I have been researching ponds to try this summer with the fly rod for brook trout. I know of a couple ponds that are good. Although I would like to find more pond to try. I herd that Lewis used to be good, but some how has bass in it now? Does anyone know if there is any trout left to fish? And is there really bass there now:( Looks like a picture perfect trout pond! Any info on this pond or anyother would be very appreciated.
Your Fish & Game department should have a list of ponds they manage exclusively for brook trout or good bets for brook trout. Have you tried them?
Yes I have looked and found some. I found a biologist report on Vermont brook trout ponds. I saw Lewis pond and wondered how good it really is as I herd there is bass there now.
I was about to say I've never fished Lewis, but then I looked at the map and realized that I have. It was stunningly beautiful, and I got skunked. I've fished other ponds that were in that study, and it was very nice.I'd be sad to hear that there were bass there now. I hiked in to Levi pond a couple springs ago, and the first thing I saw was spawning bass
It would be nice if the state could some how restore these ponds back to being trout, and trout only...
Considering the extreme use of rotenone or some other mass eradication effort, what would keep some individual from restocking said waterbody with say...crappie or catfish? There are many cases of fish being spread by anglers, 20 years ago alewifes were illegally introduced in a small lake in Vermont, which decimated the smelt population, now those alewives are firmly established in Lake Champlain, another lake has smallmouth and catfish where they didn't exist before, the list goes on....There isn't enough manpower to patrol every lake and pond. People never seem to be happy with what is in available to them and become bait bucket biologists.