Fly Fishing Guide to the Battenkill: Complete Guide to Locations, Hatches, and History

The main stem of the 60-mile-long Battenkill forms from the confluence of the East and West Branches in downtown Manchester, Vermont, home of the Orvis Company and the American Museum of Fly Fishing. Even though notoriously challenging to fish, anglers from all over the world ply its fabled waters for brook trout (it’s rare for a river this size to have sturdy populations of brookies) and big brown trout that swim in its waters almost as a long way downstream as its confluence with the Hudson River in New York.

In Fly Fishing Guide to the Battenkill, native expert Doug Lyons covers the fishing get right of entry to, hatches, patterns, and methods for both the Vermont and New York stretches of the river, in addition to its major tributaries, including both its East and West Branches close to Dorset and Roaring Branch, Green River, and Bromley Brook.