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…