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Fished the res last Sunday. The bite was very slow, got about half dozen perch and only a few smelt. Did manage to jig up a 17" brown. So that did make the day worth while.
With all the smelt, they don't need to work for food too hard, that's why there's not a lot of action fishing.Before the smelt came back it was a lot easier.Same thing on Salem lake.
I'm taking some friends who are new to ice fishing out on Sunday, everyone think the ice at Blush Hill Rd. will be plenty thick? I haven't fished the res through the ice in the past; any advice is welcome! Thanks!
I have pics and measurements of a 28" male native I caught out of there years ago through the ice that I released.Wanted to do a replica but never did.
Plenty of safe ice there. You should be fine.
I saw a VT Fish biologist on the res on sunday and asked about putting walleye in. He said they don't have enough fry to go around. He also said they is very little, if any trout reproduction there although some of the wild trout that get in there reproduce in the feeder streams. So, as far as fishing getting much better there in the near future it ain't gonna happen.
hmmm. Well I wonder where all the wild rainbow parr I have been catching on the feeder brooks are coming from then...
I have also cought manny wild rainbows in the feeder streams while fly fishing! Which is great, but I am yet to catch a brown in either of the two streams! Have you been able to catch a brown in one of the streams yet?