Fishing

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  • Blackspotted Stickleback

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

  • 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.

  • Brown Bullhead

    The brown bullhead is Connecticut’s most widely distributed and only native catfish species. They are good to eat, but are typically underutilized by anglers.

  • Bridle Shiner

    This easily overlooked minnow, the bridle shiner, is apparently declining throughout much of its range.

  • Channel Catfish

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

  • Common Carp

    Learn all about common carp, one of Connecticut's biggest and hardest fighting fish!

  • Catfishes and Bullheads

    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.”

  • Chain Pickerel

    The chain pickerel is Connecticut’s largest native freshwater predatory fish. Before the introduction of bass, it was the top predator in the state’s lakes and ponds.

  • Burbot

    The burbot is the only completely freshwater member of the cod family. Little is known of its life history in Connecticut.

  • Central Mudminnow

    Although central mudminnows look superficially like minnows or killifish, they are actually more closely related to pickerel and pike.

  • Codfishes

    Codfishes are characterized by having a single barbel on the middle of the chin.

  • Cutlip Minnow

    Cutlip minnows are known to sometimes knock out and eat the eyes of other fishes.

  • Creek Chubsucker

    Creek chubsucker populations have reportedly declined in streams that are subject to siltation.

  • Common Shiner

    With no obvious and distinctive characteristics, the common shiner is one of the most difficult fish to identify.