freestone river · smallmouth bass · pike · trout
Otter Creek (Middlebury)
Live conditions for Otter Creek (Middlebury): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
235cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 235 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · -1.7% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage1.40 ft
Engine callOFF 235 cfs outside wade band 400–2000
The water
Otter Creek (Middlebury) is a freestone river in Vermont, fished for smallmouth bass, pike, trout — brown, rainbow, brook. On free-flowing water the trajectory is the story: falling and clearing after a bump is the window, rising water pushes fish to the banks and brings colour.
smallmouth basspiketroutbrown troutrainbow troutbrook trout
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Otter Creek – Neilson Parcel Access (Magoon)ramp
- Otter Creek - Sudbury Access Areawalk in
- Otter Creek – Cornwall Swamp (Cedar Swamp Bridge)carry
- Otter Creek - Kwonumosk Access Areawalk in
- Otter Creek - Cornwall Swamp Access (Cedar Swamp Bridge)carry
- Otter Creek – Middlebury (Middlebury Falls)walk in
- Belden Falls Dam Put-incarry
- Pulp Mill Bridgebridge
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.
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