Author Topic: Rarest fish (Read 5544 times)

perch bait · « **Reply #30 on:** Feb 15, 2015, 01:31 PM »

Quote from: laker24taker on Feb 15, 2015, 01:27 PM

My bowfishin set up will take care of him quick

I certainly won't complain.

TRT · « **Reply #31 on:** Feb 15, 2015, 03:52 PM »

Yep no stripers north of the dam at the Holyoke/Chicopee city line. Power company lifts a lot of shad an occasional salmon.

FlyPredatorVT · « **Reply #32 on:** Feb 15, 2015, 03:56 PM »

I caught a bunch of eels this year on the Winooski. They are definitely making a comeback.

Tench are everywhere at this point. And a hell of a lot of fun when you can get them to take something!

As far as rare fish in Vermont that you can target- quillback and mooneye would be on the top of my list. Not easy to find... Of course I know a lot of folks who would love to find a copper redhorse in Lake Champlain... I may have caught one this spring but I'm not entirely sure.

TRT · « **Reply #33 on:** Feb 15, 2015, 06:10 PM »

Rarest fish would be a Sunapee Trout/Arctic Char rumored to be still around a couple of NEK lakes.
They were common 120 years ago prior to stocking lake trout.

dave bartlett · « **Reply #34 on:** Feb 15, 2015, 06:18 PM »

Mud Guppy,My brother caught in 1969 in Champlain.Weirdest fish i ever saw.It was the first fish i ever saw that had legs and could walk.

tench · « **Reply #35 on:** Feb 15, 2015, 07:41 PM »

So striper fishing in Vermont is going to be a thing?

gofish33 · « **Reply #36 on:** Feb 15, 2015, 08:54 PM »

Fur-Bearing trout

gofish33

thefishingweatherman · « **Reply #37 on:** Feb 15, 2015, 09:06 PM »

I'd like to catch a "longe" laker out of Maidstone someday. See: http://www.vpt.org/clip?736

flagfishon · « **Reply #38 on:** Feb 15, 2015, 10:40 PM »

Cool video. Thanks for sharing.

Fish Hard · « **Reply #39 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 04:55 AM »

That is very cool!!

Fish Farmer · « **Reply #40 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 07:16 AM »

Quote from: iverson111 on Feb 15, 2015, 07:54 PM

Last year I watch Holyoke lift about 20 stripers over the dam with shad being caught in Vermont last spring I know there in there. Nobody is targeting the ew and far between though. All bass were school is size 17 inches max

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife web page has striped bass listed as a Vermont fish.

BassInVt · « **Reply #41 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 07:29 AM »

Quote from: TRT on Feb 15, 2015, 06:10 PM

Rarest fish would be a Sunapee Trout/Arctic Char rumored to be still around a couple of NEK lakes.
They were common 120 years ago prior to stocking lake trout.

rumored to be in averill from what I have read. Never seen one though. Now that would be a very rare catch

BassInVt · « **Reply #42 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 07:32 AM »

Quote from: dave bartlett on Feb 15, 2015, 06:18 PM

Mud Guppy,My brother caught in 1969 in Champlain.Weirdest fish i ever saw.It was the first fish i ever saw that had legs and could walk.

Dave are u sure on that. Im thinking your thinking a Mud Puppy. If thats the case, its not a fish, its a large salamander that lives in vermont, and a lot of them in lake champlain.

Smelty88 · « **Reply #43 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 07:35 AM »

Now that would be an amazing fish to see on the end of the line!

Quote from: BassInVt on Feb 16, 2015, 07:29 AM

rumored to be in averill from what I have read. Never seen one though. Now that would be a very rare catch

BassInVt · « **Reply #44 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 07:39 AM »

WOW, that is some colors on that fish. very cool

thefishingweatherman · « **Reply #45 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 07:48 AM »

Quote from: TRT on Feb 15, 2015, 06:10 PM

Rarest fish would be a Sunapee Trout/Arctic Char rumored to be still around a couple of NEK lakes.
They were common 120 years ago prior to stocking lake trout.

Where'd you hear that they were once in NEK lakes? I know that they are in one or two lakes in Northern Maine, and of course Sunappe in NH, but have never heard they were once in Vermont. I'd love to learn more.

BassInVt · « **Reply #46 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 07:52 AM »

Quote from: thefishingweatherman on Feb 16, 2015, 07:48 AM

Where'd you hear that they were once in NEK lakes? I know that they are in one or two lakes in Northern Maine, and of course Sunappe in NH, but have never heard they were once in Vermont. I'd love to learn more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunapee_golden_trout

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?speciesID=936

TRT · « **Reply #47 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 08:36 AM »

Opening weekend last year in NEK we caught 25 lakers. 23 were plain jane classic colored fish 2 were very different
possibly spawning colors but body shape was more rounded and a lot more red than typical orange you would
see on a normal spawning laker. I researched an sure enough char/Sunapee trout were present prior to lake trout
being stocked. Lake trout are a char species as are brook trout, arctic char, dolly varden, quebec red etc.
I am 100% sure the 2 odd fish we caught were lake trout but have wondered if there was a subspecies etc.
One fish we immediately threw back the other was table fare. Oh well, I've talked with a two state biologists who
said they have never gilled netted a char on that lake.

Orange fish in prior post is either a spawning arctic char or dolly varden they are tough to distinguish.

tench · « **Reply #48 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 09:04 AM »

Quote from: Fish Farmer on Feb 16, 2015, 07:16 AM

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife web page has striped bass listed as a Vermont fish.

From 1792- before all the dams and whatnot prevented migration

Hess · « **Reply #49 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 12:17 PM »

Last time I caught Saugers out of Lake Champlain was back in the early 70s -- would like to catch some again...!

gogetthegaff · « **Reply #50 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 03:05 PM »

Quote from: Hess on Feb 16, 2015, 12:17 PM

Last time I caught Saugers out of Lake Champlain was back in the early 70s -- would like to catch some again...!

x 2!

dave bartlett · « **Reply #51 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 06:29 PM »

BassInVt,
It probably was Puppy.I was only 8 years old then but remember it well.Never seen one since and the only one i ever saw.We let it go in the spring behind west rutland high school.It was flooded in the spring.I do know he caught it fishing.It bit a worm on a hook.I didn't want to touch it.It had gills and legs whatever it was.

RipSomeLips22 · « **Reply #52 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 06:56 PM »

Ciscoe

pikeslayer31 · « **Reply #53 on:** Feb 16, 2015, 07:20 PM »

Quote from: tench on Feb 15, 2015, 07:41 PM

So striper fishing in Vermont is going to be a thing?

That would be awesome.

BassInVt · « **Reply #54 on:** Feb 17, 2015, 06:38 PM »

Quote from: dave bartlett on Feb 16, 2015, 06:29 PM

BassInVt,
It probably was Puppy.I was only 8 years old then but remember it well.Never seen one since and the only one i ever saw.We let it go in the spring behind west rutland high school.It was flooded in the spring.I do know he caught it fishing.It bit a worm on a hook.I didn't want to touch it.It had gills and legs whatever it was.

Yeah Dave they are pretty cool. Largest salamander species I know of in vermont.. I ran maintenance at the Echo aquarium in burlington, we had two live specimens on display. Every now and then someone from the local beachs would find one and bring it to us wondering what it was. Every now and then at work / camp abnaki we will find them along the shoreline in the Gut. pretty neat.

Smelty88 · « **Reply #55 on:** Feb 17, 2015, 06:40 PM »

they are not rare imo but would still love to catch a gar here on champ! we see them spawning in maquam bay in the spring by the thousands.

BassInVt · « **Reply #56 on:** Feb 17, 2015, 06:43 PM »

Lamoille river below the first damn right about the beginning of trout season, you will see them by the thousands also. The Gar is a pretty cool fish.

putback · « **Reply #57 on:** Feb 25, 2015, 06:13 PM »

No Golden / Sunapee trout in N/E VT? Really. Like there were no coyotes, no buzzards, no pine martins, no wolves, no catamounts, no lynx. I suppose they're not there 'till the state says they are!

TRT · « **Reply #58 on:** Feb 25, 2015, 07:28 PM »

If I ever catch one of the mentioned "Red lake trout again, I will post pics.. LOL

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