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This time of year you want to head for the river mouths or shallow water back in the bays to find some good catches of salmon.  Look for water in the mid 40s and fish just 2 to 5 feet.  Planner boards work well.  I like to run a couple of small stick baits just under the surface.  Pin Minnows work well.  I run some stingers on the down riggers.  Action is going to heat up in the next few weeks.  Fish for lakers anywhere just under the surface.

Salmon bite is picking up with some nice salmon coming on the surface.  I’ve seen some up to 8 lbs.  Lakers are everywhere on the surface as usual for this time of year.  The water temperature is around 41 which is a little chilly but if you get into those back bays or river mouths and find some in the high 40s, you’ll find some good trout fishing.

Salmon fishing has been great.  On our last charter with some folks from Maine we boated our biggest salmon ever.  A 27 inch 7lb. 10 oz monster.  We would have let it go but they are having it mounted.  What a battle.  Last weekend during the annual Lake Champlain Fishing derby a women broke the LCI salmon record with a 11 lb 10 oz fish and many 6 to 9 pounders were caught.  The salmon fishing is really hot this year.  Check out the pictures of that 27 inch salmon in my photos.

Just got back from 3 days of fishing on Champlain.  On the Tony Wheelock charter yesterday, Sam caught the biggest salmon we’ve ever boated.  27 inches and 7 lbs. 10 oz.  What a beautiful salmon and what a battle.  Sam battled like a fishing pro taking around 10 minutes to get it into the boat.  My 1st mate, my son Ben did a great job coaching her during the battle to finally get it into the boat.  We had a great 3 days of fishing catching over 30 salmon and I lost track of the number of lakers.  Boated several salmon around 5 pounds.  I will post some pictures shortly.  Headed back up in a few days for the annual Lake Champlain Fishing Derby that start June 18th for 3 days.  We have to miss the first day due to my Grandson’s graduation but will hammer the fish hard Sunday & Monday.  Hope to win one of the $30,000 prizes.  Fishing has been great this spring.

If you like to catch Atlantic Salmon, book a trip with me in the next couple weeks as the salmon fishing has been great.  We’ve had record high water in Champlain this year with dirty water, logs and brush but we’re still catching great numbers of fish.  Lake is clearing up this weed and the fishing is going to get better.  Brown trout and steelhead 6 pounds & bigger are also being caught.  We haven’t started targeting the lake trout yet but expect this year someone will catch a 20 pounder.