"Not only did I catch this 6 lb beauty in the morning on a Rebel Pop-R but I also caught LOADS! of 4 & 5 lb'ers all day long! All the fish were caught on the edge of the weedlines, in about 10 feet of water. If you have fished Lake Champlain you know the surface slop I'm talking about. By the way Snagproof 1/2 ounce tourney frogs are great dragging through this slop. I was also using a 1/2 ounce Roland Martin twin bladed buzzbait (Chartruese) and I missed a couple lunkers that stopped my heart, I would guess some of the fish that came up and exploded on my buzzbait were pushing 10 pounds, a couple were probaly more than 10 pounds.

    The key is to fish the weedlines where the really thick weeds end and when you look into the water you can still see patches of weed growth about 2 feet below the surface, the water depth is about 10 -12 feet, the surface commotion just annoys the heck out of these huge fish! Another very productive method is to drag a Strike King Elite 1/2 ounce spinner bait through these weeds make sure to hit the spinner bait against the weeds this is when the bass or northern pike nail your lure. As soon as November arrived and it got very cold EVERYTHING just went into a complete shutdown mode. The best time is from beginning of September to late October, the fish just need to bulk up for the winter. Once that ice thaws its gonna be spring lunker time once again." Sincerely, Jeff Lankford