Starting Jan. 1, anglers in Connecticut can keep brook trout only 9 inches or longer, while the number of locations where absolutely no brook trout harvest will be allowed is increasing from 20 to 22.

Connecticut is instituting a new minimum size limit on brook trout in an effort to protect the state's population of wild fish. Starting Jan. 1, 2026, anglers statewide only will be allowed to keep or ...

When Connecticut’s trout-fishing season opens at 6 a.m. Saturday, anglers will be casting their lines for some of the more than 315,000 rainbow, brown and brook trout that have already been stocked in ...

Connecticut’s first wild trout management plan aims to conserve and expand habitat for brook and brown trout and boost opportunities for anglers. The recently released 10-year plan (bit.ly/3tVfDhS) ...

Plainfield — The trout shimmered and squirmed, slapping and squishing past one another as they left their tanks, one sputtering 50-pound net-full at a time, as staff from the Quinebaug Valley State ...

Opening day of the trout fishing season is Saturday, and Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has the state’s rivers, streams, lakes and ponds stocked and ready. Saturday is ...

Connecticut’s Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) today announced that its 2014 autumn trout stockings have begun. From now through mid October, DEEP is releasing 30,000 trophy and ...

Thousands will head out with their rods and reels on Saturday for the start of the trout fishing season in Connecticut. Hopefully anglers will have some luck; the state Department of Energy and ...