Post-Irene advice on fishing in the Green Mountains

[mtthwnvk]

Hey All,
I have a trip planned for early July to head up from New Jersey to visit Hill Farmstead and a few other places. I'll be camping in the green mountains and had planned on blue-lining for Brook trout.

Every lead I find and research is filled with a lot of talk about Irene damage. have the small streams recovered? I found a few "studies" but they were rather confusing to read, and was just curious on the state of things in that area

Thanks!

 

[Catskill Mountain Man]

You'll be fine, the fish always come back and its been a few years since irene.

 

[Rusty Spinner]

Most rivers and streams still have years to go to recover fully. It was mostly the insect life that suffered so greatly due to intense scouring and bedload movement of the cobbles. That takes a lot of years to fully recover, but each year brings better and better fishing up there.

 

[Trout Nazi]

CMM is correct (even a broken clock is right twice a day), the rivers are just fine. The White got hit the hardest, but the Lamoille, Winooski, etc. are just fine. The small streams are also just fine, since they have more stable pools, and since they're on a steeper gradient, come up and back down very quickly.