has anybody seen ice in Champlain valley?
Some of the marshes and swamps had a coating a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't seen any on anything bigger than a puddle otherwise. There was no sign of any icing on Champlain itself yesterday, not even along the shore.
Big pike are all over the place though- might be sacrilege to say on an ice fishing forum, but fall is really my favorite fishing time. Those monster northern pike get the pulse pounding.
Didn't see the fish itself, but there was one chasing the lure just at the end of the retrieve and very near the boat that created a bow wave ahead of it and just imagining the fish it would take to make that wave will keep me going back until the freeze.