It is now late October here in Northern Vermont. While we are experiencing some very warm and sunny weather, many people aren’t complaining. The two photos are one of myself holding a small mouth bass that I caught while with a friend and a hand drawn map from above of the salmon hole. At this time of year most of the foliage has turned color and fallen off yet this year it still hangs on. There is still a large amount of foliage on the trees and the colors aren’t very vibrant. The grey squirrels are running all over the woods looking for nuts and seeds. More often than not a great blue heron, seagulls or egrets can be seen near the salmon hole. In the mud shores of the river below the salmon hole we see signs, in the way of tracks, of raccoons moving about looking for crayfish and small fish near shore. Fish species include, salmon, brown trout, steelhead trout,  smallmouth and largemouth bass, fall fish, sunfish and northern pike.

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Getting to the salmon hole is easy. Start on Colchester Ave and head towards Winooski. When you reach the bottom of the hill go across route 2 and turn left, don’t go across the bridge. As you walk down route 2 you will pass a parking lot for the salmon hole and then further down you’ll see the trail leading down. Stay to the left at every fork and you will come out to a big holding pool below the damn. That’s it, you’re there! I choose this site because it gives me an excuse to go fishing for class and it is only a 15 minute walk from my dorm. There is very little growing here as it is mostly bare rock but around the hole there is buckthorn, green ash, paper birch and many other species of shrubs and tress. All most all the vegetation is woody material here.