Elite series Lake Champlain

[Reel]

22 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

How have I not seen a pike yet ??? 

More pike when they fished Mississquoi bay.  Robertson looks like he's on a foot valve pattern also.  At one time, you could go from one little floating bleach bottle to another and catch fish on a lot of them.  

[F14A-B]

Seth is in 10th

Zaldain is 6th

Brothers Johnston are 1 and 4

 

Swindle just caught a 4 pounder and is 26th

 

Trey is 23rd. 

Zaldain back in the lead. 

[TnRiver46]

Robertson with a bowfin! Thats what im talking about! 😂 

 

I love the toothy critters

[TnRiver46]

Loughran making frog trails in the cheese

[TnRiver46]

Zaldain has a chance to win and is taking Schmitt and his fish in 

[TnRiver46]

Robertson got 20 lbs, pays to fish near toothy critters 

[TnRiver46]

Robert Gee is amazing, can’t fathom his being from Knoxville! 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

If pinging a minnow is in play, Robert Gee is definitely going to be in contention.   I've never seen him do well without that technique though.

Toledo Bend, Smith Lake, and Champlain have all been great derbies for him.   

[Dan N]

Well at least I’ll have something to check in on during work tommorow. Pretty tight top ten.

[bowhunter63]

Well didn’t make the top ten . But we tried 

[webertime]

On 8/11/2024 at 8:41 AM, TnRiver46 said:

How have I not seen a pike yet ??? 

Pike on Champlain have been getting destroyed for years by ice fisherman (just throwing them on the ice), pike shooting (with a gun) and bow fishing.   DNR is aware of the pike being wiped out.  Tench eat their nests too.  It's bad up here for pike.

[gim]

46 minutes ago, webertime said:

It's bad up here for pike.

 

Its bad here too.  But a different type of bad.  Way too many small ones.

[F14A-B]

I remember when the state of Indiana put in Tiger musky I think in Patoka res. In the late 70’s they grew quite large and a lot of people caught them. The lake opened up in 1980. Thankfully they couldn’t reproduce and after about 10 years you never heard about them anymore..

[gim]

That's a andvantage to stocking tiger muskies.  They can't naturally reproduce, so if you want them removed, eventually mother nature will just run its course.

[F14A-B]

14 minutes ago, gimruis said:

That's a andvantage to stocking tiger muskies.  They can't naturally reproduce, so if you want them removed, eventually mother nature will just run its course.

Why is that I wonder? Why can’t they reproduce? 

[MN Fisher]

8 minutes ago, alonerankin2 said:

Why is that I wonder? Why can’t they reproduce? 

It's like a horse/donkey cross - a mule. Northerns and Muskie are close enough that they can interbreed, but just far enough that the progeny is sterile.

[F14A-B]

8 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

It's like a horse/donkey cross - a mule. Northerns and Muskie are close enough that they can interbreed, but just far enough that the progeny is sterile.

Thanks, always something interesting to learn on BR..

[Choporoz]

On 8/11/2024 at 7:28 AM, Ski said:

Wes Logan gives update on boat accident               https://www.bassmaster.com/top-video/video/wes-logan-gives-update-on-boat-accident/

He's posted video of the accident on FB and Tiktok.  Scary stuff.  

[gim]

2 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

He's posted video of the accident on FB and Tiktok.  Scary stuff.  

 

I am not on either one of those.  Can you post the video here?

[F14A-B]

I know it’s counterintuitive but I’ve often wondered if a seatbelt would be helpful.. on these boats that rarely capsize.. but idk..

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/NGrPWRpogXFWkrKA/?

I can’t narrow it down anymore than that.. 

[Choporoz]

15 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 

I am not on either one of those.  Can you post the video here?

 

 

[Tennessee Boy]

I don’t usually find weight-ins very interesting but this one will be good.

 

Do you think anyone outside of the top 3 could be sandbagging and be in contention?

[AlabamaSpothunter]

What a trainwreck BASS's IT team is.....half the time these weigh ins are screwed up

 

This sucks.  

[PhishLI]

BASS needs to steal away MLFs production team. Gee wiz. It's like UHF versus cable. You'd need to be born in the 60s to get that reference.🙃

[AlabamaSpothunter]

This is simply unacceptable, man that sucks for the fans!