Fished The First Connecticut Lake Sat, Sun and Mon and we did pretty well. Caught a bunch of salmon varying in size from very small to about 20" and a couple good lakers. ALL the fish seemed very healthy and the biggest was a real fat female.
I was running all leadcore setups mainly because I had a large group on the pontoon including 4 kids under 5 yoa. I never set the riggers up once and didn't feel like I needed to.
We fished from 3 to 5 colors all weekend and the hot color was once again the silver DB with the black and purple stripe and black eye. I don't know what it is about that lake with these colors but we catch more on that color than everything else combined(including live bait) and I ran all different variations all weekend.
As far as location on the lake, we did the best right outside the "south bay"(not the bay the ramp is in.
Look at a map of the lake and you will see what I mean)as well as the sand bar to the east.