Grayson Carey's dad, Jason, netted the fish during the Lake Champlain Father's Day Derby in June 2025. Vermont officials ...

RUTLAND — Vermont Fish and Wildlife announced a Freshwater Drum caught in 2025 has been officially certified as a new Vermont state record.

Grayson Carey of Colchester caught a freshwater drum last summer while competing in the Lake Champlain International Father's Day Derby with his dad and grandfather.

A Colchester boy has been recognized for a record-setting catch at a derby he competed in with his father and grandfather.

Free non-urgent health care clinics for uninsured or underinsured adults in Rutland County are offered at Rutland County ...

A 10-year-old Colchester boy has set a new state fish record.

The final round of lake trout stocking in Lake Champlain in Spring 2025. Courtesy of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department A decades-long effort to increase wild lake trout stock has recorded a ...

Lake trout populations in Lake Champlain are now self-sustaining, eliminating the need for stocking. This success follows a decades-long program to control sea lamprey, a parasitic fish harming lake ...

It took more than four decades, but the lake trout population in Lake Champlain is now self-sustaining, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. That means DEC, along ...

Wild lake trout are making a resurgence on Lake Champlain after the native species was eradicated more than a century ago. Anglers and fisheries biologists are celebrating the revival, but the fish ...

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