Thanks to Tate, I'm now a celebrity on You Tube. We had three great days of weather on Lake Champlain. Not a lot of fish, but a few good ones.

We literally had the lake to ourselves. Caught this one on Wednesday. The weather was warm, but windy, so we fished mostly sheltered areas.

I made one ill advised foray onto open water. We got to the shoals but it was just too sloppy to fish. I tucked my tail between my legs and headed back to calmer water. Thursday and Friday were warm with temps in the 70s and a glassy surface on the water.

About my hat. It's a so'wester. I turned the brim up so it wouldn't cover my face as we sped from place to place. I forgot to pull it down. I was not trying to make a fashion statement. This is what it should look like.

By the way, pound for pound, compared to chain pickerel, Northern Pike are weaklings. The pickerel above took three to four times as long to get in the boat as the pike from Champlain. The pickerel was caught on six pound test, the pike on four pound test.

Nice catches guys, Congrats!!

WTG Tom and Tate!!! I like the video and the fish photos for sure... But I'm really jealous of the HAT and those BOOTS Sounded like a fun time and to get on a body of water like that with very little traffic would be awesome! Glad y'all had a good day.

Big O

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Looks like you had a great trip. I'm glad you explained about the hat. I was wondering.

Fantastic! Congrats