Water is drained out of the ground aquifers north of the Mill in late Spring till Mid Fall for the increased water usage from Cheshire/Northern Hamden residences, also possibly for use at Qunnipiac U and for the town Golf course which I was told sucks water out of the river to keep the greens green but I'm not positive that's true cause I haven't seen with my own eyes. Water Company can answer if thats the case but low water is not an issue in the Winter/early Spring months and thats when CnR fishing is really wonderful there. By the time the water is starting to be sucked out by humans or from drought, most of the fish are gone from that river from fisherman that catch the fish or predatory birds that find the low water easy pickings. I always wanted the Mill to be strictly CnR for much of the stretch but that would kill fish from them being there over the Summer in low water that would normally feed families in the Spring.
Still alot of CnR fisherman would enjoy a restocking of that river now or very early 2014. Wags