Lonely Lunker Winner

Gotta toot my horn.
Winner, winner....Chicken Dinner!
That nice 8.22 pound Landlocked I pulled from Lake Champlain got me a Lonely Lunker prize in the Lake Champlain International All-Season Tournament.

Giddy up!

Another look at her:

She's still at the taxidermists.  I'll post a pic when I have the mount.

Next week-end is the 3rd annual Frostbite Salmon Shoot-out.  Weather permitting.
I landed a 3rd place fish last year...but have plans to clean house this year!

Fish on, Fish H8 me.
Raz 

Lonely Lunker Winner

BETTER THAN WATCHING SQUIRRELS

Yesterday was opening day of the 2010 Vermont Firearms Deer Hunting Season.
Since I gave up hunting several years ago, I decided to drag some steel on Lake Champlain in hopes of picking up some Landlocked Atlantic Salmon, Steel-head, and Brown Trout.

As I trolled by Jon, he shot this picture of me...Thanks Jon!

What a beautiful day on the lake.  Virtually no winds, very slight chop, and temps that got up into the 40's! (It was 27° F when I left the house shortly after day-break.)

I didn't set the world on-fire but enjoyed fishing on the lake.  I ended the day with a half dozen "clone" Landlocked Salmon and a few Lake Trout.  I kept two of the clones to enjoy on the grill, and found plenty of help cleaning them from two of our Grand-daughters when I got home.

Haley is showing off two of the twenty small alewife's we found in the stomach contents of one of the fish!

Makayla, proudly displaying one of G-Pa's catches!

Thanks for the help girls!

Fish on, fish H8 me.
Raz

BETTER THAN WATCHING SQUIRRELS

BIG BEAUTIFUL LAKE CHAMPLAIN BROWN TROUT

What a big beautiful Lake Champlain Brown Trout.  Absolutely the finest specimen I've seen from the jewel we call Lake Champlain.

Theresa Bilodeau was trolling on the Inland Sea with her husband Matt.  They were in the third day of the Lake Champlain International Derby when the fish hit a black and white Hi-Tech with a purple stripe, running behind the stealthy Lite Bite Slide Diver.
Theresa's fish weighed an impressive 5.78 pounds, the largest I've seen from Champlain!  Although it was the largest Brown Trout entered into the derby, it fell short of "placing", due to the derby not having a separate category for Brown Trout, and it had to be entered into the salmon category.

Theresa and Matt decided to give the catch a permanent place in thier home, on the wall.  I would have done the same!

Congratulations Theresa on a fine catch!

Fish on, fish H8 me.
Raz

BIG BEAUTIFUL LAKE CHAMPLAIN BROWN TROUT