fishing
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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…
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Matthew Dickerson: Rainbow trout out of the pockets
I’d only been out on the river once all month. So after dinner, when the river calls my name, I heed the call.
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Matthew Dickerson: Sockeye tipping: Abundance, resilience and diversity, Part 2
A lone sockeye salmon sits in the stream in front of me under a low canopy of alder. The stream is wide, gravelly and shallow: only two to…
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Matthew Dickerson: Sockeye in the Wood River system: Abundance, resilience, diversity; Part 1
For five days and nights I resided in a shoreline cabin partway up the Wood River system in Alaska’s Wood-Tikchik State Park. Officially, I was serving as artist-in-residence…
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UVM asking for anglers to help with studies
University of Vermont researchers are enlisting the help of Lake Champlain anglers this summer to complete two important studies.