Glenn Browne, Superchips-sponsored angler:

Wow, what an event I had a phenomenal week at Lake Champlain and came out on top when it was all said and done. Lake Champlain is a lake that is one of my absolute favorites, I headed up there a couple of days early just because it is such a phenomenal fishery for both largemouth and smallmouth bass. I generally fish for largemouth bass in the tournament so that is what I practiced for the first couple of days. On the second day of practice, I found the winning pattern, the fish were up super shallow in less than two feet of water around willow trees and grass on the far south end of the lake some sixty miles from where the tournament take-off is at, but this is a run which I am very familiar with. Then for the next few days of practice, I fished up north for smallmouth but never found the quality that I had located on the south end.

Once practice was over I was convinced that the south end of the lake is where I thought I had a great chance of winning the tournament. I headed down to the south end of the lake the first day which is also the location of Fort Ticonderoga and in just a few short hours I had over twenty-two pounds in the live well. The next day wasn’t quite as easy it took me a bit longer to catch my weight but caught nearly the same weight as the day before and was leading the tournament into the top ten final days by just over six pounds

Then the final day I knew just as long as I got down and back and caught them fair it would be difficult for anyone to pass me, but there was a small hiccup with that plan. About 1/3 of the way through my sixty-mile journey to the Ticonderoga area I hit a large rogue wave at sixty miles per hour and sent my boat into the air and when it came back down I lost all my electrical shutting everything down. So now I am broke down in the middle of the lake with no one in sight, I then called the tournament director to tell him my problem. I then called my roommate Dave Lefebre who was still in the room he got up fueled his boat and brought it to me so I could continue on with my day. I then had to travel back up to take off twenty miles to have my livewells checked and then head back south. When it was all said and done I was fishing by 8:30 only losing about an hour and a half of fishing time. I can’t thank Dave enough for bringing his boat to me if it wasn’t for him I may not have been able to win the tournament. Once I made it to my fishing area it was game on and I went to work catching them. When it was all said and done I caught just over eighteen pounds to seal the deal and take home the hardware. It makes the 1400-mile ride home a lot easier with a 34,000-dollar check and a certificate for a new fully rigged Ranger boat valued at over $40,000.

I’ll be home for just four days then the Superchips rig will be off to my next event on Lake Dardenelle in Arkansas and from there off to Lake Erie in Sandusky, Ohio. I’ll be racking up the miles on the Ford F-250 over the next month or so and hopefully catching a bunch of bass.