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Connecticut => Ice Fishing Connecticut => Topic started by: PikeKing23 on Mar 15, 2019, 09:06 AM
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Just found this report and thought it was very informative, interesting, and even quite eye-opening. I found it to be a testament to how fragile this fishery is in CT based on how a bad of an effect a year class or discontinued stocking has on CT lakes. I feel it is also a testament to all the hard work and investigation/experimentation into more cost effective and efficient ways to modify our stocking program to produce a higher survival rate from egg to adult. A little bit of a long read, but worth it if you pike fish in CT. Enjoy!
https://www.ct.gov/deep/lib/deep/fishing/performance_reports/northern_pike_2016.pdf
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Pretty informative but the picture in figure 2 on the right ( juvenile pike) is a grass pickerel. You would think the fishery biologists would catch that before printing it.
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It does look like a pickerel, even small pike have some red or brown in the fins, that looks very green.
Very informative article, I live in Bristol but grew up in Burlington, drive through the town quite often. I saw the equipment being used to dredge that pond parked on George Washington trpk, thought it was to dig out the trout ponds a few years back. They forgot to mention the predation by bald eagles and ospreys up there too. I do like how it scientifically graphed why I caught absolutely nothing while I ice fished as a student up at UConn at MHR, 2006 and 2007. Nice post.
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Yes, Pike Fishing in CT is very limited and where you can fish them. To bad they don't stock more, only about (2500) as they are a great fish to catch through the ice especially.