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Lake Champlain Fishing Reports
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Largemouth BassTechniqueFrogs/ToadsSeasonSummerStructureMatted Grassin the southern basin bass frogs and punching were the techniques I used with frogs doing the best. Caught pike and bowfin on the punch rig. When the sun came out wacky rig started producing around docks and weed lines
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Smallmouth BassTechniqueDrop ShotSeasonSummerStructureLedgesHot, hazy day with steady wind. Fish were suspended mid-column, in water up to 40ft.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueFootball JigsSeasonSummerStructureBoulders
Perfect combo for picking apart boulders in late summer. Perfect craw snack for big largies!
SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueNed RigsSeasonSummerStructurePilingsTossing Ned rigs around bridge pilings. Fish were feeding agressive on this and drop shots.
- SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueBladed JigsSeasonSummerStructureSubmerged Vegetation
Keep the shallow ones honest this time of year. There’s always some big ones cruising eating perch around sparse grass!
SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueWacky RigsSeasonSummerStructureSubmerged VegetationTossing wacky worms in grass patches throughout the gut. Hooked up with many bass and a lot of chain pickerel. Kept the lines tight!
Gordon BocashBronze AmbassadorSpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueSoft Body Swimbaits (Large)SeasonFallStructureSubmerged VegetationI was using a Carolina rig on a Lew's signature series 7'6" MH rod with a Lew's 7.5 hypermag casting reel with tour grade 40lb braid and a 3 foot 17lb contra mono leader and a 3/4oz tungsten weight with a 3.0 hook rage craw in green pumpkin fished slow in 12 to 15 fow with weeds a shell mixed bottom.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueNed RigsSeasonSummerStructureSubmerged Vegetation
Took my father (a lifelong live bait angler) to Champlain for a weekend. He’s never caught fish with any regularity on ANY artificial presentation. He hadn’t even heard of a Ned rig. Let me tell you this man out fished both myself AND our guide, throwing this single soft plastic! Don’t get me wrong we all caught some good fish, but he caught the biggest bag of all of us on the boat. 7-8 hours on the boat, one single plastic.
