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:
Sunday was more productive for a few larger specimens but nothing life changing:
Eric was excited to get started...
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!
