Perch Pond

Type
Lake or reservoir, Vermont (East)
Designation
Trophy / quality trout water
USGS gauges
None listed
Guides
1 nearby
Shops
1 nearby

Today on Perch Pond

No live reading for this water
Why there is no reading

Nothing live is published for this water, so there is no reading or verdict today. The readings section below says what we checked.

Regulations & access Guides & shops

Perch Pond is a lake or reservoir in Vermont, listed as Trophy / quality trout water by Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department.

More about Perch Pond

1 guide and 1 shop nearby are listed here.

Updated · Sources: Trophy Trout Ponds

Representative photograph of similar water; not a photograph of this place.
Representative photograph, not this water.
Where it is

Perch Pond is a lake or reservoir in Vermont. Vermont has 2 waters named Perch Pond in the USGS Geographic Names Information System; this page is the lake whose point is in Lamoille County, the one the agency list names.

No real-time gauge

No real-time gauge on this water. We found no active USGS gauge on Perch Pond or on its stream system within about 25 miles, and no dam operator publishes data for it. A missing gauge says nothing about the water itself. Find the gauges nearest Perch Pond

About these readings

Nothing live is published for this water; the note below says what we checked.

Where to fish

About this

Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Perch Pond on the map

About this

Shops and guides within 40 miles

Map of Perch Pond: gauges, shops and guides

Map of Perch Pond, and shops and guides with an exact address within 40 miles.

Restrooms near Perch Pond

Restrooms near Perch Pond

Restrooms within 2 miles of Perch Pond in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.

No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.

Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.

Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.

More water near Perch Pond

  • Mooselookmeguntic Lake from a marina dock at Oquossoc, with boats and distant hillsTrophy / quality trout waterRepresentative photo · not Zack Woods Pond
    Photo credit

    Mooselookmeguntic Lake from Oquossoc, Maine. Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Zack Woods Pond.

    Zack Woods Pond

    Vermont · about 1 mi

  • Rangeley Lake with a small wooded island under grey clouds, beyond early autumn treesSpecial-regulation trout waterRepresentative photo · not Elligo Lake
    Photo credit

    Rangeley Lake, Maine. Photo: Manuel Velazquez, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Elligo Lake.

    Elligo Lake

    Vermont · about 7 mi

  • Lake Jocassee's calm water with wooded mountains on the far shoreSpecial-regulation trout waterRepresentative photo · not Caspian Lake
    Photo credit

    Lake Jocassee from a canoe, South Carolina. Photo: TimothyJ from Atlanta, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Caspian Lake.

    Caspian Lake

    Vermont · about 9 mi

  • The Winooski River falls between Winooski and BurlingtonTrophy / quality trout waterRepresentative photo · not Lamoille River
    Photo credit

    The Winooski River falls between Winooski and Burlington, Vermont. Photo: Ken Gallager, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Lamoille River.

    Lamoille River

    Vermont · about 9 mi

  • A boat on hazy Lake Greenwood with wooded points on either sideSpecial-regulation trout waterRepresentative photo · not East Long Pond
    Photo credit

    Lake Greenwood, South Carolina. Photo: JCMLuis, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not East Long Pond.

    East Long Pond

    Vermont · about 13 mi

  • The sun rising over Lake Marion seen through shoreline treesSpecial-regulation trout waterRepresentative photo · not Nichols Pond
    Photo credit

    Sunrise over Lake Marion from Santee State Park, South Carolina. Photo: Andrew Parlette from Elkridge,MD, US, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Nichols Pond.

    Nichols Pond

    Vermont · about 13 mi

Regulations

About this

Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.

Official designation: Trophy / quality trout water

Each comes from the agency's own published list; where the list names a reach it is quoted. A designation applies to the listed reach, not necessarily the whole water. Listed in the finder under trout.

The water on the map

About this

Measured from the NHDPlus High Resolution (flowlines and waterbodies) (U.S. Geological Survey, read 2026-11-04) for this water’s own mapped feature. Rounded figures; they describe the channel, not today’s conditions.

Surface area
8.77 acres
Watershed
Lamoille River

Public land along it

About this

Areas the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), public access (U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project, read 2026-11-04) lists as owned or held in easement and open to the public, crossed by the mapped shoreline. Boundaries are mapped, not surveyed. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

0.5 of 0.5 mi of shoreline on public land

  • Green River Reservoir State ParkUnknown · 0.5 mi

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Guides and shops near Perch Pond

About this

Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

Guides

1 shop nearby

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. After them, fly-focused guides within 40 miles whose website does not name it. Distances are straight-line.

Shops: fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop’s website gives its location (within 60 miles); otherwise the shop is in one of the towns within 25 miles of the water.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Species and hatches

About this

What 1 nearby guide website mention: what guides advertise, not a survey or a promise of what you will catch.

Named on 1 nearby guide website

  • Brook trout1
  • Smallmouth bass1

When the bugs come off

Regional hatch months: Catskills and the Northeast
About this chart

8 hatches charted for the region, not measured on this water. From Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission.

  1. January: no charted hatch
  2. February: no charted hatch
  3. March: no charted hatch
  4. April: 3 charted hatches
  5. May: 2 charted hatches
  6. June: 1 charted hatch
  7. July: 1 charted hatch
  8. August: 1 charted hatch
  9. September: 2 charted hatches
  10. October: 1 charted hatch
  11. November: no charted hatch
  12. December: no charted hatch

Blue Quill (April) · Hendrickson (April) · Quill Gordon (April) · Green drake (May) · Mayflies (best hatches) (May) · Mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies (June to September) · and 2 more on the chart

How we put this together

Named by guides nearby (within 40 miles), counted from the species each guide lists on its own site. No agency page we hold lists species for this water.

Plan a trip here

About this

None of our destination hubs is within 40 miles in a straight line. The trip planner builds a trip around the water itself: the guides and shops listed within 40 miles of it, its gauges and its nearest towns and airports.

No hub within 40 miles

Gear checklist

About this

A stillwater fly-fishing checklist for lakes and ponds: a 9–10 ft 5–6 weight rod, floating and intermediate lines, chironomids and leeches, and float-tube options, with estimated prices and where to buy.

An angler stands knee-deep in a calm lake with the rod bent, playing a trout

Lakes & stillwater

9′–10′ rod, 5–6 weight, floating + intermediate lines · Rainbow, brook and brown trout in lakes

Open the checklist
Videos for this water (3)

Watch: stillwater trout basics

About this

Chironomids, leeches and where fish hold in a lake.

Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.

  • Catch More Trout in Lakes Using Indicators – Stillwater Fly Fishing TipsEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Stillwater Fly Fishing Is Simpler Than You Think! | Introduction to Stillwater Fly FishingEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Why is this Chironomid Fly Pattern So Versatile? | Two-Toner BC Chironomid | Fly Tying TutorialEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube

Not sponsored All videos on stillwater

Fish Tales

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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Perch Pond.

No stories from here yet.

Sources for this page

Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.

Something wrong?

All 8 sources and dates

A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.

Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the point for “Perch Pond” (lake) in the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Water type is our own classification.