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.