Adirondacks camping 2023

[thmyorke1]

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Nick and I got to campsite early Friday,
our reward was doubling up on the first two smallmouth, but also our reward soon after was getting hailed on and getting spooked by lightning and so we quickly left the boat back to our island campsite.

Brandon and friend joined us later on,
Through Sunday afternoon, we had some rain here and there but stayed dry underneath tarps and tents and always slept dry and well fed by Chef Nick.

Smallmouth fishing was lit as always, we're both spoiled by smallmouth from Ontario and other lakes up north, we didnt catch any giants this trip, but this lake's number of 12-17 inch smallmouth is phenomenal, so much fun.

Nick also caught a wonderful 37 inch pike while jigging for smallmouth. It took some nasty runs and was exciting to guess what the fish was until we saw it. Some of us thought giant rare landlocked salmon lol.

Brandon and Nick may have some more pictures, feel free to post my amigos

[thmyorke1]

[DanH]

Looks like a great trip ! How bad were the black flies ?

[thmyorke1]

Originally Posted by DanH

Looks like a great trip ! How bad were the black flies ?

not bad, every year they dont bother me but bite nick occasionally.

One part of the lake, where the river was connecting between two lakes, was where some mosquitos were heavy.

Some days the regular gnats and flies were just flying all over your face but they werent biting i think.

Otherwise no issues. I know one day we will run into a bad hatch

[Doug Vitale]

Originally Posted by thmyorke1

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Good thing you covered your head with your lure container, or you might have gotten seriously injured...

If you ever return to the Adirondacks to do some stream fishing, I would suggest the Raquette River, Saranac River, the Ausable (particularly the West Branch by Whiteface Mountain), the Battenkill and West Canada Creek. There's just so much water and woods to explore up there!

[thmyorke1]

Originally Posted by Doug Vitale

Good thing you covered your head with your lure container, or you might have gotten seriously injured...

If you ever return to the Adirondacks to do some stream fishing, I would suggest the Raquette River, Saranac River, the Ausable (particularly the West Branch by Whiteface Mountain), the Battenkill and West Canada Creek. There's just so much water and woods to explore up there!

We tried the Ausable, i recall seeing some trout follow but nothing much, water was low that time.
We've seen the rivers around there like Saranac. It's overwhelming
(in a good way) how much water there is to explore. You could probably spend your whole life just figuring out a select few watersheds.
We prefer to do the boat camping stuff but we should do a canoe float through one of those streams some day.