I hope everything is well. FYI: A news release will be coming out next week with more information, but we’re letting folks know now that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) had reached out to the Connecticut Fisheries Division to see if we would want to make 490 Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) available to our anglers as a bonus fishery this fall. These Fish are from USFWS Berkshire National Fish Hatchery (New Marlborough, MA) where Lake Trout are raised for restoration efforts in the Lower Great Lakes. We said “yes” and so we did a one-time stocking of 490 Lake Trout this week. These fish average about 5.3 lbs per fish, and were stocked into Winchester Lake, Coventry Lake, Tyler Lake, Squantz Pond, and Bigelow Pond. These stockings are intended to provide a short-term specialty fishery and there’s no expectation that these fish will holdover for an extended period of time (years) or that they will reproduce.
The daily limit is five fish per day, BUT to help spread the catch out among as many people as possible, please only take the fish one will immediately use.
If you go out to fish for a Lake Trout in CT, we want to hear how your fishing is going, both successful and skunked. Please fill out this very short form https://arcg.is/CzOHr after each fishing trip. We will not share your information with anyone; it will help us to evaluate this bonus fishery. Please remember we need to hear about each fishing trip, no matter the duration or success! From all of the completed surveys, we will randomly pick five folks to receive a free copy of the “Pictorial Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of CT” or “A Fisheries Guide to the Lakes and Ponds of CT”- you choose!
More information will be out next week. Have a good weekend!
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