northern lake champlain

[Andy in NY]

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anyone looking for a fishing partner on champlain???

 

[Mark_VTfisherman]

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anyone looking for a fishing partner on Champlain???

Holy smokes! You are like 10 mins from Ontario and you want to fish Champlain? That's funny to me!

Actually I'm going to be in Pulaski myself on the 29th for a charter- fishing for spring browns.

So what do you fish for? Are you looking for a partner for your boat, or for a partner with a boat? When?

 

[Andy in NY]

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Holy smokes! You are like 10 mins from Ontario and you want to fish Champlain? That's funny to me!

Actually I'm going to be in Pulaski myself on the 29th for a charter- fishing for spring browns.

So what do you fish for? Are you looking for a partner for your boat, or for a partner with a boat? When?

there are actually 2 chateaugays... freakin ny.... i am about 40 min from champlain, near malone. and to be totally honest i dont really fish for anything, i dont really know what im doing. but i like fishing and i would like to learn more about how/where/what/etc. i have a boat so i would be willing to use mine, or if someone wanted to use theirs that would be fine too.

 

[cedarjunki]

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Holy smokes! You are like 10 mins from Ontario and you want to fish Champlain? That's funny to me!

andy is only about 40 minutes from me and im on lake champlain......i wish i was close to ontario.......3 1/2 hours away
but he is really close to the st.lawerence river :/ which has some really nice fish!

but on that note, andy what are you looking for?

 

[Mark_VTfisherman]

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there are actually 2 chateaugays...i am about 40 min from champlain...i have a boat so i would be willing to use mine, or if someone wanted to use theirs that would be fine too.

What do you have for a boat? My standby is a 14' Niagara so I have to be careful with the wind forecasts, but I am always open to going out if conditions are OK. Also important is how it is set up; even if you have a 22' walleye rig if it's not set up it will be hard to catch fish. I have a 19' Starcraft too but that is not ready to fish yet, but probably have a deal on a motor.

Cedarjunki has a bigger boat.

andy is only about 40 minutes from me and im on lake champlain......i wish i was close to ontario.......3 1/2 hours away but he is really close to the st.lawerence river :/ which has some really nice fish!

Maybe a good opportunity to drag some lines.... The more the better- makes it easier to filter out the pattern of the day

 

[cedarjunki]

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andy have you ever tried the st.lawerence in waddington???
been going up there for bass, pike, walleye a few times a year....
found it more prodctive than champlain at times...

im hoping to get everything caught up very soon so i can get out.....

 

[Andy in NY]

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What do you have for a boat? My standby is a 14' Niagara so I have to be careful with the wind forecasts, but I am always open to going out if conditions are OK. Also important is how it is set up; even if you have a 22' walleye rig if it's not set up it will be hard to catch fish. I have a 19' Starcraft too but that is not ready to fish yet, but probably have a deal on a motor.

Cedarjunki has a bigger boat.



Maybe a good opportunity to drag some lines.... The more the better- makes it easier to filter out the pattern of the day

i have a 16' closed bow starcraft...

andy have you ever tried the st.lawerence in waddington???
been going up there for bass, pike, walleye a few times a year....
found it more prodctive than champlain at times...

im hoping to get everything caught up very soon so i can get out.....

in all honesty, ive only been 2 places with my boat... chateaygay lake (the family LOVES the sand bar there) and meachum lake when we were camping. Like i mentioned earlier i dont know much about fishing, so i dont venture out much. But i would like to get into it more and get out to places like the st lawerence and salmon rivers and out to champlain.

if either of you are interested in getting together sometime this summer im game... even if its just more for me to watch and learn... i would love an oppertunity and id be willing to chip in on gas/lunch/beer/soda...

 

[Mark_VTfisherman]

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Heading out for the cow banks and eagle mtn today...
predicted 1.5 - 2' seas subsiding as the day progresses

 

[Mark_VTfisherman]

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Well- Monday- three hits on my rods, a couple on my buddy's. One of my hits ran out 30 feet on the line counter in about 1/2-second.

We were running 2.3-2.8 - shallow water, 41-43.7 degrees water temp, very little baitfish clouds. I thought we weren't doing something right but then as we met other boats we discovered no one else was boating fish- a number of boats hadn't had any hits.

No landed fish! Uggh! But at least we contacted fish.

Next Champlain trip Apr 22... weather and wind permitting.

 

[zchornyak]

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Well- Monday- three hits on my rods, a couple on my buddy's. One of my hits ran out 30 feet on the line counter in about 1/2-second.

We were running 2.3-2.8 - shallow water, 41-43.7 degrees water temp, very little baitfish clouds. I thought we weren't doing something right but then as we met other boats we discovered no one else was boating fish- a number of boats hadn't had any hits.

No landed fish! Uggh! But at least we contacted fish.

Next Champlain trip Apr 22... weather and wind permitting.

Let us know how it goes. I'll be on the Lake a lot this summer, mostly the southern end, out of point bay marina. I'd love any tips on what your using to catch what. Good luck tomorrow.

 

[Mark_VTfisherman]

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April 23rd- water in the Sea 46ish and Keeler Bay 51 degrees at the surface depending on where you are. W/ sonar we didn't contact baitfish, didn't contact fish marks except off of one island. We swung back through trolling 6 lures at various depths above them... no marks anymore, no hits. We had several dozen big marks, but they didn't hang around- apparently they couldn't find baitfish either!

 

[Mark_VTfisherman]

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After two different skunks via the Inland Sea, I hit the "big lake" out of Shelburne Bay on Monday. Trolled around the point, and south. Marked a lot of fish and some bait, but no biters. I was looking at the map and figured we'd head north and check out some rocks. Beautiful water, calm, air at 70, water at 53. Five lakers came to the boat and four obliged to come in. Several other hits- but no Salmon. Apparently they were in the bay...

The one that broke 10# leader was at least 30" but the other four were under 6#

My First today:

Ramel's first today

Next time we go looking for fish in the bay...

 

[zchornyak]

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Nice catch. I'll be up there this coming Sunday to do some fishing. What were you fishing with and how deep? I assume you were pretty shallow this time of year at 53 degree water temp. I've got a lot of reading under my belt about the fishing lake but no practice. Any tips would be awesome! Thanks.

 

[Mark_VTfisherman]

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Nice catch. I'll be up there this coming Sunday to do some fishing. What were you fishing with and how deep? I assume you were pretty shallow this time of year at 53 degree water temp. I've got a lot of reading under my belt about the fishing lake but no practice. Any tips would be awesome! Thanks.

we were zigging 14 feet and zagging to 30'

I was running a Datilio spoon behind a 2" Big Jon Diver Disk about 5- 6 yards off the starboard, fishing buddy an 003 Dipsey Diver with a Michigan spoon straight back and down. I kept mine at the same 85' of line out; Ramel watched the graph and used feel to stay on the bottom according to depth. I also had a leadcore rod out and Ramel had a flatline but neither one of them had takers that stayed on.

Find bait and/or fish arches, run your lures right through them and some lines above them. No takers after changing lures etc? Go on to a different spot.

 

[Andy in NY]

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so guys, lets plan some fishing. i really want to get out to champlain but dont know where to go myself...

 

[Mark_VTfisherman]

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so guys, lets plan some fishing. i really want to get out to champlain but dont know where to go myself...

My boat is full tomorrow AM (Carmi) Saturday (maybe Carmi or Seymor) and Monday AM (Inland Sea weather permitting) but if you PM me RE: next monday (June 21) we might be going out to Champlain again- only one in the boat for that day so far.

Nailed the lakers a few times and had a great walleye excursion the other day

 

[Andy in NY]

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My boat is full tomorrow AM (Carmi) Saturday (maybe Carmi or Seymor) and Monday AM (Inland Sea weather permitting) but if you PM me RE: next monday (June 21) we might be going out to Champlain again- only one in the boat for that day so far.

Nailed the lakers a few times and had a great walleye excursion the other day

weekdays are no good... i have one of them damn annoying jobs...


but next time you have an open spot on a weekend let me know... as long as you dont mind having a newbie with you...

 

[cedarjunki]

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(June 21)

Nailed the lakers a few times and had a great walleye excursion the other day

mark you dont fish the lci?

 

[Bob_VT]

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Oh man the LCI is a marathon but, FUN!!
http://www.lciderby.com/fishing-derbies/29th-annual-fathers-day-fishing-derby

 

[Expidia]

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After two different skunks via the Inland Sea, I hit the "big lake" out of Shelburne Bay on Monday. Trolled around the point, and south. Marked a lot of fish and some bait, but no biters. I was looking at the map and figured we'd head north and check out some rocks. Beautiful water, calm, air at 70, water at 53. Five lakers came to the boat and four obliged to come in. Several other hits- but no Salmon. Apparently they were in the bay...

The one that broke 10# leader was at least 30" but the other four were under 6#

My First today:

Ramel's first today

Next time we go looking for fish in the bay...

Some nice fish there Mark . . . Good job! Well worth the hunt. If they were easy to catch, everyone would be catching them. Lakers are very elusive fish!
Do you have downriggers for when they go deep as the water heats up?