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MFF US Northeast => Massachusetts => Topic started by: lowaccord66 on Oct 09, 2017, 06:40 PM
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A weekend trip to the northern most part of Champlain provided a challenge, great memories, and of course some pike for buddy Eric and me. We stayed at Holiday Harbor which continued to be an awesome place to stay.
The forecast a week out looked great. Light south winds, cloud cover and showers. Seemed perfect. Of course the light south wind was actually much stronger than forecast and made a few spots I wanted to check out unfishable. We persisted and ended up with a handful of pike and only pike. The 9 mile ride back to to hotel probably broke my spleen a little...
Sunday was much windier. I had decided to pull the boat rather than dock it at Bruce's figuring we may want to launch closer to the target area. That proved to be smart because we backtracked to the area we fished the evening before to find some big chop and too many floating weeds to fish in.
We made a move back very close to the Canadian border trying to escape the wind and to find some fishable water. Eventually we found a group of pike and racked up 11 or so between us in a couple hours. It poured hard to a point where visibility sucked so I decided to stay put which helped us land a few more. As soon as the sun came out the bite stopped and we called it early after seeing a few miles of brown lake water where it had previously been clear.
Here are some pics...a few from Saturday:
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Sunday was more productive for a few larger specimens but nothing life changing:
Eric was excited to get started...
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Great weekend, we are lucky we were able to get a few with the weather the way it was. Ill be returning soon when conditions are ideal because the bite is peaking. For any of the guys that love the place on ice. I was around the corner...the bite in open water is something you need to try!
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Nice looking slimers there Jon! I may make my first trip ever up that way this winter.
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Nicely written as I knew it would be. Thank you Jon, that was a blast and it's gonna be hard to compete with a weekend like that here in CT for the next bit. Looking forward to the next trip!
-Eric
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Some gorgeous fish! Congratulations!
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Nice trip Jon
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Thanks guys. Hard not to like it up there. Will you'd enjoy it. Its kind of like a massive quabbin you can ice fish on. With good ice you could effictively chase almost every freshwater sport fish in New England.
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Looks like some good fishing. Can't wait to hit there on the hardwater. Still finding it hard to drag myself away from the salt just yet. You are right Jon. When the ice is good there you can fish for anything.
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Jeff we could have easily been into 30 or 40 if the weather wasnt so rough. The bite was solid...controlling the presentations so they got hit....not as solid.
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Great post as usual Jon. Persistence and fortitude rule the day.
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Thanks Manny. On a seperate note...the border patrol efforts have been ramped up a lot. If you travel up that way 87 in NY, 89 in VT, 93 in NH have had stops. We got stopped on the way back from lakers last trip up. Not a huge deal but 78 miles from the border is slightly disconcerting. For me the traffic and towing with the 5.9 leads to a warm engine so I try to avoid them.
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Looks like a good time!!!
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Nice trip. Looks like a fun time. I haven't caught a pike in a long while. Might be feeling sick sometime soon.
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You guys got into some nice Pike. That is a long boat ride back to North hero on a rough lake. Looks like a nice trip.
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You guys got into some nice Pike. That is a long boat ride back to North hero on a rough lake. Looks like a nice trip.
It was a long one for sure! 9 miles felt like 20!
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Nice captures sir!
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Thanks Terry. Almost time for some captures up that way.
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good ones jon
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good ones jon
Thanks Bill. Any togging for you? I am getting the itch.
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just waiting till the water temps are 60 or below. 63 right now