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Sports : Fishing report 8/23/06
Bucks Lake Fishing's great! Kids and adults alike are catching fish up in the Mill Creek and Haskins area. Mostly brook trout and rainbow are coming out, with an occasional brown trout. It seems like early morning and late afternoon are the best times to fish. Report courtesy of Bucks Lake Marina, 283- 4243
Lake Almanor Hamilton Branch is worth a try-use nightcrawlers or wooley buggers. The jetties in Prattville are mostly underwater, so try down by the dam with SW 10 Kastmasters or use nightcrawlers with PowerBait. Maybe crickets and mealworm for good-size browns. Trollers are fishing down 10 to 30 feet early morning. There have been reports of trout 3 to 5 pounds on the west side. Try using Uncle Larry's-maybe red/gold speedy shiners. Good reports of salmon being caught by the dam and Hamilton Branch with tails of anchovies.
Best bets around the state
Vermont's trout season begins in just six days, and Friday the weather forecast for opening day called for scattered showers and a high temperature of about 50.
Opening day conditions are expected to be actually fairly decent this year -- with little snowpack left in the state. High water in rivers and streams could prove most troublesome, but dry weather later this week could bring down the levels on swollen streams.
Traditional best bets for early season trout fishing include the Willoughby, Barton and Black rivers in the Northeast Kingdom, and the Williams, Saxtons rivers and Mill Brook in southern Vermont.
The Mettawee is perhaps the best spot in southern Vermont, largely because of its ability to produce wild rainbow trout. The lower Castleton and upper Poultney rivers are good early-season bets for brown trout.
paintsville lake balancing act
Since it filled in 1983, Paintsville Lake has been known for supporting cool-water fish species -- walleye up to 10 pounds, the occasional 20-inch smallmouth bass, and good numbers of 10- to 14-inch rainbow trout. This is in addition to the largemouth bass, spotted bass, crappie, and catfish that naturally reproduce in the 1,139-acre reservoir. Cool water builds up over time in the lake because of a slow flow-through rate. It takes an average of 150 days for water to travel the 18 miles from the headwaters to the dam, where the lake depth is more than 90 feet. But in recent years a number of factors, including higher than normal rainfall and discharge rates, and the cool water demands below the dam, led to the loss of cool-water habitat in the lake.
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