Fished Champlain in the Willsboro area over the weekend. Didn't bring the boat, so stuck to shoreline fishing. Fished at the mouth of the Boquet River on Saturday evening and hooked loads of smallies. The river is full of them, all though I caught nothing of substantial size. Went to the tip of Willsboro Point on Sunday and hooked a few smallies, but as is custromary, lost the biggest one of the weekend. Fished primarily jerk baits and texas rigged worms. Everything worked on the smallies. Talked to a couple of guys trolling just off of the point that were constantly hooked up. They were taking lakers on floating/diving crankbaits(smaller,maybe J 9's) in Rainbow Trout patterns just above the thermocline on downriggers. They didn't tell me how deep the thermocline is at this point of the year, but I can tell you that the water is incredibly cold right now. Can't wait to get back up there and try again. Anybody else been up there this year???
