Jeremy Wade/river Monsters, Is Filming On Champlain Now...

[webertime]

So Jeremy Wade and his crew have been down in Addison filming an episode of River Monsters... For what? Beats the heck out of me.

"I am Jeremy Wade and I am fishing for a fish that has killed dozens of fishermen by having them wake up early eating greasy breakfasts, giving them sunburns and frusterating them until they have heart attacks or diabetes or aneurysms or skin cancer... The Smallmouth Bass."

Seriously though, my bet is that they got word of the Pirahna or Pico that got caught in the area (20" or something) and doing a show on invaders/aquarium dumped fish. We have great fish up here, but nothing that isn't dramatically bigger and more abundant in other areas of the country.

[tomustang]

"Residents near Lake Champlain in New York say they have their own Loch Ness monster. They call it Champ, and it's a local legend."

[webertime]

I'm aware of the Legend of Champ. I know people that have "seen" it too. That being said fishing for a Pleseasaur is probably not what he's doing. He's actually going after Gar and Carp (couple locals watched him).

[clayton86]

Gar and carp how exiting and monstrous.............

[webertime]

So I got the backstory. There is a pool below a small dam on the Otter Creek that is about the size of a dump truck and hundreds of Longnose Gar get in there. Well there was a family in a canoe that got into that pool and there were so many Gar banging against it that it freaked them out... (Yawn)

Evidentally he did get a good Gar though (~50").

[Deleted account]

Man-eating gobies....

[grampa1114]

I saw a man eating perch, once.

[Delaware Valley Tackle]

I saw a man eating trout. He appeared to be enjoying it so I ordered some myself.

[G.F.]

They've gotta be running a little thin on material, I would imagine, but I still like the show.

Nevertheless, I would think that between "Champ," the gar, and some muskies or pike, he could put together a halfway-decent Vermonster episode...