still lotso of team tournies on the river

[Gary P]

there are a couple out of Brunelles and Sportsmans, plus another on Sept 10 th at Spfld Vt from 7-3, 8 fish, will need 23 and change to win that one! Everyone catches tons of fish up there! pm me for details

[tacoma]

How is it fishing the Spfld Vt section of the conn. compared to mass? Particularly bass fishing?

[seabass]

i think its very similar. we used to go there every year and always did similar #s and size

[YOTE BUSTER]

Tacoma at the price of gas plus a VT. or NH lic.I would fish the river in mass.Big bear has fished up there maybe he can tell you a little more about it?

[Bigbear]

Tacoma

What are you after L.M. S.M. Pike each section of the river has better sections for each. There is also some walleye fishing. There are some nice sections below Bellows Falls and above. If you want I will PM you ramp info. Two many eye balls Yikes that just come here for info. But will not have any of there own. Smashhead

[tacoma]

Just curious...probably won't be going north this year! The hunting season is upon us starting tuesday and my fishing begins to slow down until ice over! Bear hunting starts Tuesday!

I hear ya about the peekers who just watch for info. There is only a core base of us who regularly share info...thanks for the help though!

[arlow]

Gary,

Is it true you are required to have both NH and VT licenses to fish the river up there? I am not talking going past the first underpasses in the creeks on either side but the main river.

Thanks

[YOTE BUSTER]

Arlow your wrong you need a lic to take fish your going to keep in the state you are parked in or if you are fishing back waters of either state. I said that you need one or the other.

[arlow]

I think your right Yote but our Bass Club has been told different. We were going to have a Tournament out of Hinsdale NH last year and we were told we had to have both licenses. Not sure who gave us that info or if it is even accurate. That is why I am asking.

[Gary P]

Here is the real deal. Nh owns the rights to the river from the Nh side to the low water mark of the vt side at the mouth of any set back. If you are a Vt Resident you CAN fish both sides of the river, but all NON-residents have to have a NH liscence, Sea bass,I have been on the river for 18 years and there is absolutely no comparison in the fishing to any section in Mass! It is 1000 times better in all aspects, size, numbers, species, cleanliness. That would be like saying Champlain is equal to Hampton ponds!. LM over 5 and up to 7 are regularly caught, the Ave smallie is 2.5 lbs with many days never catching anything under 2! If you catch less than 20 fish per trip over 2 lbs, you plain just don't know how to fish! The pike grow big and many over 10 lbs are caught up there each year. There is a fantastic Walleye fishery up there and if you target them at the right time, many 50 fish days are possible. The scenery is beautiful, no bondy's smell and large sewer outflows and culverts dumping the Spfld crap into the river. Hardly any boaters, jet skiiers and pleasure boaters getting in your way, the 20 mile section from the Bellows damn North has NO marinas! in Nov-Dec, the perch fishing is out of the world with 100 fish days if you decide. Take a typical tournie out of the Holyoke section and maybe 1 boat will have 13 lbs for 5 fish and many anglers will report skunks or dinks out there. Our last tourny, everyone weighed in an 8 fish limit and 20 lbs ( or 2.5 ave) did not even take a check! The only reason I fish in Mass is cause my boat is still down and we fish a few tournies, other than that, I spend the whole season up there.