Freshwater

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• Freshwater Fishing

  Find all the resources you need to get out and enjoy freshwater fishing in Connecticut!

• Freshwater Record Fish Photos

  View Connecticut's freshwater record fish with pictures!

• Fishing Access for Persons with Disabilities

  Find fishing areas with access for persons with disabilities.

• Herring Closure

  Emergency Fishery Closure is in effect for Alewife and Blueback Herring. Read on for more information.

• Community Fishing Waters

  Community fishing waters are lakes and ponds stocked with trout and channel catfish near urban communities.

• Brook Trout

  Brook trout prefer small, cold streams with gravel or cobble bottoms and adequate cover.

• Mimic Shiner

  Looking a lot like other shiners gave the mimic shiner its name.

• Spottail Shiner

  Typically the most abundant fish species in larger rivers, the spottail shiner is a very important forage fish.

• American Brook Lamprey

  Learn more about this endangered, maybe native, and definitely not parasitic fish!

• Blueback Herring

  Blueback herring and alewives are so similar that the color of the gut lining (peritoneum) is the only sure way to tell them apart.

• Inland Silverside

  Also known as “tidewater” silverside. They are less common than and very difficult to distinguish from the Atlantic silverside without magnification.

• American Shad

  In 2003, the American shad was designated Connecticut’s “State Fish.”

• Killifishes

  Both marine and freshwater killifishes are distributed throughout Central and Eastern North America from southern Canada to the Yucatan, including Cuba and Bermuda.

• Sheepshead Minnow

  The sheepshead minnow is a standard for use in many laboratory toxicity and genetics studies.

• Pupfishes

  The pupfishes and killifishes are very similar and were once included in the same family.