Smallmouth bite is on this morning

If you’re watching the LIVE Mix, you just saw Micah Frazier, Jamie Hartman and Seth Feider land big smallmouth bass in rapid succession. For Frazier, it filled his five-bass limit at 7:48 and he’ll be culling up from 13-12 from now on. Feider’s weighed 3 1/2 pounds and gave him three keepers. Hartman has three keepers as well.

“That’s 4 pounds all day long,” Hartman said of his last fish. “Man, I’ve already worked up a sweat.”

Several anglers remarked yesterday about the aerial acrobatics of Lake Champlain smallmouth bass. They seem particularly prone to go airborne here.

“Crazy suckers,” said Frazier. “They come straight up every time.”