Fishing
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A popular baitfish, fathead minnows can be found at low abundance almost anywhere in Connecticut.
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Our largest minnow species, the fallfish, is misidentified by many as trout or "dace".
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Make a home aquarium with the beautiful native and introduced freshwater fishes of Connecticut!
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Although central mudminnows look superficially like minnows or killifish, they are actually more closely related to pickerel and pike.
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Their abundance makes them very important forage fish for many marine predators such as striped bass, fluke and seabirds.
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How to Observe and Appreciate Fishes
Learn about all the ways you can watch Connecticut's many freshwater fishes!
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Relatively small, silvery fishes with a very slender, cylindrical shape.
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Fish with CARE - Connecticut Aquatic Resources Education
Come fish with CARE - The Connecticut Aquatic Resources Education program! Have fun learning all about fish, fishing and the environment!
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Atlantic salmon were extirpated from the Connecticut River and, despite extensive restoration efforts, self-sustaining runs do not occur.
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The banded sunfish is listed as a Connecticut State Threatened Species. Their small size makes them vulnerable to predation by bass and other large gamefish, so they thrive only in protected, backwater areas.
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Catch one of every fish in this fishing challenge just for Youth Fishing Passport holders!
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Blueback herring and alewives are so similar that the color of the gut lining (peritoneum) is the only sure way to tell them apart.
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Ninespine stickleback males build little tunnel-shaped nests out of bits of vegetation.
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Mudminnows are a small family of the Northern Hemisphere that look similar to killifish and minnows, but are actually more closely related to pike.
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Adorned with an armament of long, sharp spines, white perch are difficult for both anglers and predators to handle.