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Two Vermonters fishing for salmon last month just beyond the mouth of the Ausable River on the New York side of the lake saw ripples on the smooth surface. Later, when they saw it again, Dick Affolter and Pete Bodette, Affolter's 34-year-old stepson, used a digital camera to take pictures and video.
"We saw something on that lake we've never seen before," said Bodette. "Is what we saw the same thing other people saw, and they called Champ? I don't know." The two seasoned anglers could not identify what species of fish it might have been, one they estimated to be 15 feet long that was breaking the surface where the lake is close to 200 feet deep.
Champ is the name that has been given through the years to a serpentine-type animal that some believe hides in the depths of the lake. Champ dates back to 1609 when French explorer Samuel de Champlain described a fish with "dangerous teeth" that the native peoples said grew to 10 feet long.
"We saw something on that lake we've never seen before," said Bodette. "Is what we saw the same thing other people saw, and they called Champ? I don't know." The two seasoned anglers could not identify what species of fish it might have been, one they estimated to be 15 feet long that was breaking the surface where the lake is close to 200 feet deep.
Champ is the name that has been given through the years to a serpentine-type animal that some believe hides in the depths of the lake. Champ dates back to 1609 when French explorer Samuel de Champlain described a fish with "dangerous teeth" that the native peoples said grew to 10 feet long.
