BassDude802

here in VT, I get mine online as it is pretty painless. Quick trip across the border i get my Nh license at a Walmart. When i go to RI I go to a local tackle shop, it seems a little easier. A couple of years back I needed my Maryland license I remember it being a bit annoying to get in online. All in all, I'd rather deal with that hassle than engaging in an awkward convo with a game warden.

Yeah I think things are going to be sped up

Im in southern Vermont, and I have caught fish in set backs of rivers with sheets of ice cover slowly working a jig or a jerkbait. Really slow! I always assume ice out date to be around mid April, some years are earlier, not this year

I prefer crappie and perch, to each their own!

Still lots of ice here in VT, warmer for the next few days should hopefully open up a few spots.

Hope someone can point me in the right direction. Im in southern VT (Brattleboro area) I heard through the grapevine the gate in Belchertown is a good one for smallies. I'm gonna be going in mid may. Thanks in advance for the help! ?

Im in southern VT and for a few days dragging a tube was very productive. It rained one night and this usually clear river became stained / borderline dirty. The tube bite shut off. Ended up skunking that day on a river I know is loaded with smallies. In hindsight I should have thrown a few crank baits to perhaps get a reaction strike. What else is effective in these conditions?

I fish a place that is very similar. Frogs and when those aren't working been really like Kietech Swing Impact fats on a 5/0 swimbait hook with the screw on, running it through weeds has been getting me some decent bites and its pretty weedless

Here in soutern VT they just made some beds, places I fished at a week ago that were bare are now loaded. Fished a tourney in northern VT and saw maybe 2 all over the resivior we were in

Carp apparently get vegetation stuck in their gills from time to time from sucking muck off the bottom and they will dislodge by jumping. It's not uncommon to see 30-40# carp here in southern VT breach like they are humpback whales to do this!

Pitch to everything, why not?

True! There are some decent size bass in this particular water that I'm sure will take advantage of the well fed blue gill population and it will all work out.

I've had similar happen and I think it is pike / pickerel. Might wait till some heavy pads/ mats form during the post season and bust out the frog in a few weeks.

Lessoned learned those blue gill jumped on that bed so quickly

Hello! I duped Mr. LMB with a jig after I dropped it in his bed. After I let him go he went to recover somewhere else. To my dismay, a gang of sunfish descended upon the bed and started gobbling down. Did I ruin this bed? I'm going to take a lok at the bed today and see what happened (caught him a couple of days ago) Feeling kinda bad about it Thoughts?