Tough Day 9/2
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 8:28 pm
Me and 2 buddies launched at CG on saturday. Forecast was for light and variable with calm waves. Arrived to 1-2 ft waves and a stiff wind from the south. the prior days wind had mixed the water and moved the thermo down to 90-95ft, putting all of our traditional hotspots way out of temp. We fished the same hump we always do with heavy traffic (seems the word is out on my spot thanks to my previous posts) with no luck.
Moved south and had a rod fire... brought the line in to find toilet paper on it. THE STATE OF VERMONT NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SEWAGE DUMPS INTO OUR LAKES it is outrageous that in the middle of one of the largest lakes in the USA we should encounter the remnants of human waste. We put millions of dollars into conservation, and whats the point? We cant get municipalities and the canadian yachts to dispose of their waste in a sustainable manor. It was disgusting and made me honestly question why I fish Champlain when there are cleaner inland lakes. Something needs to be done...
After that nasty adventure, we found fish just south of juniper in the trough between juniper island and juniper ledge. We pounded that area back and forth for an hour alone until a jigging charter that had been watching us for a time decided that it was polite to come fish the EXACT spot where we had hooked up 3 straight passes (like the exact spot, that we had marked on the map and crossed 3 times and hooked up each time) we tried trolling around them and had a couple releases but no committed fish. In 2 passes through with them sitting where we had been catching fish we watched them catch at least 3 lakers, and we got squat. On one pass we had a release and I flipped the rigger to up, forgot to shut it off, and it came out of the water, smacked the pulley, and snapped the rigger line, the ball and my chamberlain went to the bottom of the lake. as I was hooking up spare gear, my rigger line that I had not brought all the way in decided that the propeller looked interesting and decided to wrap 30ft of line around it. After fixing those messes and with the other boat sitting on the fish we had spent all day finding, we moved north again.
We trolled around the hump and had a few releases but nothing that stuck. We ended the day with 9 fish, the biggest just shy of 10lbs. We had at least 20 more releases throughout the day that didnt stick, including a stretch of 2hrs that I missed 8 straight fish before giving up my place in the rotation.
Moved south and had a rod fire... brought the line in to find toilet paper on it. THE STATE OF VERMONT NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SEWAGE DUMPS INTO OUR LAKES it is outrageous that in the middle of one of the largest lakes in the USA we should encounter the remnants of human waste. We put millions of dollars into conservation, and whats the point? We cant get municipalities and the canadian yachts to dispose of their waste in a sustainable manor. It was disgusting and made me honestly question why I fish Champlain when there are cleaner inland lakes. Something needs to be done...
After that nasty adventure, we found fish just south of juniper in the trough between juniper island and juniper ledge. We pounded that area back and forth for an hour alone until a jigging charter that had been watching us for a time decided that it was polite to come fish the EXACT spot where we had hooked up 3 straight passes (like the exact spot, that we had marked on the map and crossed 3 times and hooked up each time) we tried trolling around them and had a couple releases but no committed fish. In 2 passes through with them sitting where we had been catching fish we watched them catch at least 3 lakers, and we got squat. On one pass we had a release and I flipped the rigger to up, forgot to shut it off, and it came out of the water, smacked the pulley, and snapped the rigger line, the ball and my chamberlain went to the bottom of the lake. as I was hooking up spare gear, my rigger line that I had not brought all the way in decided that the propeller looked interesting and decided to wrap 30ft of line around it. After fixing those messes and with the other boat sitting on the fish we had spent all day finding, we moved north again.
We trolled around the hump and had a few releases but nothing that stuck. We ended the day with 9 fish, the biggest just shy of 10lbs. We had at least 20 more releases throughout the day that didnt stick, including a stretch of 2hrs that I missed 8 straight fish before giving up my place in the rotation.