Local Waters

Vermont offers some of the best fly fishing for trout in all of New England and our guides cover the entire state.  From Burlington we can get you onto Lamoille River, Winooski River, Lewis Creek, Otter Creek, or their tributaries with in a 10-45 minutes, and usually into trout shortly there after.  Around Middlebury we target the Otter Creek and its numerous fertile tributaries whose headwaters are teaming w/ brook trout, and many place you can potentially catch wild Brookies, Browns, and Rainbows in the same stretch.  In the North, we love the Lamoille River for its plentiful wild rainbows, big browns, and seemingly endless tributaries and their brookies.  Near the Canadian border and New Hampshire is the famous North East Kindgom.  Here the tributaries of Lake Memphromagog, upper Lamoille River, and the Connecticut River are some of the most scenic and serene waters in all of the state. The Green Mountains, run up the spine of the state where wild brook trout abound in the cascading brooks, meadows, and scattered ponds.

There’s more to Vermont than just our streams and trout.  Many of the same waters hold bass, pike, walleye, or seasonal runs of anadromous salmon, steelhead, brown and Lake trout.  We target these species,  starting in the falls and continuing thru the winter into spring, on Lake Champlain, and it’s tributaries, and those of other larger lakes.  Don’t drive all the way to Gaspe or North Shore Canadian salmon waters – instead book a trip w/ Stream and Brook and catch that bucket list Salmon.  Since these anadromous salmon and trout live in deep cold lakes with great bait fish populations, you stand a great chance of catching a fish in the 6-9 lbs range, and our guides know places where fish that go well over 10 lbs are frequent.

If cold water fishing isn’t your thing that’s ok.  As winter gives way to spring, the snow melts end, then spring rains and sun warm our waters.  This is when the northern pike, smallmouth and largemouth bass begin to seek out shallow waters and trophy fish on the fly are common.   We find these fish in big lake tributaries, and the miles of lake and pond shorelines across the state.  Pike over 40″, 5lb smallmouth, and largemouth up to 7lbs are common.

We’re not done yet, can’t forget those other often overlooked, or misunderstood species, that offer some amazing and exciting fly fishing – Exotics!  Jump in a canoe with one of our guides and let us paddle you around the flats where you can site cast to Bowfin, Carp, Gar, and giant sheephead.  Seeing these monsters in skinny water will excite even the most veteran anglers.

Vermont offers a diverse landscape with all kinds of fishing opportunities.  No matter where you want to be in the Green Mountain State, our guides can put you on fish!