I can tell you that Champlain was fishing as weak as I've ever seen her when
I was there Rich. Despite the obvious weather barriers I encountered, the
bite was way, way off. Don't get thinking that just because it "IS
Champlain" that the pond can't be affected by heavy pressure. Many pros I
talked to were coming to that realization, and were relating the fact that
you had to find "your own" stuff if you wanted to kick butt on the big lake.
Community holes are dryin up & virtually all charted stuff was getting
pounded into remission. The lake is still great, but record numbers of
anglers & tourneys are starting to take thier toll as well.

Conversely, I can't wait till my next visit up there.

Warren




"RichZ" wrote in message
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To paraphrase some singer or other, potential fishing days are dwindling
down top a precious few. I can count on my fingers (and maybe a toe or
two) the number of days I'll get to spend on the water the remainder of
this year. And now it looks like I'll have to cancel all my plans this
weekend because of the steenking, lousy, weather. Supposed to get 2+
inches of rain tomorrow, accompanied by 30+mph winds, and Sunday it's
supposed to clear up, but get windier. SIGH. This after last weekend's
Champlain trip got screwed up by 8 inches of rain on the 2 days before I
got there. The southern end of the lake was the exact color of brown kraft
paper. Sigh. We caught a 30 or so anyway (it IS Champlain after all) but
it was nothing like the same weekend last year.