On a late-October afternoon over the sparkling waters of the Winooski, Lee Simard reeled in quite the catch. Instead of nylon fishing line, taut steel cables hoisted a massive concrete bucket bearing ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Biologists are trying to determine whether a warm, dry fall is responsible for a drop in the number of landlocked Atlantic salmon that swam up a Lake Champlain tributary in Vermont ...

MONTPELIER — The dropping temperatures and shorter days of fall bring some of the year's hottest fishing action on Vermont's lakes, ponds and streams, notes the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department.