The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-04-21
FISHING NEAR HOME.
Many Chances For Good
Luck in Washington
County
OUR ANGLING RESOURCES
Brooks, Rivers and Ponds Where
Trout, Bass, Pike and Perch May
BE Caught Opportunities for SYnrt.

thinks at one of going away rom
home. Distance lends enchdntmcnt. .
The other side of the brook alway S
looks the most promising. Some other
pond appears more attractive than
the one we are fishing in.
So the Montpelier fisherman dreams
of going to Name or the preserve
of the st. Berna:d club in CanaGa, or
up in the wilds Of Essex county. Pei
haps the fisherman is nntura JX DIS
satisfied. The early settlers with
plenty of troI; all about them used
to make long trir;, to Lake naJ-
catch pickerel, and even stocked some
of the trout ponds with that shark Of
the fresh waters.
For the angler who is content with
a moderate days sport, who can en-
Joy the contemplative pleasures of
fishing as we'll as the taking Of a big
let of fish, who is in reality an angleg
and a sportsman, not a fish hog, the
waters of Washington county will
furnish enough good fishing 10 salts
fy him. 1t is common saying that
the streams are all fished on, that
there is no good fishing to be had
We cannot expect in thickly set
tied community where almost every
nan goes fishing at last once a year,
such fishing as the first settlers found
here, when one could go out with an
alder pole and piece Of salt polk
and catch half bushel of trout before
breakfast That kind of fishing has
disappeared in all thickly settled COM
munities and is only found today in
the wilderness. The waters about
Montpelier afford as good sport as can
reasonably be expected in sutn a
country. H'r~" n.y.
= Where Trout Are Found.
Right here at home in the Dog Riv-
Ell, are large numbers of trout, priE-
cipally rainbows, and good sized ones
are taken in considerable numbers
every year The rainbow is an m
portation from the West and thli, es
in waters that have become too warm
for the native brook trout Taken on
a fly the rainbow is a strong fighter
and never gives up while there is an
ounce of strength left in his body. A
two pound rainbow on a six ounce
rod will give the angler some lively
minutes. At night the rainbow is a
bottom feeder. A piece of minnow Tor
bait, thrown out on the .eediug
ground and allowed to sink to the bot
tom, is an attractive lure, but there
is little pleasure in taking The fish
that way. He makes no resistance
and can be dragged out with as NH IN
ease as a sucker. Yet this method is
productive of large catches.
There are of course some brock
trout remaining in the Dog River and
some steelheads, these latter a beau
tiful fish and strong fighters. The
rainbows are the most plentiful
There are places along the river
where on a bright day in sum ner Ole
may count as many as twenty of them
at one time. 1t is no unusual thing
to see them in the stream where II
flows through Mortified village.
The Mad River is also we'll stocked
with rainbows and some fine catches
have been made at the mouth OF tina,
stream, just below the Moody & Al
mon electric plant. At the montn o.
the Dog River at Montpelier Junction
trout have been taken weighing tive
pounds and more.
In waters fished as much rs thos,
about here the fish are wary. The!
cannot be caught every day, but tic!
can be caught, and when a ,en-year
old boy can take a trout weighing
more than three pounds it cannot b.
said that the fishing has entirel
played out.
In the upper waters of The Win
ooski there are good trout to ne Lad
though not in large numbers. BeioV
the Three Mile bridge there are Ian
locked salmon and plenty of lass.
is no uncommon thing, on favor
able day for a man to take doae
or fifteen of the latter that excee
the legal limit. and occasionally on
is found weighing three pounds O
more. There is a willy old vetera
lurking under the roots of zig tire
not a great way down the river, VII
has been responsible for a large as
sortment of profanity in the iast tW
or three years. Someone will Ian
him some time, and the fortunat
man will have we'll earned right
boast of his prowess
There is also a trout mark I'd dow
in Dog River that has smashed SON
valuable tackle. Men who have bee
lucky enough to get glimpse of IL
big fighter say he will weigh tc
pounds, and those who have hookC
him say the same. This is not q
guess work. A man who has had e,
perience with large fish can tell wi
remarkable accuracy the weight of
fish by the drag he puts on the Ia
kle. One treut has been taken ne;
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