New Britain Herald

• FISHING REPORT: River and stream trout fishing is excellent in most areas! Bait anglers are having success using worms and corn/mealworm combinations. Successful fly anglers are fishing Pheasant Tails, Yellow Prince Nymphs and Mahogany Duns. On the Farmington, the Hendrickson hatch is being called one of the best in recent memory. The Housatonic River is also producing both numbers and size of trout.Adamsin the evening are producing. Some Blue Wing Olives are on the water with Green Caddis starting to show up. Hendrickson spinner-falls are coming to a close. Good to excellent fishing is also reported from: the Farmill, Mill, Muddy, Naugatuck, Norwalk, Pequonnock, Quinnipiac and Still Rivers, Hall Meadow Brook, Sandy Brook, and the Kent Falls Trout Park, and the Branford, Coginchaug, Farm, Fenton, Five Mile, Jeremy, Moosup, Mount Hope, Natchaug, and theSalmon River.
• Anglers are enjoying good to excellent trout fishing in many lakes/ponds throughout Connecticut including Lake McDonough, Lake Wonoscopomuc, Crystal Highland, Candlewood Alexander, Coventry,East Twin, Amos, and Congamond Lakes, West Hill, Beach, Squantz ,Black Pond, and the Black Rock, Wolfe Park, Stratton Brook and Chatfield Hollow Trout Parks.
• Largemouth bass fishing is improving in most waters. Good fishing is reported from Lakes Saltonstall, Zoar and Lillinonah, Candlewood, Highland, Quonnipaug, Gardner, Pickerel, Pattaconk, Wyassup, Congamond, Rogers, Crystal Bashan, East Twin and Oxoboxo Lakes, Beach, Hatch, and Lower Moodus, North Farms and Taftville Reservoirs.
• Smallmouths are hitting at Lillinonah and Candlewood Lakes.
• Striped Bass are now in the river from Haddam to north of Hartford. Mostly school size (16-25") fish with some adults up to 42" reported.
• Out in the salt, striper fishing is good in the Pawcatuck River, Mystic River, Thames River, at Millstone Point, Niantic River, and the lower Connecticut River Fish are also being caught t in New Haven Harbor, the Devon power plant Bridgeport Harbor, Saugatuck River, Penfield Reef, the Norwalk Islands, and Stamford and Greenwich Point.
• Winter flounder angling is just fair at best. Flounder spots worth trying include Bluff Point State Park, Pine Island area at the mouth of the Thames River, Niantic Bay and Jordan Cove.
• The first bluefish of the season put in an appearance off Greenwich Point on Wednesday.