Hi Folks,

 

My Brother and I will be making a trip to Vermont this fall to fish for SMB. Was wondering if anyone could share some info. on the a few good ponds to target SMs. We will be fishing from a small 12 ft Crawdad with 55# thrust Minn Kota so prefer smaller, out of the way ponds if there are any. I appreactiate any help and info. anyone is willing to give us. We were looking in the Northeast Kingdon area but open to fishing any part of the State that provides good/excellent Bronze Back fishing. TIA.

-Fireman

What I've found is most of the smaller lakes in VT that hold SMB also hold LMB. Get yourself a DeLorme Vermont/New Hampshire Gazeteer and you'll see every lake & pond, plus an index that lists the species. I just picked out 1 page east of St Johnsbury and see Neal Pond-185 acres, Miles Pond-215 acres, Shadow Lake-128 acres. Neal and Miles have both species, Shadow Lake is listed as only having SMBs, pickerel, bullhead and yellow perch. All 3 have a launch. I catch a lot of smallies in VT, but mostly on the CT River, further south.  

I've caught smallmouth in Amherst Lake(81 acres), Echo Lake(530 acres) and Lake Rescue(184 acres) along Rt 100 between Ludlow and Plymouth.  They're not big lakes but they're not ponds.  All three have boat launches.  There's an extension of Lake Rescue called Reservoir Pond that also has smallmouth but no boat launch that I know of.   I've seen folks launch kayaks and canoes from the parking lot area at the end of the pond, by the dam. My buddies and I have launched a Crawdad from worst places than that area.  Further north on RT 100, below West Bridgewater is Woodward Reservoir(110 acres), another place I've caught smallmouth.  It has a boat launch

 Further north along Rt. 100 near Killington is Kent Pond(71 acres), I've caught smallmouth there but they're not listed as the main bass species.  

  Like BurrStone if I'm looking for smallmouth I had for a river, in this case, the White River between Bethel and Sharon.