Best Fishing Spots in Vermont

Vermont is small, cold and vertical enough to matter. Mapped waters run from 27 metres to 1,022 metres with a median of 368 metres, so mountain ponds in the Green Mountains sit well above the valley lakes and open weeks later in spring. Natural lakes outnumber reservoirs, glacial terrain having left the basins. The whole state sits in the temperate band but far enough north for a dependable ice season, with ice fishing established across the state. Lake Champlain on the western border is the dominant water by a wide margin, large enough to behave differently from anything else here and shared with New York, which brings its own arrangements on licensing for parts of the lake. Across 13 counties of Vermont we hold 418 waters. Expect mostly natural lakes, plus a good share of reservoirs. Lake Champlain is the widest water we hold here, about 433 sq miles. The deepest published figure belongs to Lake Champlain, about 400 feet. Between 15°F and 66°F is the working range here. Most of these waters open up around mid April in an average year. Across the listed waters, the species reported most are brook trout, white sucker, yellow perch and rainbow trout....