Fishing
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Families of Connecticut Freshwater Fishes
Learn the defining characteristics of Connecticut's freshwater fish families!
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Smelt are important forage fish for large pelagic predators such as striped bass in estuaries and brown trout in lakes.
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The sheepshead minnow is a standard for use in many laboratory toxicity and genetics studies.
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Anadromous alewives are important forage fish for large gamefish such as striped bass and bluefish as well as many other animals, including osprey and marine mammals.
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Connecticut’s smallest pike species. They are typically mistaken for small chain pickerel by anglers.
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Catfish and bullheads have eight barbels around the mouth: two off the snout, two off the corners of the mouth, and four under the chin. These long barbels give the impression of whiskers, hence the name “catfishes.”
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The channel catfish is the state’s largest catfish species.
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Warmouths can be distinguished from other sunfishes by feeling for the patch of small teeth on the tongue.
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Apparently during Colonial times, “hogchokers” fed to pigs proved difficult to swallow.
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Striped mullet support important commercial fisheries in Southern states. Smaller fish are sold as bait.
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Four native stickleback species are found predominantly in marine and sometimes fresh waters of Connecticut. The males build and guard nests made out of aquatic vegetation, and they become darker and/or more brightly colored during the spawning season.
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Common Carp Management and Fishing
Learn about fishing for common carp in Connecticut!
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It is unclear how or when bluntnose minnows arrived in Connecticut.
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Bluegills often inhabit shallow areas and are very easy to catch on a variety of small lures or baits (especially worms).
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Mullets are torpedo-shaped fishes with horizontal mouths.