Atlantics.Landlocks,Ouaouaniche PICS at post 5

[darsky]

I hit a lake near Montreal on Sunday hoping for my first ever landlocked salmon. We trolled flyrods with sinking ends and hit water in the 10-25 ft range. Baits were small minnow crankbaits and smelt imitating streamers. With lines in the water for only one minute the reel with the small crank screamed. After a great battle a spunky 15 incher was in the boat. These fish are like small steelies on steroids. They can strip line off a reel in seconds. In the next 30 minutes 3 more were boated. Streamers and cranks were both equally effective during the day. There was a period of downtime (45 min) and I was in deep thought when a larger one hit the fly-ZZZZZZZZZTTT ZZZZTT ZZZZZZTTTTTTT nearly gave me a heart attack. This fish took the bait and stripped at least 50 ft of backing off the fly reel-in micro seconds. They fly out of the water too. Just awesome. To make this longer story a bit shorter we had at least 27 salmon hit the baits with 18 in the boat. These fish taste great so we brought home our limit of 2 per person. What an amazing way to get into a type of fish that I never caught before. As usual pics should follow

[limeyangler]

 

 

HURRY UP WITH THE PICS MAN!

 

 

 

Great report, to get into that many fish at the first attempt is awesome...hats off to ya

[highdrifter]

Get on it Darsky!!

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

cheers

HD

[Leecher]

Sounds like you guys had a blast.... and the big one gave you one hell of a fight!!!

Congratulation for landing so many considering that it was your first time fishing for them

 

Like others said.... Hurry up with the pics!!!

Leechman

[Roy]

Here are Darren's pics. Sorry it took me so long.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great pics Darren and some very healthy specimens for sure.

[River Rat]

wow....nice Lantics.

 

I'm getting my fork tail fix in June....can't wait.

 

RR

[Cudz]

Very cool!

[Leecher]

Beauties

[darsky]

thanks Roy for the help

[TJQ]

Nice!!

[Mike the Pike]

WTG Darren another species on my catch to do list.

 

Were you in the east which M lake was it.Very pretty fish hope to find out what they fight like

[holdfast]

Nice Darsky, By any chance would that lake be in the Eastern Townships and start with an M. Im curious. PM me

 

Thanks.

Edited May 5, 2009 by holdfast

[b2kptbo]

Nice, would like to try that...

[Musky or Specks]

I love catching landlocks on the flyrod we get into them bigtime on the surface during the caddis hatch in Labrador. They dont quite have the power of a steelhead but man do they put on an ariel display. Great catch!111

[NAC]

They look like tasty little torpedos. Nice job!

[solopaddler]

What beautiful clean looking fish, you must've been beside yourself!

[Feldie]

Nice fish D.

When you come to Niagara I'll take you out to get some Kings that make your fish look like Bait, lol.

 

 

 

 

Check out niagarafishing.net and you can see some of the great fishing around here.

 

Damn your hair got grey in the last 15 years, lol.

[Paully]

Im surprised GCD hasent posted a pic of his Brown trout.... :blahblah1:

[darsky]

Nice fish D.

When you come to Niagara I'll take you out to get some Kings that make your fish look like Bait, lol.

 

 

 

 

Check out niagarafishing.net and you can see some of the great fishing around here.

 

Damn your hair got grey in the last 15 years, lol.

 

 

You try getting married and having kids-perfect recipe for greyness and baldness

[muskymatt]

I used to fish wananish on Lac St Jean almost 40 yrs ago as a very young boy (4-7) with my dad.....great memories for sure. We used to catch all kinds of them and good sized ones too.

 

It was nice to see the pics..thanks for the flashback