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 ...

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.

David Grazynski is part of a local advocacy project restoring a section of the Mill River, the course of which was changed during the construction of the Merritt Parkway. Credit: Eddy Martinez / ...

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 ...

Dave Grazynski stopped by a fishing spot in Fairfield near the Merritt Parkway in late July. Grazynski likes to go fly fishing, a technique using an artificial fly attached to a lightweight line. He ...