I'm looking at places that don't have much pickerel and have more perch and sunnies.

Besseck Lake and Lake Winnemaug are places I can picture, unless they don't have the right structure.

Yes I agree with you 100% fishingbum, other than the possibility of not enough deep water areas? Plus every once and a while when the lake turns that funny green color might pose a threat?

But now there is also a harsh reality to factor in that nobody wants to hear...
The state would then have a "legitimate" excuse to RAISE the license fee(s) for the stocking costs. A vicious cycle that never seems to end. Perhaps converting the salmon hatchery in Kensington to a walleye hatchery?
I've been to the NY state walleye hatchery in Constantia,NY many times & it is very impressive how simple the operation appears to be. I recommend if anybody is going through that part of NY to stop in an take a tour of the hatchery, no admission.

Now on that note, pay a visit to the salmon hatchery in Altmar,NY and see how well it works.
The salmon project in CT. doesn't seem to be working all that well now does it.

Just my two cents.
John.

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 oppertunity 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.
Sorry Mike ; not to hijack the thread , but I would also like to see more walleye stockings in ct. lakes even more so than salmon.

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.