake for the action. We ran 4 riggers with cheaters and mixed in slide divers, long line lead and some
Clip weights into the spread to round out the 6 rod set at .. While all the riggers fired we noticed the 2 color lead sets got the most action and the slide drivers were silent. By about 10am it became apparent that every salmon we had landed had come from 15 feet and up and a
Every laker we had landed was deeper than 20. This helped us dial in the silver bite a little more. As a result we probably boated as many salmon as slimmers Sunday which was kinda nice…
There were blow boats out by 9am, dodging them sitting still or barely moving in the slack wind made the trolling interesting… we trolled by Pointer and crew a couple times hailing the lucky crew in that comphy boat and finding they were also picking away at the silver also… Pat, and Paul working the dance floor and Popster at the helm just looks natural on that boat…
Sometime after noon we had an Ariel show begin about 160ft long lined back on the starboard side…. Andy jumped on it and sure enough he struck chrome with a small steelie. That little bugger did his species proud jumping motile time was Andy brought in his 1st lake Champlain steelie…. Rare this year, it made us start looking for the grand slam that we could now round out with brownie…
Just to make it interesting we had a guy and his wife troll straight Into us in front of Thompsons, he was reading his phone and not looking up with his wife sitting in front looking back. They came within 10 yards shy of us as they trolled straight into our port and finally woke up as we yelled to let him know we were there. As he reacted he took our outside 2 color lead home with him… Riverrat loved that one!! If we had not yelled he would have hit us somewhere mid ship at 2.4 mph! Combat fishin at its finest:)
Menu today was a Chinese marinated sweet and sour pork rib, followed with a heavy rack of Bbq ribs that you could probably smell in Essex NY, they were SO good. There is a common saying we hear on board…. “There will be NO weight lost aboard Reelax” we all left stuffed today.
The counter got a workout and ended up at 20 by 2:30pm. With 6 fish in the box we figured it was time to head to the barn.
Thanks for jumping in guys. Your a crew that runs the boat without help and that makes for an easy day for me;) Proven by the flat trailer tire patch job at the launch at the end of the day!
Fish on!!!
