You might be tired of hearing it by now, but there’s a long list of Elite Series anglers who absolutely love Lake Champlain. You can add Brock Mosley to the list. In what appears to be one of, if not the most significant two-week periods in his Elite Series career, Mosley has experienced the long-distance birth of his second child back home in Mississippi, pulled a largemouth rabbit out of smallmouth hat with some magic at the St. Lawrence River and now goes into Day 2 at Lake Champlain in a 5th-place tie after weighing 19 pounds, 13 ounces yesterday.
“I’ve had better finishes on the St. Lawrence, but this is my favorite lake anywhere we go across the country,” Mosley said yesterday. “You can catch ’em green (largemouth), brown (smallmouth) and the numbers are unreal. It’s an awesome place to fish. It really needs to be on everybody’s bucket list to come try this place out.”
Mosley is back on the brown bass this week, like he normally would have been at the St. Lawrence River as well. He had one largemouth in his five-bass limit yesterday.
“We hit it right, where it’s warm enough that the smallmouth are offshore where I like them to be to catch ’em,” Mosley said. “If they’re not out there yet, I usually concentrate on largemouth here. But they’re out there this week, and it’s a lot easier catching 3 1/2-, 3 3/4-pound smallmouth than it is largemouth.”