Many lakes and rivers in our area aren’t ice-covered just yet – but anglers are welcome to fish year-round in many areas, as ...

State and federal agencies have spent decades trying to restore Lake Champlain's native salmon population. Officials say a new tool on the Boquet... Sep 23, 2025 — State and federal agencies have ...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) - Some 26,000 new salmon are now swimming in Lake Champlain. A fish biologist with New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation says the goal is for salmon to ...

Fisheries personnel from the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation were at the Plattsburgh marina today to begin the last year of an effort to restore Atlantic Salmon into Lake ...

On a late-October afternoon over the sparkling waters of the Winooski, Lee Simard reeled in quite the catch. Instead of nylon fishing line, taut steel cables hoisted a massive concrete bucket bearing ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Biologists are trying to determine whether a warm, dry fall is responsible for a drop in the number of landlocked Atlantic salmon that swam up a Lake Champlain tributary in Vermont ...

MONTPELIER -- The number of landlocked salmon that swam up the Winooski River from Lake Champlain this fall was the highest since a program began in 1993 to help the fish get around a series of power ...

PLATTSBURGH — Lake Champlain, long known anecdotally as one of the best fisheries in the nation, has gained official recognition of such a title. FishingBooker, one of the world’s largest platforms ...

The sound of whirring machinery filled the air at the Winooski One Hydroelectric Plant on Wednesday. Slowly, a metal container made its way up the side of the dam as a small crowd looked on excitedly.