Fishing
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Hybrids are more common in unfished or lightly fished waters, most likely because they are easier to catch than the parent species and are thus removed more quickly from heavily fished waters.
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Also called “calico bass,” crappie grow quickly and are a popular food and sport fish.
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Rarity and difficulty with identification cause the blackspotted stickleback’s whereabouts in Connecticut to be unclear.
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Prefer backwaters and slow-moving areas of larger rivers and streams as well as lakes and ponds. They appear to be more tolerant of brackish water than channel catfish.
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Black bullheads are very difficult to distinguish from brown bullheads. It is unclear whether the few individuals reported in Connecticut represent self-sustaining populations.
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Not yet found in Connecticut, the Rudd has established populations in neighboring states.
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Trophy Trout Areas give you a great chance at catching a larger than average trout, even a trophy
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Learn about the shortnose sturgeon, a state and federally endangered species that call the CT River home.
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Native to China and Siberia, this gigantic freshwater fish has been widely stocked for weed control.
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True to their names, sticklebacks have very sharp spines, which can be locked in an upright position, causing these little fish to be very unpalatable for most predators.
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Perches are distributed throughout temperate fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere. However, all of the many species of diminutive darters are native only to North America.
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Freshwater populations exist as far south as Massachusetts, but none are known in Connecticut.
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In Connecticut, the redbreast sunfish typically outnumbers other sunfish species only in river environments.
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Due to their hard-fighting abilities, smallmouths are considered by many to be superior gamefish to largemouths.