HOT on the broad lake

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HOT on the broad lake

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Fished with Dreamcatcher and Fishdawg yesterday. Launched at 1st light and lasted to 2:15pm at which point we were just a puddle of melted fisherman in the bottom of the boat. A thunder shower past by and we reconstituted enough to pull the set and call it a day..

Best spoons were anything with silver back and pink in it. We had multiple honey bee mp6’s and crazy Ivan’s that had these colors firing then we finally found the salmon...

The water temp was alarming... most salmon came from
70 feet over 90-130... the temp broke from 63 to 55 Round 75 feet so it was a deep set.

Fleas are terrible. Don’t even bother fishing riggers with less than 30lb test. They are as bad as I have ever seen already... I hate to think what August will be like.

We started slow and didn’t really get a good salmon bite going until it got to be about 9am. The highlight of the day was a beautiful steelhead who took a slide divers set running down 60ft right to the surface and jumped 50yards off the back of the boat diver and all. Boy he had some shoulders.. ended up being a nice 23” 5lber... Kenny is usually driving so it was nice to see him land this puppy...

I shot a video, will post it later.

Menu was sweet italian Venny sausage sandwiches for breakfast followed by chicken wing lunch. We planned to do hot dogs for a snack around 2 but couldn’t even think of doing anything with the word hot in it by then..



Another fine day on the lake with great company and
Special memories for all.. thanks guys!

Fish on
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Nice report! Looks like you did alright....and you ate well too!
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Nice fish! Fleas are going to be a battle this summer, and low water levels. Where did you launch? How was the water level.
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Here is a link to the video of Jeff’s steelhead fight... :?

You can see the fleas add another challenge to the fight

;) https://youtu.be/aTthAcU3hPo
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Good fish, bad fleas. Nice video.
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Nice!
I went out Saturday at Cowbanks, 5:30 AM until 10AM fished the trench west side of Cedar and went 5/5 on shaker salmon, all hit silver/pink spoon on 5-6 colors of lead core, no fleas and minor grass. Not a single fish off the downrigger, 72F surface, 2.45-2.70MPH
Got off the water before the zoo turned out and fill the parking lot full of barge trailers.

Was even better up at Carmi on Friday, went 11 for 13 on walleye, most were undersized, but several restricted slot limit, all on custom homemade crawler harnesses 20-25FOW, 1.33MPH, 3 went home to become freezer fillets. Was great until clouds burned off and sun & jet skis came out. Ran out of worms and switched to deep dive crankbaits with running the zig-zag around the aerators down the middle away form the jetskis & tow boats, managed 1 16" that went back then called it a day.
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mudchuck wrote: Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:20 am Nice!
I went out Saturday at Cowbanks, 5:30 AM until 10AM fished the trench west side of Cedar and went 5/5 on shaker salmon, all hit silver/pink spoon on 5-6 colors of lead core, no fleas and minor grass. Not a single fish off the downrigger, 72F surface, 2.45-2.70MPH
Got off the water before the zoo turned out and fill the parking lot full of barge trailers.

Was even better up at Carmi on Friday, went 11 for 13 on walleye, most were undersized, but several restricted slot limit, all on custom homemade crawler harnesses 20-25FOW, 1.33MPH, 3 went home to become freezer fillets. Was great until clouds burned off and sun & jet skis came out. Ran out of worms and switched to deep dive crankbaits with running the zig-zag around the aerators down the middle away form the jetskis & tow boats, managed 1 16" that went back then called it a day.

Sounds like some great fishing Mudchuck... thanks for sharing... are the aerators in Carmi key spot now???
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Nice fish and video, Matt! Great job team!

Jacob and I fished Carmi a few weeks ago and did really well on the deep side of island and north along the reef. We ended up landing 25 walleye, 3 smallies and a few perch. Haven't spent a lot of time on Champ lately, but did fish from Thompson's to Button Bay last Friday. Temp was down 60-65' and the fleas (and weeds) were horrendous! Landed 3 lakers, the biggest being about 28" or so. Came off in the prop wash as I was clearing more fleas .... which was perfect. Didn't want to have to net him anyway since I was solo.
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Reelax wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2020 8:53 am
mudchuck wrote: Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:20 am Nice!
I went out Saturday at Cowbanks, 5:30 AM until 10AM fished the trench west side of Cedar and went 5/5 on shaker salmon, all hit silver/pink spoon on 5-6 colors of lead core, no fleas and minor grass. Not a single fish off the downrigger, 72F surface, 2.45-2.70MPH
Got off the water before the zoo turned out and fill the parking lot full of barge trailers.

Was even better up at Carmi on Friday, went 11 for 13 on walleye, most were undersized, but several restricted slot limit, all on custom homemade crawler harnesses 20-25FOW, 1.33MPH, 3 went home to become freezer fillets. Was great until clouds burned off and sun & jet skis came out. Ran out of worms and switched to deep dive crankbaits with running the zig-zag around the aerators down the middle away form the jetskis & tow boats, managed 1 16" that went back then called it a day.

Sounds like some great fishing Mudchuck... thanks for sharing... are the aerators in Carmi key spot now???
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Sounds like some great fishing Mudchuck... thanks for sharing... are the aerators in Carmi key spot now???
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Since the aerators are in the deeper areas, you'll see lots of marks on your finder near those aerators, mostly perch but some suspended eyes in the mix.
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