Free Ice Fishing Day and Festival
Always wanted to go ice fishing but couldn’t find a good excuse to get away? Now we have found that excuse for you: a "Free Ice Fishing Day" on the last Saturday in January.
Date and Location: January 25, 2020, Lake Elmore State Park
Time: 2:00pm
Meeting Location: A-side beach parking lot
Phone: 802.244.7103
Here’s your chance to get a basic introduction to fishing. A state park interpreter will teach you about casting, tying knots, fishing regulations, and aquatic ecology, and then you'll have a chance to go fishing.
Clinics are free, but you will pay the day-use fee to enter the park if you are not already camping at the park. No registration is required. Please call the park for more information.
Time: 9:30am-12:00pm
Meeting Location: Nature Center
Phone: 802.372.4300
Here’s your chance to get a basic introduction to fishing. A state park interpreter will teach you about casting, tying knots, fishing regulations, and aquatic ecology, and then you'll have a chance to go fishing. Free loaner equipment will be available.
Clinics are free, but you will pay the day-use fee to enter the park if you are not already camping at the park. No registration is required. Please call the park for more information.
Time: 7:00pm
Meeting location: Nature Center
Phone: 802.234.9451
Here’s your chance to get a basic introduction to fishing. A state park interpreter will teach you about casting, tying knots, fishing regulations and aquatic ecology and then you'll have a chance to go fishing. Free loaner equipment will be available.
Clinics are free, but you will pay the day-use fee to enter the park if you are not already camping at the park. No registration is required. Please call the park for more information.
Fishing Event Date: 6/15/2019
Address of Event: 3979 VT Route 131, Weathersfield
Contact: Mark Richardson | Email: weathersfieldproctorlibrary@gmail.com | Phone: (802) 674-2863
Pre-registration is required by June 1. Fifty participants will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis. Sign up online or in person at the Weathersfield Proctor Library.
This event is part of the department’s Children’s Fishing Program, designed to give kids the opportunity for a fun and successful fishing experience. The event is sponsored by a local organization and the department provides 8 to 10” stocked trout for the kids to test out their angling skills. Fishing will take place from 9am to noon, rain or shine, with casting practice before starting at 8am.
Educational stations will be provided, staffed in part by members of the Windsor High School Bass Fishing Team. Kids will learn about fish location/identification, baiting, casting, and food preparation.
The Team will also offer a fish cleaning station so that kids can take home their catches ready to eat. Bait has been generously provided by Tillman’s Bait Shop, a local business.
Families wishing to participate should bring a rigged fishing pole with tackle and a bucket or stringer. Some donated equipment is available for those who don’t have it.
DATE: Saturday, June 8, 2019 - ALL DAY
LOCATION: Statewide
Vermont’s Free Fishing Day gives resident and nonresident anglers the opportunity to go fishing without a license for the day in Vermont lakes and streams. The day will be highlighted by a free family fishing festival in Grand Isle as well as opening day of the state’s regular bass fishing season.
Designed for young anglers and families, this exciting event offers basic fishing instruction and the chance for kids to catch big trout in a hatchery pond.
WHERE: Ed Weed Fish Culture Station, 14 Bell Hill Road, Grand Isle | map
WHEN: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
For more information call 802-372-3171.
CLINIC IS FULL
Date: Friday, May 10
Time: 6pm- 9pm
Location: Panton, VT | Map
The clinic will explore different fishing styles to target bullhead, which are found in many of the shallower, muddier lakes, ponds, and rivers of Vermont. Brown bullhead, like other species in the catfish family, are nocturnal bottom feeders, so the clinic will take place in the evening when they are beginning to be active.
For additional information: letsgofishing@vermont.gov | Phone: 802-265-2279
Date: Saturday, June 15
Time: 9:00 am to 1:00pm
Location: Northwoods Stewardship Center, 154 Leadership Drive, Island Pond VT 05846 |Map
This hands-on course will cover the basics of fly fishing including topics such as: regulations, knot tying, casting, terminology, and more! There will be time at the end of the course for participants to fish and try out their new skills. All equipment will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring waders or hip boots. The course will be taught by Let’s Go Fishing Instructor Paul Noel.
This event is part of the department’s Children’s Fishing Program, designed to give kids the opportunity for a fun and successful fishing experience. The event is sponsored by a local organization and the department provides 8 to 10” stocked trout for the kids to test out their angling skills.
Fishing Event Date: 8/9/2019
Fishing Event Location: Kirsteins Pond
Town of Event: West Rupert
Address of Event: Sandgate Road
Sponsoring Organization: Rupert Fish & Game Club
Contact: Mike Lourie | AM Phone: (802) 394-2928
This event is part of the department’s Children’s Fishing Program, designed to give kids the opportunity for a fun and successful fishing experience. The event is sponsored by a local organization and the department provides 8 to 10” stocked trout for the kids to test out their angling skills.
Fishing Event Date: 6/16/2019
Fishing Event Location: CCF&G Pond
Town of Event: Richmond
Address of Event: 1397 West White Hill
Sponsoring Organization: Chittenden County Fish & Game Club
Contact: Richard Bissonette | AM Phone: (802) 310-1003 | PM Phone: (802) 310-1003
Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife
Commissioner Louis Porter
1 National Life Drive
Davis 2
Montpelier, VT 05620-3702
802-828-1000
fwinformation@vermont.gov
