Water Activities
The water's great!
Branbury State Park, Lake Dunmore has a boat launch and canoe rentals, Route 53, Salisbury; 802-247-5925
Bring your own canoe for a trip up Otter Creek to Cornwall and Middlebury. Pass views of farms and covered bridges. Flatwater and quickwater. RoVT Lake Region Fishing Service catch of the day, Route 73W, Brandon.
Fishing is great on Lake Dunmore stocked with warm water species, lake trout and landlocked salmon.
Also fish Silver Lake and Sugar Hill Reservoir, stocked with rainbow trout, browns, and brookies, both in the Green Mountain National Forest.
The Neshobe River offers cool water trout fishing. Brown trout dominate lower down, rainbow and brook trout in the sections up towards Brandon Gap.
"Fishing in Vermont is like fishing in Paradise," according to Captain Nate Laskiewicz, a licensed captain and guide and founder of Vermont Lake Region Fishing Service. The Lake region of Vermont offers many choices of lakes to fish! You can make it happen on a large body of water, or the secluded lake or pond in the Green Mountains.
Don't forget to pick up a Vermont fishing license!