Fished with 2 guys from Mass today, Jay and Matt. We had a GREAT DAY ON THE WATER!! We landed 29 salmon and trout from 5:30 - Noon. 8 FAT 3 year olds. a bunch of 2 year olds and some rats. Lakers up to 22.5 inches and a rainbow 15.5in. We Released all the fish we could today. Ended up keeping 1 18in. salmon, a 20in. laker, and the rainbow, and 1 1.75lb. white perch. They had taken hooks in the gills and were bleeding before getting in the boat.

I didn't weigh any of the fish we were going to throw back but all the 3 year olds were in the 20-21in. 3-4Lb. range. They are really putting on weight now and the jaws are hooking up and they are getting darker these are some of the best looking fish of the year.

Best lures were yellow, gold/orange, and silver/gold.
Fished from 34-58 feet depending on sun angle and intensity.

The thermocline is INSANE right now there is a 15 degree break from 32-35 feet. It is 73 degrees from surface to 32 feet. Then 58deg. for a few feet then 55deg. down to 80+ feet. The fish can be anywhere in a 50 foot swath. watch your finders for them and go after them. Most fish were landed with 4'10" ultra lights.

Here is the Best looking Female 3 yr old of the day. She put on a serious show stripping out 50 feet of line a few times and jumped way out 4 times.

Awesome pics! Nuff said.

Good job like allways!!

Charlie

best day I have read about in a while!

awesome job as usual are the smaller lures still working well or is it time to start scaling the size up i used the smelt gun exclusively wed thu fri last week and did very well.

Yes small stuff still great. The baby smelt are still quite small but most of the white perch are putting on some size and are almost identical to a top gun right now. You can't go wrong with either one.

I have been marking bait lately in winni like i have never seen before and it shows in the fish. Every week they get noticably fatter and fatter.

Things are great on the Big Lake right now.

thanks last time out i saw a couple dead fish2 inches long i also saw as acouple of fish got near the boat little 1 inch fish coming out their mouths as someone whos done this for a while is there a pattern yearly as to the size lures you use are larger lures going to dominate september?thanks again the info you share here has put me on the fish consistantly.

In my limited experience we have been told and find it true, small spoons in summer and pretty much the rest of the season, with the addition of small (single) streamers in late August til the fat lady sings.. Last September 3 or 4 Salmon over 5 pounds, all on small streamers, before that, late July, August, we killed them on Sutton #5's. Wid not use Smelt Guns last year, but found them to be really good this summer and will use them the rest of the year.

There are smaller DB Smelt's (Mini DB's) they would be the best spoon going, but they aren't available yet, I guess still in the testing stage I guess..

Bottom line, in my limited, but practical experience, "little lures, big fish".

Hope to see ya on Winni sometime next month .

John S.

Great day guys, we Mass guys (or flatlanders as we are sometimes called) realy appreciate a good fishing trip on Winni with one of NH's best guides putting us onto the fish. I can truly say I have never had a bad trip with you or Trav, lots of fun, great fishing and plenty of good memories..

Sounds like those guys had a blast, another good memory was made.

John S.