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[gseries69]

Hello,

I found this forum while doing some musky research. I'm a new boat owner (16' Lund) and have much to learn about fishing Lake Champlain and surrounding lakes. Would be happy to have company for anyone who wants to ride along. I am a flyfisherman and have been all over chasing anything from trout to tarpon to stripers to permit to steelhead to smallmouth. Smallies on fly is a blast and I hope to learn a bunch from this forum and apply it to flyfishing. I spend a lot of time on the Cape chasing striped bass but am looking forward to spending more time in VT with the boat. My focus right now is musky on the fly and I'm excited about the restoration program in the Miss.

[schodackbassman]

Welcome aboard, will be interesting to watch how you do fly fishing for bass and those toothy things. Not to many fly fishermen here but always interested in different approaches to fishing for bass. BTW, we like pictures with reports. We have a section for other species that will have some salt water reports. I fished off Montauk this week and we had a blast. We were on a charter but there were a brave couple out in the middle of the fleet fishing of jet skies which was interesting in 6' swells! Feel free to share your salt water fishing reports too.

[rvq]

Welcome aboard.

Bob

[vtbass]

Welcome gseries69. We welcome all fishing reports here. I'm especially interested in hearing about your pursuits for muskie!

[gseries69]

Thanks all. I've been building my pike/musky fly collection and have some nice big patterns to try. Casting those patterns all day will be a challenge so I'm now looking at two handed overhead fly rods. My spey rod is a 12' 8wt that overheads fairly well but I've also used the Beulah 11' surf rods and they really excel at two handed overhead casting. The overhead rods are great for striped bass fishing too. Now I'm just trying to figure out the best weight. I'm leaning towards a 7/8 as it will throw a 400-450 grain line which sould be plenty to throw these big flies. Should be fun to tangle with pike and musky on that set up.