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I was fortunate enough to be invited aboard the Digitrol with Ron today and he put us on a nice number of fish. Launching at Converse, we went 12 for 18, including one scrawny laker hitch hiker. Soon as we got rid of him , the bite picked up again. I had a rare double on with the cheater and the mainline. We used many different colors, but couldnt come up with a pig. One line ripper on the lead might have been it, but I couldn't hear the drag. Ron did, but it was gone. These fish, in the 17-19 range are in beautiful shape, fat , clean and full of spunk. Thanks for a great day Ron and sorry I was a little late. Need to add 15 minutes to my timing to gt over to Converse next time.

Forgot to mention that we saw a beautiful 8 pounder in the parking lot, caught by one of our northern brothers. He was fishing all day in an open boat, a well deserved fish.

great report jeff . glad you had a great time with ron. i have been missing alot but hopeing soon to get in on the action . im glad to be in the loop though with there texts and pics . the frostbite fleet are such great fisherman and a dedicated group to say the least . im lucky to be a member of this great forum. what did you and ron have for lunch.

Fun time today Jeff. 5 boats on the water today. A very nice 24" fat salmon the Quebec father / son team showed us at the launch as it was caught on a Crazy Ivan "Blue Moon". That lure is on fire two days in a row. I might buy a dozen! Thanks for making that early 3 hour 15 minute trip from Mass. in the early hours. Not bad action for 5 hours of trolling!

Seems almost every day lately someone is catching a big fish. Nothing wrong with that

My lunch menu was a fine cut of prime roast beef, from our local supermarket, served on two heavily mayonaised slices of wonder bread. Garnished with Ruffles Potato chips. This is the same lunch i had at work yesterday, the same lunch i will have at work tomorrow, and the same lunch i had at at work 40 years ago. Don't mess with a good thing. Besides, i can put my sandwich on the floor, and reel in a fish.

C-Hawk wrote:My lunch menu was a fine cut of prime roast beef, from our local supermarket, served on two heavily mayonaised slices of wonder bread. Garnished with Ruffles Potato chips. This is the same lunch i had at work yesterday, the same lunch i will have at work tomorrow, and the same lunch i had at at work 40 years ago. Don't mess with a good thing. Besides, i can put my sandwich on the floor, and reel in a fish.

FUNNY
my lunch today

dam,was hoping to here about an 11lber!!!!!lol,nice day of fishing guys,keep up the good work

Hey Matt, you skinny guys need to eat more than us fat guys. That sure looks like a great burger and when I'm up that way I will have one too!
Nice job on your fishing season Finsntns, you need to get a Champlain boat or come over and beg a ride with these guys, just have a long face and you can go too!

Now that I'm home nursing my Laphroaig, and musing about a 400 round mile trip for a wonderful day of fishing, I'm reflecting back 40 years when I would drive 400 miles for women, beer, and maybe a salmon. Now I will only drive 400 miles for a salmon. Is there something wrong with me?

That lure has been the lure that 3/4 6+ pound fish I have caught in the last year has come on... not the ivan version, but a datillios one. It is my go to lure and absolutely hammers the fish!!!! Glad to see people are hammering them... wish I hadn't put the boat up!

C-Hawk wrote:Now that I'm home nursing my Laphroaig, and musing about a 400 round mile trip for a wonderful day of fishing, I'm reflecting back 40 years when I would drive 400 miles for women, beer, and maybe a salmon. Now I will only drive 400 miles for a salmon. Is there something wrong with me?

I assure you, there is NOTHING wrong with you!!

Absolutely Slammed the Ontario spring Browns on that lure, as well as the same in orange and chartreuse colors. Blue is a killer. Little spinners with a lot of blue nail native stream Browns for me. Personally I think it's because it's very visible, maybe unnaturally so. When still hunting with a friend who may be walking several hundred yards away wearing little orange (his choice), I can pick up his blue jeans through the woods like a neon sign. Noticing this years ago I decided to always get my arrows for the recurve bow fletched with at least one blue feather - you would be shocked to see how easy those arrows are to find when they've been shot into the grass near the target (yes I do that a lot). So while a guy I know who writes for a fishing magazine insists about lures "it's 10 percent color, 90 percent presentation", maybe a color that gets noticed that is not necessarily natural may be a hot choice when the light is right for it. And Jeff, I can't spell Laphroag without looking at the bottle, but another fine choice!

Blue is the only primary color that doesn't appear naturally. Lucky for me I had the bottle in front of me, but I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than frontal labotomy.