My buddy Mike Castillo and I decided to do some smallmouth fishing last weekend so we headed up to the Champlain Islands early Saturday morning. I had never launched fom this particular ramp before so I left the navigating to Mike. "I know right where it is," he said, "I practiced up here with Curt Lytle a couple of years ago" - I had forgotten about the time he got us lost in the woods using a compass. After replaying the "lost backstage" scene from Spinal Tap, we managed to get the boat in the water and were off.The lake was slick and calm - something that doesn't happen on Champs very often. We pulled up on a flat in about 12-15 feet of water and began throwing topwater baits - I was throwing a Giant Dog X and Mike was throwing a Sammy 100. After a few casts Mike hooked up with a good fish (about 3.5 pounds) and shortly after I caught a nice 4 pounder - and it did not stop for 8 hours!
four pound topwater fish
We caught a few more on topwaters, then on tubes, then on dropshots; it was just awesome - The best one of the weekend was a gorgeous, football-shaped smallie that I caught dropshotting a 3"Roboleech and 6lb Vicious Fluorocarbon line. It weighed about 5 pounds 4 ounces - just an awesome smallmouth. This turned out to be one of those days where your hand is tired, your elbow is sore, and your thumb is raw. We ended up catching somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 smallies, most of which were good fish - only a few "rats." Just a great day of smallmouth fishing. By the way - we got lost leaving the ramp, too.....how does that happen? Here are a couple of videos from the day.
giant drop-shot smallmouth
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Man, that sounds like a pretty decent day, alright! Once in a while you can have days like that out here on Brownlee Reservoir on the Oregon/Idaho border - sure does spoil a person.
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