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Been wondering what the salmon in the inland sea are up to for weeks… today, Fishdawg, and Dave Foundry and I launched from Apple island at 1st Light to find out. We found 42 deg water and lots of driverse bait profiles all over. Some HOT some COLD. But all fun..
4 riggers with fixed cheaters down 25 to 50 were the ticket today with minimal bling on one rigger near the boat. Army truck and blue moon were the hot spoons.

Menu today consisted of bbq seared pork
Loin medallions followed by cheese burgers…

Interesting to note the 29” OLD laker we landed in front of Eagle mtn, only the 2nd laker I have ever seen landed in the sea!!! Big head, skinny body… interesting fish!

Only one other boat out, who has been into silvers successfully on sea for a while, launched with us and trolled all day.

Guess we can call a day with salmon, lake trout, brown trout and a big pike to round it off an inland sea slammer jammer;)

They are all over the lake, quiet spots may hold biggest fish… the search is on!!!

Oh what fun!

Nice December day on the lake! Thanks for taking us out on the scout. Now that deer hunting is done for the year I can concentrate on fishing!

Great to see some fish in the sea, great place to stay out of the wind. Nice work REELAX!

What a wild collection of fish. The laker looks like it's part eel or something. Or maybe a nurse shark. Weird.

We went out today for a quick trip, an all we caught was salmon, sad face. Just kidding, it's actually pretty cool, right? Been the trend all fall. We don't know how to catch browns or steelhead. Just can't do it, haha. I'll do a quick report next. Have a couple of pictures.

Great report as usual Matt.

Awesome post.
I didn't make it out unfortunately

What's your take on the Rte.2 bridge? In the summer it is way too shallow for my boat. Did you happen to notice the level at the bridge? My thoughts are the water has risen enough for me to sneak through as I will have to launch out of mallets or Colchester point due to some logistical issues. Def. trying for 2 trips this week-weekend. Also Considering the ledge near the mouth of the Winooski, Colchester Reef, etc.

And yes, that Laker

Thanks for another Great post!

Ej (TruViking)

Only thing missn is a walleye! Great post Matt. Hopeful to join the fleet soon, my twin boys are attending ST Michaels and wanna go out on chaos and do some frostbite fishn!

nice job matt,get your trips in this week,looks like possible big nor easter for this weekend.

Controlled chaos wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 5:46 pm Only thing missn is a walleye! Great post Matt. Hopeful to join the fleet soon, my twin boys are attending ST Michaels and wanna go out on chaos and do some frostbite fishn!

Give a heads up on here when and where, maybe we'll meet up out there.

I had a busy year, I do apologize for not posting these pics
Back in July, I just realized it, here’s my son Rylan’s personal best walleye boated July 7 10.31lb 29 1/2” Also the same day 40” northern 16lbs They’ll be bigger next year

Another nice fishing and eating report from the Reelax crew. Always a pleasure to read and look at the pics.

Here is a quick video of Dave’s Brown trout…

https://youtube.com/shorts/tOF_yXaxB4o?feature=share

Army Truck ? Is that a Crazy Ivan spoon ? Don't have every one of them and don't remember that one......... You guys got me jonesin and wishing I could get at my boat.......keep the reports coming !!!

striper192001 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 8:51 am Army Truck ? Is that a Crazy Ivan spoon ? Don't have every one of them and don't remember that one......... You guys got me jonesin and wishing I could get at my boat.......keep the reports coming !!!

Army truck is one of the flag ship crazy Ivan spoons that never get enough water time anymore:(

Fish on!

Thanks Matt.......I still don't know all the names. I did visit his site and saw which one it is........ I have a couple and have caught multiple fish on them..........now I know how to identify it !