fishing
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Free ice fishing day offered in Vermont
Vermont’s state-wide Free Ice Fishing Day is Saturday, Jan. 27.
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Vt. hunters guidebooks available
Vermont 2024 hunting, trapping, and fishing licenses, as well as the 2024 lawbooks for these activities, are now available on the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department’s website and…
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Fly fishing is therapy for some veterans
“Many veterans no longer refer to it as PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder),” Bob Almeter points out. “They call it Post Traumatic Stress (PTS). It’s not a disorder.…
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Matthew Dickerson: River surveys suggests damage to fisheries done by floods
“It was comparable to Tropical Storm Irene. We lost a lot (though not all) of the young-of-year age class.” Austin Galinat, a fisheries scientist with Vermont Fish and Wildlife,…
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Matthew Dickerson: Visiting angler finds trout and clear water
River after river, stream after stream was running high and muddy. Unfishably muddy.
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Matthew Dickerson: Dappled light on dappled fish
On such a hot day, my daughter-in-law McKenna and I figured that if we wanted both to enjoy the fishing and to catch fish, we’d need to get…
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Matthew Dickerson: Of salmon, sturgeon and glimmers of hope
Late on a Wednesday afternoon, four huge Atlantic salmon finned in the current at the tail end of a long, deep pool on a small Maine river.
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Matthew Dickerson: One more trout in the Upper Dam Pool
An hour or so earlier, a hefty trout had chased my imitation stonefly nymph up from the deep water in front me to within a foot of the…
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Vermont free fishing day set for June 10
Vermont’s annual, statewide Summer Free Fishing Day is Saturday, June 10 this year, and it will be highlighted by a free family fishing festival in Grand Isle as…
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Matthew Dickerson: Quiet evening. But a loud splash.
The reaction was instant. At the sound of the splash, my heart began to race. I could feel the rush of adrenaline as my head whipped around toward…
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Goshen Dam restocked with trout
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department today announced that trout stocking will resume this spring at Sugar Hill Reservoir, also known as Goshen Dam, in Goshen, following the…
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Matthew Dickerson: A new national park and two trout-fishing firsts
The morning began with a rainy drive of a little less than an hour along the western edge of New River Gorge National Park in West Virginia.
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Matthew Dickerson: Fishing on thin ice
Even before stepping out onto the ice of Bryant Pond 30 minutes before dawn on New Year’s Day, I could tell it was going to be an unusual…
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Hunting & Trapping lawbooks available
Vermont 2023 hunting, trapping, and fishing licenses, as well as the 2023 lawbooks for these activities, are now available on the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department’s website and…
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Matthew Dickerson: What fish taught me in 2022
It’s probably not accurate to say that fish taught me anything. Numerous fishing outings on which I failed to interact with any actual fish is evidence that I…