As you all may know...Champlain is a great fishery..BUT not that good! At this time in my opinion the lampreys are at their worst..every salmon and lake troutand many pike have scars on them. The fish just cannot get big here because of the lampreys. Somthing needs to be done but environmental committees won't let it happen because of the other species the lampricide will kill. Problems! The bass fishing is awesome though as far as numbers go and ther are a lot of real nice sized fish but again, they don't get to be the same size as they do in smaller ponds around the area. For what reason i don't know...maybe lampreys moving in on the warm water fish as well???