I used to live walking distance to Lake Champlain. Awesome bass fishing. Popular for lakers too if you've got a boat. We used to get out of work at 11pm and a bunch of us would shore fish (and drink) all night from the sandbar bridge. Good times.
You should take a day and do some trout fishing in some of the small streams when you're up there - I miss that a lot.
The smallie fishing there is ridiculous. I see some big northerns caught there too, even though the lake is not necessarily known for them. Lake trout fishing is something I could never really get into. It's too passive. Trolling in 60+ feet of water really isn't my thing, nor is trolling in general. I know you can jig for them too but I've never had much success that way.
As for the trout streams, maybe. I'm sure it's beautiful and the fishing is good, but I do so much of that here. When I get to a place like Champlain, I get into power fishing mode. 7 rods ready to go on the deck of the boat. Tearing across the lake at 50 mph, hit dozens of spots in a day. Like tournament fishing. I don't really get to do that kind of fishing much around here. I can find lots of forgotten or otherwise hidden streams around here where I can get away from people and have the whole stream to myself. Not so with lakes. All the lakes attract so many people. I like to take advantage of being able to go out on a lake and only see maybe a couple other boats.
In other news, I absolutely can not fall asleep. I know I'm tired. I just slept for like an hour, but woke up and have not been able to go back to sleep. I have a tee time this afternoon and I'd rather not be falling asleep on the course...
