CT DEP Weekly Fishing Report #1 4/27

• In general, anglers have been having good success fishing for trout in ponds and small-to-medium sized streams. Trout fishing has been spotty in larger lakes and very slow in larger streams and rivers. Fishing has been improving as river flows recede and lakes begin to clear and is expected to be good in most waters by the weekend.
  
• Recently stocked trout are expected to provide good to excellent fishing in all the Trout Parks and Salmon River (including TMA), Blackledge River, Mount Misery Brook, Myron Kinnie Brook, Pachaug River, Yantic River (including TMA), Bigelow Brook, Still River (Eastford.), Green Falls River, Shunock Brook, Hammonasset River (including TMA), Shetucket River, Susquetonscut Brook, Beaver Brook, Indiantown Brook, Hunts Brook, Roaring Brook (Stafford), Willimantic River, Farm River, Branford River, Scantic River, Jeremy River, Raymond Brook, Crystal Lake (Ellington), Broad Brook Mill Pond, Saw Mill Pond, Hewitt Fly Pond, Green Falls Reservoir, Paine Pond, Horse Pond and Black Pond (Woodstock).

• MARINE FISHING REPORT :The water temperature in Long Island Sound (LIS) is about 40.
  
• Striped bass fishing in the tidal rivers is good in the Thames River from Norwich Harbor down to the Montville Power Plant, Hamburg Cove in the Connecticut River, Housatonic River up to the Derby Dam, and Norwalk Harbor . Striped fishing in the lower Connecticut should improve as the high water conditions recede.
• Winter flounder fishing is hit or miss but the better places are Bluff Point State Park(Poquonock River ), Niantic River including the bay, Housatonic River , and Norwalk Harbor.