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bogtrotter:
Yesterday, I took advantage of Free Fishing Day and headed north (from MA) with three compadres - - my buddy Brian, his pal Ted (whom I've only met a handful of times before) and Ted's high school age son Aidan - - from about 10 AM to 3 PM.

It was a nice day - - sunny and blue skies - - but surprisingly cool (topping out around 60 degrees) and breezy.

We started on the Hoosic in Pownal.  (It was my first time ever fishing the VT stretch of that river).

We made two stops by bridges, fishing both above (i.e., upstream) and below (downstream of) them.

The first stop was by the intersection of Main Street and Palmer Drive, while the second was on Dean Road.

At our first stop, I caught four browns (12" to 14") above the bridge - -  and also got to see a doe cross the river between me and my buddy Brian (who was fishing a football field upstream of me) below the bridge.

At our second stop, I caught one last (12") brown below the bridge.

Then we headed to Bennington, where we fished my traditional annual "milk run" by the three covered bridges along the Walloomsac, which was lower than I ever recall seeing it before.

I didn't have any action at all by the Henry Road bridge, but caught two (12") rainbows by the Paper Mill bridge and a third (also about 12") just downstream of the Silk Road bridge.

All in all, I found it to be a most satisfactory day - - particularly the quality of the fishing on the Hoosic in Pownal.  Definitely worth the price of admission.
 

PIKEBAIT:
Trotter.  Thanks for great report.  Too bad that vermont fishermen are too depressed to get on the water and tell us about it.  I have to admit I'm a little frustrated with number of
Mass. and Conn.  fisherman overwhelming northern NH but I've met some great traveling fishermen because of it.
Looking forward to time when I can stay in Vt.  for fishing vacation.
Dick

bogtrotter:

--- Quote from: PIKEBAIT on Jun 16, 2020, 08:56 PM ---Too bad that vermont fishermen are too depressed to get on the water and tell us about it.

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Yes, I too find it odd that only the ME, MA, NH, NY and IN boards are posted on with any regularity.

mudchuck:
Online forums seems to be waning and FB is taking over as the primary forums, but there's so much vitriol on FB that it's just not worth it anymore to post anything anywhere without some keyboard warrior telling you whatever criticism they feel like spewing that day...

That said, I took my eldest & his wife out for the afternoon on Carmi in northern VT, we got there around 2:30 and the winds had dropped off tremendously as forecast. was such a beautiful afternoon and so calm & quiet as we only had a small handful of others trolling around the shorelines to contend with and by 4PM most were gone and we had the lake practically to ourselves.
We pulled diving crankbaits and worm harnesses w/bottom bouncers and my DiL caught 5 small walleyes mostly 12-14", 4 large perch, a large rock bass & a fishing pole someone had deep six'd & my son caught a couple large perch too, all went back to grow.

I caught a 21" walleye that we took home and I filleted for them to have for dinner.

Both enjoyed the trip immensely and it was an early father's day gift for me to spend the afternoon with them doing some fishing.

bogtrotter:

--- Quote from: mudchuck on Jun 18, 2020, 08:53 AM ---We pulled diving crankbaits and worm harnesses w/bottom bouncers and my DiL caught 5 small walleyes mostly 12-14", 4 large perch, a large rock bass & a fishing pole someone had deep six'd & my son caught a couple large perch too, all went back to grow.  I caught a 21" walleye that we took home and I filleted for them to have for dinner.
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Sweet!  Sounds like one helluva day on the water.

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