Westport Fishermen, Start Your Reels! CT DEEP Stocked Rivers & Ponds With Trout & Salmon

By Wendy Ann Mitchell (Patch Staff)

The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) announced Friday that they have begun stocking Connecticut rivers and ponds with Atlantic Salmon.

This week DEEP is began stocking 500 Atlantic salmon into the following ponds and rivers:

• Mount Tom Pond, Washington - 100 fish
• Upper Naugatuck River, Torrington/New Hartford Areas- 100 fish
• Lower Naugatuck River, Shelton, Oxford, Naugatuck, etc.- 50 fish
• Crystal Lake, Middletown - 125 fish
• Beach Pond, Voluntown- 125 fish

Shetucket River is not being stocked with salmon this week due to low flows.

The group of Atlantic salmon being released for fishing range in weight from 2-5 pounds. In early October, approximately 400 additional fish in the same size range will be available for stocking. In November, the DEEP expects several hundred additional salmon from the Kensington Hatchery will be available for stocking in November. The fish will range in weight from 3 to 14 pounds each.

Through mid-October, the DEEP is releasing 30,000 trophy and adult-sized trout into selected waters throughout the state. Approximately 14,000 are trophy size brown trout which are all more than 12 inches long. The remaining 16,000 adults are standard size which are 9-10 inch rainbow trout.

Rivers and streams stocked this week include:

• The Housatonic River, Danbury, Brookfield, New Milford - 1,000 brown trout
• Bull’s Bridge, Kent- 500 brown trout

Lakes and ponds stocked this week in Western CT:

• Squantz Pond, New Fairfield - 500 brown trout
• West Side Pond, Goshen- 150 brown trout
• Mohawk Pond, Cornwall - 150 brown trout
• Tyler Pond, Goshen- 250 brown trout

Lakes and ponds stocked this week in Eastern CT:

• Crystal Lake, Middletown - 1,000 brown trout
• Beach Pond, Voluntown -900 brown trout

For more information about fishing in Connecticut, click here.

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