JUNE 16TH & 17TH CHARTER, CAPTAIN'S REPORT

The Captain’s report

Took out Lance and crew fishing , Monday and Tuesday

Monday;  

Lines in at 7:00 am, and pulled at 1:00 pm.   Did 16 lakers, 7 colors of lead off the boards, upper riggers set at 35' down, 60' back 

Bottom riggers set, bouncing bottom, 25' back
All gear fired.
All green !!!

Tuesday; 
Crew wanted to chase salmon. Lines in at 8:00 am
Lines pulled at 12:00 pm
Big spread 8 lines
Lead 5 colors off boards
Lite bite 60' back, 100' out
Upper riggers set at 11' down, 50' back
Bottom set 33' down, 25' back with free slider cheaters.
 Most productive lure was BB Guns Watermelon copper .
Hooked up 8 salmon
Biggest fish 4.5 pounds

Great weather with calm waters.

 Nice job boating all these fish guys !

Picture source-https://www.facebook.com/WCAXTV/posts/10154236818570442

Thanks for stopping by.

Captain Pete

JUNE 11, 2014 CHARTER

I met Jake and two of his close fishing buddies at coastguard launch in Burlington. 

We set our first line at 7:00 am. It wasn't to long before we netted our first trout.  

I worked a 60' hump in one of my favorite hot spots. 

The fish where actively feeding near the bottom and also suspended at 30 down. I set lead core line with 6 colors out on both planner boards. I found that large Michigan Stinger lures with a alewives glow pattern, silver back set 25' back worked best on the bottom. Upper riggers seem to be most productive with a blue, black, silver set 60' back.  The fish seemed to have also wanted  a brass orange black patterned lure,  we call this lure "Charlie Brown". It worked real well on the boards set on the lead core.  

All gear fired today!  

As the day progressed I moved my upper riggers down 5' and put out another color of lead to stay with the fish as they moved deeper in the water. 

I must say Jake and his crew did a great job with boating there catch aboard the Missy Jean. They where able to take home their limits of lake trout and some great memories of a beautiful day on Lake Champlain.

Thanks for stopping by.

Captain Pete

LAKE CHAMPLAIN WINTER PIKE ROUND-UP

As we all know (or maybe you don't) this winter in Northern Vermont on Lake Champlain has seen some below average temperatures, creating thick ice on the lake.

We have had very little difficulties getting around.

The weather was 20 degrees with nearly no wind to speak of.

Here we are setting up tip-ups, are target fish was Northern Pike.

In a short amount of time we were chasing flags, fish on!!

We had out 28 tip-ups which left us a little time to jig.

My electronics proved to stand true with the yellow perch bite.

This devise is a Lowrance Elite X4 ice machine, great product.

Another flag up!

The Captain got a good look at this one!!

Fish fry at the Captain's house.

This was the view on last look for the day.

With the ice being so thick we should be getting out for more ice fishing through the end of March.

Contact me if you would like to experience ice fishing on Lake Champlain.

Currently booking ice fishing and open water charters, don't miss out on the 2014 season.

Thanks for stopping by.

Captain Pete

Lake Champlain Trout Scout Charters

ICE FISHING ON LAKE CARMI

Had an opportunity to get together with some friends for some early ice fishing on Lake Carmi in Franklin Vermont.

The fish were plenty and the company was great.

Some real jumbos were caught and brought home for dinner, good eats!!

This is Matthew preparing our catch for a photo op.

Thanks Justin, Matthew and Pete for a great experience of fishing on Lake Carmi.

Thanks for stopping by.

Captain Pete

MAKING ICE ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN

Well we all know what comes after fall here on Lake Champlain..

The Captain wanted to share a few photographs, transformation to hard water.

Thanks for stopping by.

Captain Pete

THE CAPTAINS GRAND BABY'S FIRST BOAT RIDE

Captain Pete took out the little granddaughter for a ride on the Missy Jean.

It was a beautiful,  fall day.

The lake was calm and the sun was shining for our special ride.

Of course this little one can drive her Papa's boat anytime, indeed!!!

Captain looks forward to some fishing with the little one in 2014 from the boats edge, stay tuned.

This is her first experience with a fishing pole, she caught a perch!!

1 1/2 years old!!!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Captain Pete

CATCH UP ON FALL FISHING 2013

Trying to catch up on some fishing stories and some photographs from the fall of 2013.

Beautiful shot of our green mountains.

Found a few fish in 134 feet of water,with surface water temperature of 60 degrees.

One foot chop with temperature around 60 degrees.

Beautiful day for fishing.

These two young guys managed to catch their limit and then some.

Look at this smile...

Doubles on!!!

The Captain says "job well done"

Another charter for the books.

Another beautiful day for fishing.

Sunny skies with temperatures around 70 with calm waters, doesn't get much better than this.

Salmon were the target fish for the day.

Had an opportunity to go fishing on the Cathy Jean with Captain Thorny.

Several beautiful salmon were caught.

Thanks Captain!!

Well this covers it for the 2013 season, what a season it was.

All posts for the the 2013 season are just some of the highlights.

Looking forward to 2014, but for now the Captain will be doing some ice fishing, stay tuned for some of that.....

As always, thanks for stopping by.

Captain Pete

Lake Champlain Trout Scout Charters