This is a huge mat of Water Chestnuts up at Lake Champlain, thought I'd share the pic with all of you. The shirt is a past track team shirt for our middle school...I borrowed someone's saying...Mike Someone???? I though all fisherman might enjoy this, not just those in the Northeast...THX! Not kowing much about Water Chestnuts...boy are they nasty with those little sharp black pods. I brought a few home to remind me of the trip. If you don't know what I am talking about, check out this link. They are avery invasive plant, and they actually MOW the Lake To get rid of them.  I remember a few years back, Steve Kennedy said he was on fish, but his best spot got mowed!!!!  OUCH!   Enjoy-

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Jamie

OMG dude, don't show me that i almost fell out! Can you say flippin' stick heaven!!!!!!!

Dink,if you like that, you need to make your way over here and fish garcia, we've got matted hydrilla that looks like a well manicured lawn.

Dink,if you like that, you need to make your way over here and fish garcia, we've got matted hydrilla that looks like a well manicured lawn.

Dude, seriously, your gunna make me call in to work tomorrow!!!!    ;D

Dink,if you like that, you need to make your way over here and fish garcia, we've got matted hydrilla that looks like a well manicured lawn.

Dude, seriously, your gunna make me call in to work tomorrow!!!! ;D

MWAHAHAHA. I've got tomorrow off.

Beautiful

looks like my pond except greener. I need a GULLY washer here bad,Dont get me wrong i like this stuff but when all my (littleboat) does is push up huge piles of it it gets old ,i gotta push pole it 50 yards out of shallow water to get to anything worth fishing

We used the wind to drift us across the mats, then we'd run around and do it again, just to one side or another. We had the big motor up, and the trolling motor acted as a drift sock. At the end of the drift (when pic was taken)- I pulled up the trolling motor, and used Fiskar Scissors to cut the Chestnuts off the motor. If we weren't hitting 3-4 bass per drift, I would have said "heck with that", but bass, and pike were coming up to hit our frogs. We had one pike missile out of the water 6 times on 6 cast...rather pull in a bass, but the pike sure gave us a fun time too.

Biggest we got were a 5-3, and a 4-4. Could Probably do 20-25 lbs here if you methodically worked it. Long run down from Plattsburgh.

PCE

Here's another pic for your enjoyment.  It was amazing to see all the frog trails after we had covered and area.

That almost looks like a green on a golf course.  

It was sick, and I couldn't wait to get back the next day. The hits were every couple of minutes, but they were awesome. My 4-4 struck right at the boat, and nearly scare the day lights out of me. But it was a nice fish. Here it is, not the biggest, but a great fish for me.

Did you catch more fish or more grass?

Grass...with the occasional bass, but the picking/cutting it off was well worth the memories.