Winter

Hi Guys,

How's is everyone, Happy and Healthy I hope. Speaking of health, I've had a few health issues recently so that is why this update is a little late. But winter is here, and we have plenty of ice!! So, I'm ready for ice fishing..

Looking Back

You must admit, as far as the" weather" is concerned each year is getting worse and worse and I mean everything. Our year started out with tons of rain, so much so that almost every stream, river, lake and pond were at or near flood stages and for the whole spring!! Most of the time it was a heavy cold rain and nasty, but boy did we catch fish. BIG ones too and in almost all species!! If you go to our website and look at last spring's update, you will see the photos. Then suddenly sometime in early June the rains stopped and we hardly had a drop of rain. This dry spell continued until early November !!! Needless to say that brought on one of our longest droughts ever!! June's temperatures soared and we had a few days in the 90's, much hotter then it was in July or August and the surface temps on the lake were up to 80 degrees or more. BY the end of September a number of launch ramps had to close because the water was so low. In early October we sent you the last update,anticipating our fall fishing ahead, BUT, about a week later the DEC pulled in all the ramps. We tried to go out anyway but we damaged a couple of our boats so we had to close for the year. It was just too dangerous. So what you see in the fishing photos here are just in a two week period. No fall bite at all. We just couldn't get out there!!!

Ice Fishing

We have ice and have been frozen for quite a while. As of this writing we have almost a foot of ice!! Here are some of the photos from last winter. Almost all of these photos are from our pond behind the lodge. In the 47 years we've been in business our pond has always frozen over , not so with Lake Champlain. In recent years only the shallow bays have frozen over. But most lakes in the northeast do not have safe ice BUT we do!!Our basic package includes 3 days ice fishing 2 nights lodging 4 meals ONLY $295.00 per person. and you can't beat the price!!! We do not offer guide service with our winter packages but we do have ice fishing equipment for you to use, if needed.

Spring Booking

I know this is early but if there are any of you who are planning on coming up to fish with us this year PLEASE BOOK EARLY!! Let me know as soon as possible. Especially all of you guys that have been joining us for many years. We definitely don't want to disappoint you.. This is only because we just don't have many guides anymore. we had up to 14 guides....now we are just down to a few. This is only for the guys that need guide service. If you are just coming up to fish on your own, there is no problem. Before we start our 48th year I would like to thank each and everyone of you who came to fish with us, many of you have been coming for almost 40 years. You are really like family to us... Well, guys we want to wish you all HAPPY HOLIDAY AND A GREAT NEW YEAR.

Hope to see you soon, Pete

E-Mail

After all these years we will soon be getting high speed internet. Our e-mail has changed from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to "This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." So please write down our new email now.