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Cloudless, bluebird skies and not a wisp of wind. It’s not the conditions you would expect to catch smallies on top in, but that’s exactly what happened today. Mostly it was soft jerkbaits, worked along or just under the surface, but this one hit a Sammy splashing across the top. Also caught them on grubs fished on [...] My son Tom & I fished Champlain this weekend. The weather was cloudy and warming on Saturday, and rainy on Sunday. Wind didn’t blow enough either day to be a factor at all. Everything pointed to this being an exceptional fishing weekend. Except it wasn’t. It wasn’t even average. Mediocre. That’s probably the best word to describe it. That and [...] This weekend was kind of a return to the places I used to fish. Candlewood, for one. Love the fishery, and considered it my home waters for the better part of two decades. But I just can’t put up with the crowds any more, and being limited to fishing weekends for the most part, I almost never make it out on ‘the wood’ these days. View the entire post — Returning to my roots. Saturday, 7/3I joined Steve and Dave heading out of the Connecticut River for stripers, with a backup plan of fishing for fluke if the stripers weren’t hot. A couple schoolies on a jerkbait before leaving the river, then we each got a decent one early when we found them pushing bait under birds on a reef off Clinton. View the entire post — Independence Day Weekend My buddy Mike joined me for the trek up to Ti this past weekend. We picked up my son Tom in Fair Haven, VT at 7:15 or so on Saturday morning, and were in the water at Ti by 8. Saturday’s weather was dead-on perfect for late season smallie fishing. Not really warm, but not oppressively cold, either. Dead calm, and for the morning anyway, intermittent sprinkles. The sprinkles got a little harder and less intermittent around noon, and by 2:30 or so, it was a serious rain. Not a deluge, but a steady, moderately hard rain. Barometer was dropping all day, and water temp was mid-to-high-40s. View the entire post — Champlain Smallies It’s been so long since I posted something on the blog, you might think I haven’t been fishing in a couple weeks or more. I did get kind of lost on the dark side, fishing salt water for a couple consecutive weekends, but have been fooling with river smallies more recently. I love the late season, when the fish in rivers (and many impoundments) really stack up in specific, deep holding areas. Location becomes automatic, and catching them becomes a matter of really tuning and tweaking your presentation to tempt bites from fish that are not very active in 45 degree water. View the entire post — Wow. It’s been a while… We had the first real, nasty cold front of the fall move in here yesterday, and it kind of sat on us for today, making today a classic, tough fishing day. Decided that a river would be a better place to fish than a lake under these conditions, so my buddy Jim & I set out [...] Overall, despite a slow Saturday afternoon, the hot and muggy weekend just past was the best Champlain trip of the year for us. So far, anyway. My wife & I drove up Friday night, and Tom, his wife and grand-daughter met us at Sportsman’s Cabins just about daybreak on Saturday. Saturday, August 15Tom and I dropped his boat in the water at the Chimney Point ramp a few minutes later, and proceeded to our chosen starting spot with smallies on our minds. The early start seemed to help Tom a lot more than it helped me. View the entire post — Champlain in a heat wave. |
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