CVTU Site Members Group

With high temperatures - both air and water - putting a damper on trout fishing, CVTU is taking aim at a little streamside cleanup. A meet-up to clean-up is planned for August 16th at the Lamoille River access in Milton. At the same time, conversation turned to other locations that might need a little tender loving care, places where unthinking people have left bottles, cans, night crawler tubs, and heaven-knows-what beside the water. Often the worst are in public boat ramps and parks, areas where older fishers and folks with young anglers rely on easy access. If you've been to such a place recently, hit "Comment" and tell us about it. Hopefully we can call attention to it and maybe get some volunteers together.

My son and I had a great morning on the Lamoille. Wild rainbows, no clip fin. Six o clock in the morning. Two sinker. A worm on size six hook. Saw a huge rainbow jump out of the water twice in same location. Wonderful morning. All rainbows had pink meat. They must of been eating crawfish for a while. Nine inches to 12 and half inches.

We have also gone after trout with panther martins

One brown was wild the other was a stock.

There are a few benefits of the lower water levels lately. One is it is easier to find where the fish are hanging. The other is the really cold water (56 degrees last Friday) in the Little River can have a positive impact on the Winooski temps downstream. My last two outings one on the Little River and one on the Winooski both saw trifectas of brook, brown and rainbow in the Little River and Brown, rainbow and salmon on the Winooski.

Get out there!

We drove over to the Northeast Kingdom this week, leaving the rods behind because it was so hot. A lot of the Winooski East of Montpelier looked really low from the road, and it was pretty dramatic to see all the places where the stream banks themselves were reshaped by last year's floods.