I spend many hours fishing the Ct River and have won several tournaments on it. We were prefishing a tournament last fall and I hooked what I thought was a striper. It ended up being a Largemouth that went 6.80 pounds on a Berkley Scale!!! I have pics on my cell phone that I'll try to post. What a fish 3 days too early for the tourny - we still won though. I've also caught several smallies over 5#'s and hooked one that was well over 6 maybe pushing 7. River has a huge forage bass and some big fish if you know where to look for them