my ice out laker trip!!

[carll2]

tuesday april 10th

 

me and a couple friends had the itch to fish, but seeing in quebec not much is open we opted to go for a 2 hourdrive to vermont where you can fish lake champlain for lake trout,browns,and landlocked salmon all season long. basically we werent sure if the ice would be out of not so we were praying that it would be,on the way down it wasnt looking too good with atleast half of the bays and boat launches still locked up with ice.

 

we arrive to our spot. yes the ice is gone,we talked to a local and the ice had gone the day prior. by 7am we were out on the water searching for them lakers.

 

here i am keeping an eye out on things since we had seen lots of baitfish on our sonar

 

 

 

heres what i nailed watching them baitfish, fish came out in 15 fow.

 

 

 

releasing her..even though you dont see much

 

 

 

next was a double header, my rod goes off and so does my buddys..yes fishh on!!

 

 

 

our rigger set-up

 

we also used planner boards

 

 

all in all we were 3 in the boat , i ended up landing 3 lakers and my 2 friends got 2 each. so in our boat total count was 7. we also had 2 friends in another boat fishing with us and they caught a total of 6. all lakers were between 5-9lbs

 

most fish were caught just by flatlining spoons/streamers and yozuri minnows and rapalas.. we caught 1 fish on the downrigger and that was it, and nothing for the planner boards.

 

water was damnnn cold, and it was about 0 degrees all day with a 5k wind

 

id definately go back soon, there was hardly anybody , gotta love fishing during the week

 

so thats my report enjoy

 

 

btw: those wondering if we had life jackets yes we did , they were there in the boat ready for us

Edited April 11, 2007 by carll2

[ccmtcanada]

Great post! Nice seeing the open water. It may have been cold, but at least the wind stayed calm for you. Some nice lakers there...thanks for the pics too!

[Roy]

WTG Carl. You did good. Do you happen to know what the water temp was?

[carll2]

surface water was exactly 32f..still pretty cold but was the fishing hot and nobody out there

roy ya gotta get down there before the crowds do

 

btw 6 of the 7 fish caught on rapala j-9 blue/silver 150 feet in back of the boat

[mattyk]

some nice fish you got there! Thanks for sharing!

[lew]

Thanks Carl, sure is nice to read about a successful day out trolling the big waters.

 

Nothing wrong with driving a couple hours to get into a bunch of fish like that.

[easton13th]

Great report. Looks cold, but it paid off.

[irishfield]

Beauty report Carl...when there's a will to fish...there's a way!!

[Smokey]

Great looking fish. Congrats

[GbayGiant]

Nice job Carll, you guys really got into them, the drive definitely paid off.

Edited April 11, 2007 by GbayGiant

[canadian_copper]

great job guyz!!!

[Mike the Pike]

Way to go Carl now you got me dreaming of lakers .I will have to try and go.Vermont is only 45 minutes from here.Maybe 30 more minutes to those fishing waters.

 

Good for you guys.Nice report and pics.Wow!!!!!!! Roy lets get our boats out.MTP

[b2kptbo]

Nice report, looks like a great time...

[mikemo]

surface water was exactly 32f..still pretty cold but was the fishing hot and nobody out there

roy ya gotta get down there before the crowds do

 

btw 6 of the 7 fish caught on rapala j-9 blue/silver 150 feet in back of the boat

 

Nice report.

I use the same lure and colour most of the time, at least 150 feet out too. Works very nice.

I can't wait to get out - hopefully next weekend.