One thing I love about fishing the CT River is the variety of fish that might be caught from striped bass to carp. I spent an afternoon out on the river targeting channel catfish using some stinky week old cocktail shrimp. Unfortunately even the catfish did not want them so I switched to good ole fashioned crawlers and wound up with a smallmouth bass, a yellow perch and a white perch. Normally if a catch is legal to keep, I will keep it for the table as I find catch and release a cruel practice. Hook a fish, play it to exhaustion, pull it from the water at which point its gills instantly begin incurring irreparable damage and then put it back in the water where biologists say a figure in the neighborhood of 70% of these fish will not even survive (I will be writing more about this at some point later) . The fish got lucky today in that they were barely hooked and I did not feel like filleting panfish. Even though I didn’t catch any catfish it was still great to be out on the river doing one of the things I love the most.
A Day Fishing on the CT River
About the Author: Jay
Jay is an outdoor enthusiast with a deep love for nature that is the core of his ethical hunting and fishing practices. For work, he is in the IT field and aims to bring this experience to outdoor writing in the form of tutorials and reviews of outdoor related applications and tech gadgetry.