Local Waters

← Around Portsmouth

Lake / pond Open — summer low water

Coits Pond

Cabot, VT · about 3 hours from Portsmouth (typical, off-peak)

Official public lot from the state access map. Confirm the sign on site and the current rule. We have not written a full card for this water yet.

Salt River / stream Lake / pond Shop (desk) Guide only Parking Stay State access Private — ask first

Around now

Most likely in this drive this week. Not a guarantee — confirm the official rule.

  • Smallmouth bass Smallmouth bass
  • Trout Trout
  • Sunfish and crappie Sunfish and crappie

Also worth a thought: Largemouth bass, Chain pickerel.

Season
Legal harvest season. Small streams get skinny. Official VT Fish & Wildlife wins. Official rule
License
Vermont fishing license
Park
Coits Pond fishing access, Cabot
Wednesday conditions

W 1 mph around dawn. Fine to go.

Sky
⛅ 89° partly
Sun and moon
Rise 6:04 · 🌔 Waxing gibbous · Set 7:39
Wind at dawn
W 1 mph · Partly Cloudy · 63°F
Wind later
  • dawn: W 1 mph
  • 10am: SW 1 mph
  • 2pm: W 2 mph
  • dusk: NW 7 mph
Notes
Official public access. Confirm VT regulations.
Maps Call shop

Log this trip

Private. On this phone, and in your test book if you signed in on Journal.

W 1 mph · Partly Cloudy

How did it go

Pictures only — no video.

Opens a map. Locate finds you, then tap to drop or drag the pin. Private — not the public map.

Shops

The Fly Rod Shop

2703 Waterbury Rd, Stowe, VT 05672
Call — mountain hours

Northern Vermont desk. Lamoille, Winooski, Kingdom public water. Ask them.

Call Website

Guides

Shop desks, plus a few independents who fish public water. We do not take a cut. Call them.

No desk pinned yet. Ask the shop above who they trust here.

If this isn’t the day