Then Again: Lake Champlain long a magnet for anglers

Sport fishing on Lake Champlain has been popular since the mid-1800s. One of the most popular areas has been the Split Rock Channel in the southern part of the lake, seen here in an 1875 painting by John Lee Fitch. Photo by Mark Bushnell(“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about Vermont history.)
As human activities in Vermont go, you can’t find one much older than fishing. Archaeologists believe that people started fishing here soon after they arrived some 13,000 year