Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain is the sixth largest in
the United States, and is, in fact, sometimes referred to as the
Sixth Great Lake. With as large an assortment of freshwater fish
as any lake in the world, Lake Champlain is one of the country's
top fishing spots. Landlocked Atlantic salmon, lake trout,
northern pike, largemouth and smallmouth bass, channel catfish,
perch, crappie and other panfish- the list goes on, and the
fishing for all of them is tops!
Lake Champlain starts in Whitehall, NY
and flows north for 112 miles to become the Richelieu River in
southern Quebec. The Vermont-New York state lines runs
north-south through the lake, the political boundary being the
deep water channel in the middle.
The total surface area of Lake
Champlain is 435 square miles, of which 270 square miles are in
Vermont, 150 in New York, and 15 of the northern-most are in
Quebec, Canada. Much of the lake is narrow, the maximum width
being about 12 miles between Burlington, VT and Port Kent, NY.
The maximum depth of the lake is slightly more than 400 feet. It
is bordered on the east by Vermont's Green Mountains and on the
west by New York State's Adirondacks.
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