Fishing

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• Warmwater Fisheries Action Plan

  Connecticut's Warmwater Fisheries Action Plan seeks to improve recreational fishing opportunities for warm- and coolwater fishes.

• Atlantic Silverside

  Their abundance makes them very important forage fish for many marine predators such as striped bass, fluke and seabirds.

• American Soles

  A small family limited to marine waters of the Western Hemisphere.

• Bluegill

  Bluegills often inhabit shallow areas and are very easy to catch on a variety of small lures or baits (especially worms).

• Black Crappie

  Also called “calico bass,” crappie grow quickly and are a popular food and sport 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.

• Bluntnose Minnow

  It is unclear how or when bluntnose minnows arrived in Connecticut.

• Blacknose Dace

  Blacknose dace are a native minnow that prefer the pools and rocky riffles of small headwater streams.

• Bowfin

  Often confused with the snakehead, the bowfin is an introduced fish that has grown rapidly in abundance since 2003.

• Blackspotted Stickleback

  Rarity and difficulty with identification cause the blackspotted stickleback’s whereabouts in Connecticut to be unclear.

• Black Bullhead

  Black bullheads are very difficult to distinguish from brown bullheads. It is unclear whether the few individuals reported in Connecticut represent self-sustaining populations.

• Bowfins

  This primitive family has a diverse fossil record, but only one species still exists.

• Channel Catfish

  The channel catfish is the state’s largest catfish species.

• Brown Trout

  Brown trout can grow to large sizes and are generally harder to catch than brook or rainbow trout.

• Brook Trout

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