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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 [...] Between the Bass Open that ended Saturday and the FLW a week earlier, an awful lot bass had been relocated to the northern end of Champlain recently. How was the fishing likely to hold up in the lower end? How long can the VT and NY Fisheries managers keep allowing the size selective relocation of LMB [...] I may be one of the only bass fishermen who spends much time on the lower end of Champlain, who doesn’t spend most of he spring in backwaters or set-backs. I’m always more comfortable with 8 or 10 or 20 feet of water under the boat than 3 or 4 feet, and I’ve always been able to find more than enough pre and post spawn fish out on the drops and weed edges, to keep me happy. Until this weekend, anyway. View the entire post — An out-of-character, Champlain 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 For those not old enough to remember, 45 years or so ago, there was a TV show entitled TW3, which stood for This Was The Week That Was. Figured I’d borrow the title for this week. In any case, my fishing results over the past week or so have been varied. I started at a pond in Northwest CT, on a rainy Saturday, and had a way better than average day. View the entire post — TW3 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. I wasn’t planning on a Champlain trip this weekend until a buddy invited me to ride up with him. We ended up taking his truck and my boat. Judging by last week’s muddy water reports, I wanted to get as far north as possible within the lower lake area, to get away from all the mud. The extra early morning driving time to get to the Chimney Point launch though, put our arrival after the local tourneys had started, and my preferred #1 spot was occupied by 3 boats. Sigh. 2nd choice produced nothing. But on the third spot, I hooked what felt like and splashed like a big fish under a dock. Unfortunately, my skip cast with 8# line had skipped too high, and taken a route over an above water cross member, and the line failed very quickly, so she got to stay under the dock, albeit with a 1/8 oz jighead and a 4″ grape worm hanging from her jaw. Sigh Went to check on choice 1 again. Still 2 of the original 3 boats there. Sigh Choice 4, 5 & 6? No boats — probably because probing around with a lure seems to indicate that there doesn’t appear to be any fish at any of them, either. Sigh Put the boat on the trailer and headed south to the Ti ramp by 10. Muddy water or not, we needed a change. View the entire post — Another Champlain Weekend. |
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