Posted By:
Michael-Bride
Field Editor
Lake Champlain (scouting) 10-02-2006 04:55
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Satuday morning my father and I made our way over to the lake to have one last look befor the opener. In all it was a great outing. We saw a whole variety of puddlers in pockets of 2 or 3 and from 20 to 30. In all a fair amount of birds. The Blue wings we saw are what caught my attention. Those have managed to elude me where we hunt so with any luck they’ll still be around next week.
The lake is pretty low. If you use the north launch at Larabee’s be aware that the old bridge posts are about 10 inches below the water.
Good luck and keep swinging!Bubba…
Posted By:
Michael-Bride
Field Editor
Vermont 2006….. 08-27-2006 11:45
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – Over 70 Degrees
The Vermont 2006 syllybus is posted so check it out for those of you wanting to plan your vacation on the lake…..
http://www.vtfishandwildlife.com/library/reports_and_documents/Hunting_and_trapping/Migratory_Waterfowl_laws.pdf
Posted By:
Michael-Bride
Field Editor
None 08-21-2006 05:01
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – Over 70 Degrees
Well folks it’s almost that time again. Time to get the critter droppings out of the boat and cobwebs out of the shotgun. September goose hunting is around the corner followed by ducks in October. After a hot late summer there has recently been a cool bite in the air first thing in the morning and it’s starting to get my blood flowin again. This summer has flown by but will be replaced shortly by the best time of year. Waterfowl season….
Posted By:
Zeke The Zen Puppy
Guest
08-20-2006 21:41
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Event Details: Central Vermont Chapter
When: Friday, September 08, 2006 6:00 p.m.
Event Type: Banquet
Location: Montpelier Elks Club
Contact Name: Vicki Jasman
Phone: (802)229-4275
We’re having our 32nd dinner fundraiser on Sept. 8th, 2006, at the Montpelier Elks Club.
6:00p.m. cocktails and 7:00p.m. dinner.
Membership w/dinner is $50
Member w/Guest is $70
Greenwing is $25
Sponsorship w/2 dinners is $275
For 8 sponsors we are raffling off a .44 Mag. Ruger pistol. For the next 5 sponsors we’ll have a Omega 50 Cal. Blackpowder Rifle. Then the next 5 we’ll have a Nikon Buckmaster gun scope.
Tickets can be purchased by calling either Diane Keith @ 802-728-4352 or Vicki Jasman at 802-229-4275.
Posted By:
Zeke The Zen Puppy
Guest
Lake Champlain Waterfowling Zome 07-30-2006 09:13
Arctic Blast – Over 70 Degrees
For Immediate Release: July 25, 2006
Waterfowl Meetings
— Aug. 8 Skenesburgh Rescue Squad building, Whitehall, NY 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
— Aug. 9 University of Vermont’s Billings Student Center – Burlington, VT, Room 101. 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
WATERBURY, VT – The public meetings to review and discuss the status of waterfowl populations and waterfowl hunting seasons for the Lake Champlain and Interior Vermont Zones will be held Tuesday, August 8, in Whitehall, New York, and Wednesday, August 9, in Burlington, Vermont.
The annual meetings are being held by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department.
The August 8th meeting will be held at Skenesburgh Rescue Squad building in Whitehall, New York, while the August 9th meeting will be held at the University of Vermont’s Billings Student Center, Room 101. Both meetings will run from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Those attending the Vermont meeting should park off Colchester Avenue.
Vermont and New York waterfowl hunters are encouraged to attend one of these meetings and share their recommendations and opinions with other waterfowl hunters, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board and Vermont and New York wildlife personnel.
The current Lake Champlain Waterfowl Zone, established in 1988, includes all of Lake Champlain and an additional narrow strip of shoreline in both Vermont and New York. Under Federal regulations, waterfowl seasons, bag limits, and shooting hours in the Lake Champlain Zone must be uniform throughout the entire zone. Therefore, waterfowl seasons in New York’s portion of the Lake Champlain Zone must be identical to the waterfowl season in Vermont’s portion of the Zone.
Comments received at the August meetings, as well as input and recommendations from the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation will be reviewed by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, a 14-member board appointed by the Governor of Vermont. The board will adopt the final waterfowl regulations and seasons for the Lake Champlain Zone at its regularly scheduled business meeting on August 15, in Montpelier, Vermont.
For Further Information please contact: Bill Crenshaw at 802-878-1564
Media contact:
Bill Crenshaw (802) 878-1564
Ron Regan 802-241-3700
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Posted By:
Zeke The Zen Puppy
Guest
Central Lake Champlain 05-10-2006 07:36
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Walleye reports are tricking in: water is low, fewhuge fish reported. Even the best walleye anglers are not boating numbers.
Smallmouth are biting viciously in some locations with the season two weeks away.
Reports that salmon and lakers are moving into deeper waters, but planer board fishermen are still doing okay in 5-12 feet.
Canada gosling are making an appearance. Woodies busy on the nest.
W.P. Sullivan
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“Dance with the one that brung ya” – Ducks Unlimited. More habitat on the ground means more ducks in the sky.
Posted By:
Zeke The Zen Puppy
Guest
04-17-2006 21:27
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Boat fishermen reporting salmon and lakers still feeding eagerly near the surface. Planer boards seem to be the way to go.
Reports of salmon being taken on chunked frozen smelt in “The Culvert” off the main road in Sandbar State Park.
W.P. Sullivan
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“Dance with the one that brung ya” – Ducks Unlimited. More habitat on the ground means more ducks in the sky.
Posted By:
Zeke The Zen Puppy
Guest
Mallets Bay and Sandbar 04-01-2006 23:47
– – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
The ice in Mallet’s Bay broke up in a strong wind and pushed off into the south facing bays. Mallets Bay is open, wit just a little ice debris in the area around mallets Creek’s outlet.
Despite the wind and rain, we had many guys tell us they and their buddies were chunk-baiting frozen smelt along South Hero, Grand Isle and the Causeway and catching nice salmon in 4-10 ft of water in the shallow. We sold out of frozen smelt by 5 pm and had to get restocked for tomorrow morning. I could only find a dozen packets for the store’s freezer.
Posted By:
Zeke The Zen Puppy
Guest
Mallets Bay 04-01-2006 04:51
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Anglers catching salmon from the shoreline on the Champlain Islands. Frozen smelt fished on the bottom.
Mallets Bay itself is still almost completely ice covered. But, the ice is rotten and slushy — STAY OFF!
Our new store – Dockside Outdoor Supply – opened our doors at Mallets Bay this morning at 0500 hrs. Not an auspicious start. — The ice chest broke down. We got it cheap, but I still spent the evening in Sears buying a new one before the bulk ice melted. Reinforcing once again the Vermont proverb: You want cheap – you get cheap; you want it bad – you get it bad.
— The bulk of the inventory was shipped from Moorhead City, NC on TUE and had not arrived by 7 pm (1900 hrs) on FRI. UPS will not deliver on Saturdays, so we lose the weekend.
— The pegboard hardware and hooks were in hat order.
— The credit card machine installation guy did not arrive. (What? You only accept cash and checks? What are you, communists?!?)
— The bait-scooping net, bait containers and inventory of live bait buckets did not arrive.
— The Town has still not approved the sign permit for the storefront façade. The Pepsi distributor whipped up some cheap plastic temporary signs for the 4×8 window.
The bank did not process our request for a small line of credit for the store – $12,000 – because ‘Dockside Outdoor Supply’ has no credit history (it hasn’t opened yet), and Sullivan Industries, LLC has only a short history since we converted Ben’s business into an S-corp on 01 JAN 2006. We have money to open, buy the emergency fund would make us feel better until the receipts start when we open.
— And worst of all … the coffee pot stopped working.
We decided to open anyway to sell our live bait, crawlers and worms and frozen smelt. Besides, we have a line of Rawhide Game Call Company turkey calls and wing bone strikers on the shelf. We have cold soda and water, salty snacks and candy bars. I cab also catch the minners with my bare hands and hope the customer has his own bait pail.
“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln …. How was the play?”
[Edited By WP-Sullivan on 2006-04-01 04:53]
Posted By:
Zeke The Zen Puppy
Guest
People’s Republic of Montpelier 02-01-2006 16:15
Arctic Blast – Over 70 Degrees
Publisher rates Vermont as brightest state
Vermonters are the smartest people in America.
No, really you are. In fact, according to a recently released list of the brightest states in the country, Vermont was ranked at the top. It outranked college-rich Massachusetts (No. 3), tech-savvy California (No. 46) and overachieving New York (No. 10).
“Vermont shines in many key areas of education,” said Scott Morgan, president of Morgan Quitno Press, which publishes, among other things, compilations of safest, healthiest, most dangerous and most improved states. “A high percentage of its students excel in reading, writing and math. In addition, schools in Vermont have smaller class sizes. excellent college board scores, very little violence, and lower pupil-teacher ratios than in most other states.”
Those are among the 21 factors used by the publisher in its annual “Education State Rankings” reference when it compiles the list.
The award was bestowed — as usual — in a quiet, almost unnoticed fashion a little more than a week ago. And, as was the case two years ago when Vermont was named second-smartest state — state officials were at a loss to fully explain the secret for scholastic success.
Or reasons why bottom-ranked Arizona, or next-to-the-bottom Mississippi, remain the country’s not-smartest, year after year.
While Vermonters may be basking in all of their brainy-istic glory, they have more reason to celebrate.
The same group that calls Vermont the “smartest” also says Vermont is third most livable (behind New Hampshire and Minnesota). They say Vermont is healthiest (just ahead of New Hampshire and Massachusetts). And, believe it or not, we are the second-safest, just behind North Dakota.
Vermonters can take solace, however, in the fact that Vermont is the fourth-best place to work in the nation, according to a recent study by the University of Massachusetts.
We have the country’s 93rd-best university (University of Vermont) according to U.S. News & World Report.
You could look it up.
Of course, being as smart as you are, you probably already knew that.
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If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the Union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont. — President Calvin Coolidge
[Edited By WP-Sullivan on 2006-02-01 16:16]
