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Title:Fishing Notes- Archived
Notice:See note 555.1 for a keyword directory of this conference
Moderator:DONMAC::MACINTYRE
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Sep 20 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1660
Total number of notes:20970

703.0. "Little river in Vt. area" by BTO::SCHOFIELD_K () Tue May 03 1988 12:17

      Does anyone out there have any experience fishing the "Little
    river" in the Waterbury/Stowe VT. area?  It's listed as a pretty good
    place to try for rainbows and browns, but I'm not sure whether to
    fish the river above (north) of the Waterbury Reservoir, or below
    (south) of the reservoir.  The little river looks like it flows
    into and out-of the reservoir itself.  A buddy of mine is driving
    in from Maine this weekend to do some trout fishing and I'd like
    to try this water out with him.
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703.1FROST::WALZGary WalzMon May 09 1988 16:2011
     Did you get a chance to try it?  I was fishing there Saturday, above
     the dam.  My partner and I both caught a few small rainbows (the 
     largest was his 10 inch).  Also caught some chubs and VERY small perch.

     All-in-all, a gorgeous day, even if the fishing wasn't spectacular.  
     The water was fairly low (power company has been drawing off a lot 
     of water).  

     -gary
     
703.2I stayed local.BTO::SCHOFIELD_KMon May 16 1988 14:2914
    No, I passed and fished some local waters instead.  I contacted
    someone from Trout Unlimited and they told me that the river and
    reservior had been drained about 20 months ago and that siltation
    had driven all the fish down into the Winooski.  T.U. is planning
    on checking/restocking the water in a few weeks if conditions are
    right (so I was told anyway).
    
    Boy what a weekend though!  Beautiful weather.  The first day we
    went out (Saturday) we stopped for gas in Jeff.  A feller pulled
    up and displayed a real nice brown (maybe about 18") that had to
    go 4 pounds or so, kyped jaw and all.  The Jaw's still a mystery
    to me.  Got it out of the Lamoille.  Our luck wasn't as good.
    
    Ken.