Connecticut’s Trout Parks
Looking for a place to fish on Opening Day? Why not give one of Connecticut’s 12 Trout Parks a try?
Hot Spots
Smithtown Bay and Reef
Tucked between the LIPA Stacks and Cranes Neck in Long Island Sound, Smithtown Bay comes to life once the sand eels settle into the bay and head for the shoals for their annual spring spawn.
Rattlesnake
40 20.525 N / 73 54.141 Anglers all across the Garden State have been getting snake bit by one northern…
Execution Rock
In 1850 a light station was established on a rocky reef off of what is now known as Sands Point in the west end of Long Island Sound.
Tin Can Grounds
40.51.367 / 73.93.700 On January 3, 1944 the Bristle Class destroyer the USS Turner met its fate as a series…
England Banks
Legend has it that the England Banks were named as such by early skiff fishermen who launched their boats from the crashing surf; as they rowed fastidiously to the grounds roughly 2 to 3 miles offshore, the distance to get there seemed like they “were rowing to England.”
Coxes Ledge – Southern Section
With year-round cod action and summertime addition of shark, tuna and billfish, this is a highly-productive section of Southern New England.
Bug Light
For more than 135 years The Long Beach Bar Lighthouse, better known as Bug Light has steered sailors to safety from its location between Orient Harbor and Gardiner’s Bay, welcoming them to the protected waters of Peconic Bay.
Lake Hopatcong
As a kid growing up in the 1980s, no other event was looked upon with such fervor as ice fishing on Lake Hopatcong.
Coxes Ledge – Northern Section
A look at some of the fishy structure contained within the northern confines of Coxes Ledge.
Execution Rock
In 1850 a light station was established on a rocky reef off of what is now known as Sands Point in the west end of Long Island Sound.
Tabletop
There are always a few spots that fall by the wayside as the years pass on, and one of them is the Tabletop.
North Rip, Block Island, RI
Like a big bull’s-eye, Block Island sits smack in the middle of the Northeast’s striped bass and bluefish migration pattern.
Marine Parkway Bridge
Spanning the western complex of Jamaica Bay from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn to Fort Tilden in the Rockaways, the Marine Parkway Bridge, also known as the Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, sets the stage for some fine all around action on a variety of species through the course of the season.
Lake Ashroe
A recent addition in 2017 to the 16,447-acre Stokes State Forest is Lake Ashroe, and the newcomer is delivering, as it had in the past under private ownership, excellent open water angling.
12th Month Stripers
This month’s Hot Spot installment is a little different than the usual ones you’ll see as it doesn’t cover a single local spot to go fish.