Originally Posted By: joe sabas the fishin magician
John if I'm not mistaken the salmon population in Ct. is only a way to get rid of the Brood stock and provide an opportunity to catch a salmon in local waters , unlike the stocking in N.Y. where the fish make it out to the big lake and return to spawn .
This would be awesome if they would stock fingerlings and allow thm to reach the sound and return to the rivers from where they came.


Joe, the point I'm trying to make here is this. The state has been stocking salmon fingerlings in CT rivers for a very long time and it is simply not working.(I don't mean the broodstock program either)
Go to the Salmon river on RTE 16 to the "Firemans Park" I think it's called (Been a long time since I've been there)toss out a worm or crawler see what you catch, about a 6-8 inch salmon all day. Basically all they're doing is feeding all the predator fish all the way to L.I.Sound.

Why not just convert the hatchery to walleye? All the equipment is there right? But wait, that would be too easy. Plus I'm sure that it is less costly as well.
Which reminds me, now that we HAVE TO PAY to fish the saltwater, how much has it IMPROVED? For example you get to keep 1 winter flounder, be lucky to catch 1 winter flounder never mind a keeper.(Oh that's right regulations are to change AFTER the anglers' guide is published) Same old every year.
I'll just stop here, for now...

John.


Edited by JLMOS (02/29/12 12:58 AM)
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I should've been here yesterday?
I was...
And I didn't catch anything then either!!!

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