Lake Bomoseen Road trip.
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Lake Bomoseen Road trip.
When I met Fishdawg and Dave F at the parking ride in Georgia today we discussed converse or something out of the box… well we drove another hr past converse and launched in lake Bomoseen to try to find a brown if we could… Never fishing Bomo before I brought a guy who lived on it while attending college and had inside info form Crazy Ivan who contacted a local to get intel on what to drag.
All I can say is Tuesday was an eye opener. We were greeted by early fall colors and a local bass fisherman in a Lund who had never caught a brown in Bomo..
Surface temps were around 70 and the thermocline dropped to below 60 under 40fow.
Bait was ample over deeper water up to 10
Below surface and down to about 40. Lake was clear and full of surface weeds.
None of the holes on navionics were there anymore. All the holes near the launch and up the west shore to the island are gone. I ran 50fow right over the deepest hole navionics said would be 90fow! It was like this everywhere. We could not locate a hole deeper than 71fow anywhere! One hole that said it was 68 feet deep actually came up to 38fow as we trolled over it.
I have navionic platinum chip on simrad and navionics on iPad and both showed deep holes that are no longer there. (Very similar to what Speedy said in the NEK lakes?!?)
We ran a mix of riggers, slide divers, and lead core. We bbqed some really fat wings that were pre marinated by Fishdawg. After noon we bbqed up a martinated pork tenderloin to help fight any hunger that may come on the 2hr ride home:)
After the loin we started throwing around the skunk word and we got desperate. We stopped looking for holes and headed to the middle of the southern portion of the lake. We brought a rigger up to 17ft and put out a custom taped gold flashing on tight to a bare ball(had been running bling up to this pt)
That set was not down long and BANG. We pop a
Small brown. Skunk off! That was 130 and we turned into pumpkin and had to pull lines at 2 to get home at a good hr. Man… did we fish under em all day?
All in all it was a blast. The 4 hrs of trailer time was filled with stories and the laughing never ended all day.
Thanks guys for a memorable trip in Sept!
Fish on!
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Matt B
Re: Lake Bomoseen Road trip.
Thinking outside the box! Bomo has some big browns, so worth a Hail Mary! Why not Lake Dunmore?!
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Re: Lake Bomoseen Road trip.
Glad you caught that brown. It's a long ride for just once catch, but the food looks amazing.
Gecha (Gerry North of the Border)
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Re: Lake Bomoseen Road trip.
I don't put too much faith in those new fangled AI generated programs. Bomo isn't much deeper than 60 feet.
If it was 90 feet, the state would likely stock lakers there, like is done in Dunmore, Sunset and Spring Lake, which do have those depths.
Here's a link to the 1900's way of navigation https://dec.vermont.gov/watershed/lakes ... aps/charts
Dunmore has a chart there as well. If you want I can print you up a "treasure map" if you swing by the hatchery when I'm there. Hint= the smelt have a golden coloration to them and the big salmon are boat shy.
The Fish Whisperer Shawn Hayes's program for Bomo consisted of running cowbells off downriggers and trolling around 1 mph, maybe slower, it was a long time ago.
Al
If it was 90 feet, the state would likely stock lakers there, like is done in Dunmore, Sunset and Spring Lake, which do have those depths.
Here's a link to the 1900's way of navigation https://dec.vermont.gov/watershed/lakes ... aps/charts
Dunmore has a chart there as well. If you want I can print you up a "treasure map" if you swing by the hatchery when I'm there. Hint= the smelt have a golden coloration to them and the big salmon are boat shy.
The Fish Whisperer Shawn Hayes's program for Bomo consisted of running cowbells off downriggers and trolling around 1 mph, maybe slower, it was a long time ago.
Al