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All About Bowfin And More On Lake Champlain(posted August, 2010) I have been fly-fishing for only 15 years but, like a lot of late converts, I’m a fanatic. I own far too much gear, and I have fished in quite a few places: my home state of New York, Maine, the British Virgin Islands, California, British Columbia and other points near and far. But I’d never fished in neighboring Vermont. So, when The Angling Report offered a FREE Fishing trip with two days of guided fly fishing on Lake Champlain and its Vermont tributaries, I was raring to go. North Central Vermont is a trout fisherman’s paradise, but I was told from the get-go that variety was the goal of my trip. Depending on timing and weather conditions, we might do anything from wade-fish rivers for smallmouth bass to sight fish for carp, bowfin and northern pike in the shallow marshes bordering Lake Cham- plain. Frankly, I’d never even heard of a bowfin before my trip, and the only way I knew about fly fishing for carp was by talking to my good friend, Angling Report Honor Roll Subscriber Tim Welch. He has been touting carp (“redneck bonefish”) on a fly for years. As for northerns, who hasn’t seen those YouTube clips of pike striking so ferociously? John Synott, the owner of Stream and Brook, and my guide, Drew Price, wanted to know my fishing experience, physical abilities and preferences so they could craft a battle plan – subject to weather, of course. Ideally, at least one of the two days would be warm and sunny for the sight fishing.....
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