I hit the water on Wed Mornning with my buddy Don,Homewrecker and a firsttimer on the Cathy-Jean Fishdawg. We started the day with what I will refer to as big screw up. I forgot the boat key!!!!! Luckily I had the key for the Kicker. That being said we were limited to location. My Yamaha 9.9 pushes the boat at 5 plus mph into the wind with a full load. Man do I love that little motor!
We set up a full spread of Surface,Leadcore,Mini divers,Mini Slidedivers(a new favorite for me) and a couple of riggers. Last fall I started using the mini Slidediver. A new weapon I really like. This unit is much smaller and lighter than the litebite. A great tool to help plane out a line in the top 20. Although it does not have a litebite arm, I do not think it needs one with braid. Mono might be a little trickier. I reccommend breaid for all diver set ups on Champlain. We had a lot of hookups throughout the morning. We started out 0 for 3. That seemed to set the tone for the day. We had the dropsies all day! I think we lost at least as many fish as we caught and we caught plenty. Laker,Salmon,Laker,Salmon,Laker,Salmon semed to be our routine today. We fished a ledgline on the Mainlake that dropped from 5 to 30 to 100. This is a tricky task even with bottom contours and a good driver,especially when the west wind starts gusting hard. Hot colors were Black and White,Red and White and Silver with Chart or Green. 2 MPH seemed to be key!
We only saw one other boat out there. Some funky looking center console with a weird looking clear plastic canvas around it. Definately a one of a kind!!!!!
An awesome day on the water with good friends. Get out and enjoy the lake! The fishing is Awesome!
Thorny
Here is a pic of a couple of Wednesday's Salmon
BOATS ALMOST READY!!!! 
