Big largemouth are not that difficult to catch. regardless of where you are. The problem is that there's just not too many of them in CT. There's plenty of big fish around, I've seen a few at Mashapaug that went over 10 without a question. If you're talking strictly artificial thats a different story, but simple things like bass assassins make it very do-able. A big shiner will ALWAYS entice a big bass into sucking it down.