Interesting thread. This has been a good read. The very first place I got a fish through the ice about 35 years ago was there in part to Joe and Pete at Dees bait and tackle. Used to fish the heck out of the place, when we had ice. I have eaten fish in the past out of lilly, zoar, housatonic and lower. If pcb is really a concern, then it wouldn’t make sense to stock walleyes there? Then again I never ate a lot, and haven’t consumed a fish from there in like 20 years or so.
On the other hand, as previously mentioned, there are so many stunted perch it seems like the walleyes would thrive there and in lilly.
Too bad the state couldn’t raise walleye like they do trout. Seems like trout just die off in 90 percent of CT lakes, if they don’t get caught or eaten by predators (cormorants osprey etc) before warm water kills them off in Summer.
Seems like if a walleye could grow/reach 13” or so it would be able to grow much larger and be a sustainable fish to catch for 5-7 years or more? You guys would know better then I.
