Hey Gang after a couple years break we are Game On for 2023!
Make your plans, draw your crews and get ready for the most fun to start the Frostbite season.
We will add notices and updates to this page.
2023 Frostbite Fleet
Salmon Shootout
Add your Winning name to the
Jud Swenor Memorial Trophy
Saturday November 4, Alt. 5th
Rules:
No Registration
Gentlemen's Start From Port of Choice
Confines of Lake Champlain
Fish From Sunrise with 1PM weigh in at Point Bay
Come By Water only
1-20 inch minimum Landlock taken while trolling
Heaviest fish weighed on the same scale wins
No spawning period dark salmon Please.
Bring food to share at Barbecue
Last edited by Surprise on Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:41 pm, edited 3 times in total.
just booked our hotel rooms and slip for the shootout.anyone fishing out of westport and looking for a room or slip.westport hotel,which is right next to the ramp 518-962-4501 and the westport marina which is just down the road is 518-962-4356,if you get a slip,make sure you tell them you are fishing the frostbite shootout and they will give you a discount.
as of now,wind looks good,little breezy friday,but its going to lay down for saturday,so hopefully its going to be a go!!!looking forward to seeing everyone saturday,good luck to all!!!
SATURDAY...South winds 5 to 10 knots, becoming light and variable.
Mostly cloudy. Waves 1 foot or less.
Land Forecast: Saturday Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53. Southwest wind 6 to 8 mph.
Keep your fingers crossed!
Hope to see Your smiling face on the Podium.
Please say Hi as after 2 years off. I may have forgotten your name
It will be Great to Assemble Again to kick off a Great Frostbite Season!
I'm bringing a Ham and sandwich fixings, Kathy is making her Baked beans and Chocolate chip squares. I have Plates, Cups, Plastic ware. If you bring a serving spoon or dish be sure to bring it back home or you may have some explaining to do.
We are going to set up in the walkway at the top of the Dock Ramp. I have saw horses, ladders and plywood for our serving tables. There is no electricity available but Point Bay has provided a porta potty by the Pavillion.
Thanks to Ron Winter "Keeper of Records"
Reggie Swenor "Conservator of the Jud Swenor Memorial Trophy"
My Boat Crew on Surprise &"Officials of Weights and Measures": Al Morehouse & Bill Lowell,
Point Bay, Todd Smith and Crew for Hosting us!
Vermont, New York Fish & Game,
US Fish & Wildlife for Providing us this Unique Fishery
Several questions about where to launch and where the weigh in are:
Point Bay is Full of boats already in storage with no area to park a vehicle or trailer.
Most Frostbiters use Converse Bay as a launch with plenty of parking and a launch retrieval dock.
This year with 96 ft water gives ample water to float there.
Ft. Cassin in Big Otter Creek is another option but no dock.
To come in to the award ceremony hook up at any open slip, Come up the dock and we are set up in the walkway with serving tables and a weigh in award station.
Be at the Weigh in Promptly at 1:00 PM If you are late you are OUT!
Good luck to everyone at the Shootout. Have fun and be safe. Wish I could be up there with you all. Down here in So. Maine everyone puts their boats away by mid October. I've fished Sebago late with no one on the lake generally. L.L. closes for catch and keep on 9/30 and can catch and release from 10/1 to 3/31. I have no problem with catch and release, but, I do like to eat a L.L. occasionally.
Michael
