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Fishing

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  • Fishing Tournaments

    Fishing Tournament Information

  • Angler's Guide Photo Contest

    Learn how to enter your photo to be featured on the annual CT Fishing Guide cover!

  • Directions to Wolfe Park, Monroe

    Directions to Great Hollow Pond in Wolfe Park, Monroe

  • How Much Does Your Fish Weigh?

    Figure out the weight of your fish without a scale! A simple formula can estimate how much your fish weighs based on length and girth.

  • Trout and Salmon Stamp

    Learn about Connecticut's Trout and Salmon Stamp, ensuring a sustainable future for our valuable trout and salmon fishery resources.

  • Take a Friend Fishing

    Take a friend fishing to hook great prizes during the 2020 fishing season!

  • Tiger Trout

    Learn about tiger trout - an exciting hybrid fish that is returning to Connecticut waters in 2020!

  • Take a Friend Fishing - Official Rules

    Official rules for Connecticut's Take a Friend Fishing Contest.

  • Fishing Regulations

    Official regulations for inland and marine recreational fishing in the State of Connecticut.

  • Sculpins

    Sculpins have a flattened head, large frog-like mouth and eyes, a scaleless body, and large fan-shaped pectoral fins.

  • American Soles

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

  • 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.

  • Bluegill

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

  • Rock Bass

    Rock bass have relatively large mouths, so are commonly caught by anglers seeking larger gamefish.

  • Mullets

    Mullets are torpedo-shaped fishes with horizontal mouths.