05/25 and 05/26 - 8,5 pounds - pics

Hugues · Post by **Hugues** » Sat May 27, 2017 6:59 am

Rainy but fishy trip for the last two days. Never worked that hard to find some salmons on lake Champlain, it was a great challenge ! The bait was deep, we scouted for 5-6 hours with only 3-4 hits starting at Converse, going to every single spot we know on our way south as far as Port Henry. We decided to go back up where we started around 1pm and finally things change on the screen: we began to see more clouds of bait up to 20-30ish feet so we worked the area. Finished the day with 25 hits, all salmons but 5 lakers. The morning after we setup with the same pattern at the same place and it was great: 28 hits with one brown and one beast measured at 27 inches for 8,5 pounds that came on our Crazy Ivan Gravey Saussage Milkshake on 4 color leadcore line. Riggers was set at 14 and 25, spoons close to the boat with many salmons on the slide Cheaters with spoons having some yellow and orange.

Have a good weekend !

Registered Kayak · Post by **Registered Kayak** » Sat May 27, 2017 7:15 am

Way to go! That big ole fish put up a good fight I bet. Thanks for sharing

Hugues · Post by **Hugues** » Sat May 27, 2017 7:29 am

We tought it was a another big laker so we were really relax... until we saw the green back of this monster 20 feet from the boat!!! After a knee bend and a loud scream we reduced the boat speed and took the larger net and pray, ha ha ha. It's our new record on this lake my biggest was 6,25 pounds.

Cas · Post by **Cas** » Sat May 27, 2017 7:53 am

Congrats, that's a beauty!

tamiron · Post by **tamiron** » Sat May 27, 2017 1:48 pm

Great fish! Thank you for the detail and sharing. Newbies would do well to record your reports in a notebook! Your methodology is excellent! / Jim

freshguy · Post by **freshguy** » Sat May 27, 2017 3:33 pm

That's one beautiful fish! Way to go!

Reelax · Post by **Reelax** » Sat May 27, 2017 8:02 pm

Congrats Hugues, you earned that pig. Hope your putting it on the wall.

fishy1 · Post by **fishy1** » Sat May 27, 2017 8:16 pm

wow impressive salmon thanks for the detail and sometimes you have to work for those fish. but patience prevails most of the time. i really enjoyed your post.

Hugues · Post by **Hugues** » Sun May 28, 2017 8:57 am

Thanks guys... we raised and drop the 6 rods program (including the planer boards) 5 times to cover as much water as possible. At the end of the day every member of the crew knew their routine before heading to the ramp, ha ha.

Gecha (Gerry) · Post by **Gecha (Gerry)** » Sun May 28, 2017 1:16 pm

Congrats Hugues. You got an impressive quantity of nice fish during these 2 days.
You put the time and effort and it paid off.

Predator hunter · Post by **Predator hunter** » Sun May 28, 2017 10:37 pm

Wow beaux saumons!

I can't wait to get my first salmon.
How fast are you trolling?

Hugues · Post by **Hugues** » Mon May 29, 2017 7:15 am

We were running the spoons between 2.2 and 2.4 mph at the ball.

Hugues

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05/25 and 05/26 - 8,5 pounds - pics

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