Bass Blitz and Trout Delight - Your Lake Champlain Fishing Report

Artificial Lure here, bringing you your Lake Champlain fishing report for Wednesday, June 11th, 2025. We’ve got a classic early summer pattern shaping up on both sides of the lake. Sunrise hit at 5:13 AM and the sun won’t set till 8:32 tonight, so there’s plenty of daylight for anglers to get in on the action. Today’s weather is in our favor: expect highs in the upper 60s, light variable winds, and partly cloudy skies—ideal conditions whether you’re casting from shore or chasing fish by boat.

Bass anglers, this is your time. According to recent creel surveys reported by Outdoor News, bass remain the most targeted species on the lake, and for good reason. Smallmouth are stealing the show with aggressive post-spawn fish especially active along rocky points and drop-offs near Valcour Island and Willsboro Bay. You can expect numbers: recent outings have seen crews boating 15-20 bass a day, with many fish pushing the three- to four-pound mark, and the occasional husky five-pounder showing up.

The best baits this week have been tube jigs in green pumpkin, drop shot rigs with 4-inch finesse worms, and the reliable Senko Worms in Green Pumpkin Black. For power anglers, PXR Mavrik 110 jerkbaits in Metallic Yellow Perch are getting slammed by cruising smallmouth. Keep your casts tight to shore and out to about six feet of water.

Largemouth are starting to fire up in the bays and weed beds, especially in the Inland Sea and south around Shelburne Bay. Early morning topwater frog action is picking up, and white spinnerbaits fished along weed edges have enticed some big bucketmouths, including a verified 7.5-pounder near St. Albans Bay late last week. Texas-rigged soft plastics remain a staple through the emerging weed beds.

For cold-water fans, lake trout fishing is still excellent from Westport to Cumberland Head. Find them deep—80 to 100 feet down—where they’re chasing rainbow smelt. Deep trolling with spoons and flasher-fly setups in green and silver has produced solid numbers, and guides are reporting 30-laker mornings with a good mix of wild fish. Burlington Ledges and Port Henry are your hot spots. If salmon are more your style, focus between Split Rock and Shelburne Point with downriggers set 40-60 feet.

Panfishers will find crappies and bluegills loaded in Bulwagga and Missisquoi Bays; try small jigs tipped with worms for steady action.

If you’re planning where to launch, check out the Monitor Bay boat ramp in Crown Point for easy southern access, and don’t overlook the classic inland hotspots around the islands for both bass and pike.

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