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Wildlife Briefs
Anglers continue to experience good to excellent fishing for largemouth bass at Adams-McGill, Cold Springs and Haymeadow reservoirs. Many of the bass were in the three- to four-pound range. Trout fishing slowed due to higher water temperatures. The upper ends of Adams-McGill and Dacey reservoirs reopened to fishing Wednesday. Daytime temperatures have been in the upper 80's while evenings have been dropping into the 50s. EAGLE VALLEY RESERVOIR Trout fishing continues to be slow with most of the fish being caught using Powerbait and nightcrawlers. Boaters have been more successful than shore fisherman with most fish being caught during early morning and late evening hours. ECHO CANYON RESERVOIR Fishing for trout continues to be slow due to warm water temperatures.
Sewage plant mishap kills trout in Dog River
A chemical release by a municipal sewage plant is being blamed for killing a significant number of fish last week on one of Vermont's premier wild trout streams.
Fish were killed on more than a half-mile stretch of the Dog River below the Northfield sewage treatment plant. An angler alerted state fisheries biologist of dead fish Monday afternoon.
According to Northfield Village Manager Charles Morse, an infusion of chlorine was accidentally leaked into the Dog River from the sewage treatment plant as work was being done to upgrade the facility's chlorinating system.
"We knew we released chlorine, but we didn't detect a problem until later on," Morse said. "We're upset that we killed fish, obviously; we try to be as environmentally conscious as we can be."
Morse said the spill affected a stretch of river about 0.6 of a mile long, from below the sewage plant to the mouth of Cox Brook, a major tributary of the Dog.
Silver Creek rebounding from spring flood
Four months after an unusually large flood swept through Silver Creek, depositing silt in favorite fishing stretches and skewing insect hatches, most anglers say the prized trout stream near Picabo is fishing as well as ever. "There's nothing wrong here. The fishing's been good," said John McGough, of Hailey, as he changed out of his waders after a morning of fly fishing last weekend. "I'm seeing a whole lot of active, young fish, which is good news." During a warm, wet spell at the tail end of one of the snowiest winters in the last 25 years, flows on Silver Creek were measured at a swollen 460 cubic feet per second (cfs) on April 6 and 7, 2006. Average flows during spring runoff top out at about 200 cfs. When the waters opened to fishing in late May, many anglers complained that the physical structure of the creek had changed dramatically.
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