CT DEP Weekly Fishing UPDATED!! 6/1/06

Updated on 6/5/06
LAKES & PONDS – It’s big fish time! Anglers can expect the majority of this season’s big trout to be caught from now through mid June. Reports include Lake Wonoscopomuc (5 lb, 23” brown), Lake Saltonstall, Bashan, Crystal Lake (Ellington), East Twin Lake (50 fish for two anglers), Candlewood Lake, Cedar Lake, Great Hollow Pond and West Hill Pond (35 fish for 1 angler). Anglers can expect good fishing next week at Beach Pond, Black Pond (Meriden/ Middlefield), Cedar Lake and Mashapaug Lake.
CONNECTICUT RIVER – STRIPED BASS are throughout the river. Recent muddy waters have slowed down the catch. With better weather and lower flows, fishing will pickup. School size (16-25”) fish and adults up to 48” are showing up. Surface poppers will provide some exciting action under clear water conditions, while trolling tube & worm and casting soft plastics work best in stained water. Some anglers have started using hickory shad as bait and are reporting success.
SHAD fishing is slowing.
NORTHERN PIKE are reported in Wethersfield Cove, Portland Bridge, White Oaks Cove and along the mainstem from Hartford to Haddam (smaller fish).
CATFISH are being taken in the Glastonbury-Middletown area on chunk bait.
REMINDER TO ANGLERS- The only areas open to fishing for Atlantic salmon are the Naugatuck, Shetucket, and Housatonic Rivers (these salmon are expected to be the stocked broodstock Salmon). Atlantic salmon caught in any other rivers and streams (especially the Connecticut River drainage) are wild Atlantic salmon and should be released immediately with as little handling as possible.
BLUEFISH fishing is good in the Race, Plum Gut and off Millstone Point.