Vermont, world headquarters of the Orvis corporation, is best known for the Battenkill, which happens to flow through the back yard of the original Orvis store in Manchester. The Battenkill hasn’t been stocked since 1971, and the fishery supports a … Read More
Great new, open-source GIS tools have emerged in recent years. These allow you to set up the “ultimate” trout-finding workstation, as well as take advantage of extensive, free data sources. What makes these platforms so powerful? Probably the biggest single … Read More
Great new, open-source GIS tools have emerged in recent years. These allow you to take advantage of the extensive, free data sources you can find online, which are typically available only in “professional” formats and require a GIS workstation to … Read More
Introduced in 2006, and enhanced continuously since then, Google Maps is not only the slickest of the web mapping services (e.g. MapQuest and Microsoft’s “Bing”), it’s also the premiere web development platform for mapping. From our perspective, the integration between … Read More
When we first reviewed the National Map 1.0, we thought of it as a cool (free!) topo map viewer. Today, in version 2.0, it’s much more. It’s now a powerful mapping environment, focused on topography and hydrology, which you can … Read More
Waters 2. Method 3. Season 4. Size Limits 5. Daily Limit Lamoille River From the bridge on Route 15 in Johnson upstream (approximately 2.3 miles) to the Railroad St. bridge in Johnson. Angling, with artificial lures and flies only. Second … Read More
THIS PAGE WAS PRESERVED FROM THE 2006 SITE. BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE NEW DATA RESOURCES FOR GOOGLE EARTH There are so many different maps of Virginia we’ve provided here, that we thought it useful to list them all … Read More
For the fly fisherman interested in wild trout streams, online mapping tools eliminate much of the guesswork involved in exploring a new stream. Instead of mucking about on the ground, getting frustrated and lost, you can do the initial leg-work … Read More
Given the range of data available from the state and other sources, setting up a “Wild Trout” Workstation on Google Earth is a short investment of time that will pay dividends for years. We’ve prepared a comprehensive tutorial on how … Read More