Yes, it's off limits till opening day, unlike the upper part of the mill river, towards Sleeping Giant State Park (catch and release this time of year).The spot shown is one of a few places where their trucks can pull up and park with easy access to river. PM me if you want specifics, I don't want the bucket brigade to wreck havoc before April 19th. Scouted the area behind the business on Skiff St. the deep pools are holding fish and the water level is great with good flow.
Thanks DEEP / trout mngmnt, the work you guys put in combined with great conditions will make lots of kids happy on opening day.
The TMA is virtually out of recently stocked trout in amazingly short time. Can you dump another load ASAP. Would love to catch the poachers; love to. We wait all winter(serious Cabin Fever) with heavy ice ,etc. AND THESE SOB's clean us out licketey split. Bad annual stuff. Bad
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#1569577 - 04/04/1403:40 PM
Re: PLEASE Restock Mill River in Hamden Soon
[Re: Wags]
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I know I saw DEP stocking my local today so I waited until they left............then drove over and looked and I didn't see a one......couldn't believe me darn eye how fast them buggers swum frwee!
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#1569781 - 04/06/1408:24 AM
Re: PLEASE Restock Mill River in Hamden Soon
[Re: Wags]
gabe
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The rate at which poachers clean out the mill before opening day is scary, I have seen the big pool in the park loaded one year with 4-5 breeders swimming in it come back on Friday and there gone. I have called the DEP on a couple of guys once sitting there with worms and a paper bag just loading up weeks before opening day. Just sucks.
Hi Folks, I fish the Mill in Hamden quite ALOT and haven't seen any poachers during daylight hours, alot of fishing folks are watching for these poachers. Upper river used to get hit at night, I'd leave at supper time and come back early am and see beer bottles and chip bags with old line tossed aside knowing someone was there in the pm. But I haven't seen an evidence that is happening in recent years in the upper Mill, the dam pond near the mountain face is another past poacher spot. The upper Mill hadn't gotten stocked in two years because of the mafia blocks blocking the access road from the bridge being out. The fish that were already there washed down from the golf course and beyond. This year the Mill in Hamden was only stocked once in early April due to icy weather, trucks couldn't negotiate the icy access road. No stocking occurred a few days before opening day like years past for some unknown reason, I fished the CnR Friday pm before O.D. and no fish were caught. If it were stocked I'd be counting tens of dozens of fish. Because I caught nothing the day before O.D. I'm sure there were hundreds of disappointed folks and this was proven the next few days with complaints and grumblings about the lack of numbers and skunkings from an area that was richly stocked. An unfounded rumor was going around that Gov. Malloy and Mayor of New Haven had a joint TV photo shoot in Hamden with the 2 local school system kids stocking Lake Wintergreen with trout rumored to be originally destined for the Mill River TMA. They needed trout for the TV cameras so fish allotments were taken from the Mill TMA and diverted to Wintergreen. Its a wild rumor and I have no facts to support that this happened but its been the talk of several fisherman I spoke with. These areas could be quite possibly stocked on different days as far as I know. I have no problem with the kids stocking fish as long as it is done humanely and other areas don't get unexpectedly short changed. Usually the Mill and Wharton Brook get re-stocked together as this is what happened in years past but this could have changed. I haven't heard from anyone who fished Wharton to see if it was good or bad. I limited out both sat in 3/4 of an hour, and Sunday in about an hour and a half but many fish were below legal size, I got a tiny salmon as well. I think after the next restocking in about 2 weeks folks will be alot happier since the kids will be back at school and the streams will quiet down since many folks had this week off from work. I am looking forward to catching more fish!!! Wags
More fish or for some of us, some damn fish would be nice. Have seen no fish rising from Opening Day to today. Tells me not many are there. Why? Very disappointing for this 74 year old. Thanks for posting this above, Wags.
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the deep pools are holding fish and the water level is great with good flow.
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