Good season winding down

Yes, it's fed by a narrow brook. The water is kept moving with the brook pouring into the pond, plus the small waterfall, and there are high-pressure sprinklers out in the middle in a couple of places.... I hooked a big one, mid-season, not even aware yet of the fact that the State stocks the pond. Biggest freshwater fish I ever caught. But THAT "was the one that got away." I was fishing from the end of a pier which extendes way out to the middle--- but the water is actually shallower there. Anyhow, it was a channel cat, but he snapped my line.

To my "life-list," I can add: an albino cat in the Connecticut River in Massachusetts, bluefish from Delaware Bay, and rock bass and smallmouth bass at a resevoir in Connecticut just south of the Massachusetts line, way out where MA and CT and NY almost come together. VERY low water level. I mean, extreme. All the fish that day got thrown back. Too small. Have caught chain pickerel in the past, over in the Berkshires. I can't really take pictures in order to properly start a Lifelist here, because I have no cellphone nor a camera. I don't even WANT a cellphone! Anyhow, the fun we have is the main thing. My wife likes to go out on the crowded party boats in Long Island Sound. She came back last time with bluefish and a black sea bass. Last year, late in the season, she caught a big pile of porgies. Good eating! And thanks for your response.  :)

Ya, I've caught basically nothing out of that river. Years and years ago, I was with a friend in his rowboat, and caught an albino cat. I let him go. Would you believe it? After all the years of supposedly cleaning up all the waterways, anywhere and everywhere--- after all those years of pollution, decades ago--- the brochure I was given when I bought my license says NOT to eat ANYTHING you catch out of the Connecticut River. Perhaps much further up, it would be safe to do so...... Last year and the year before that, I fished Tully Lake in Worcester County a lot, up by the NH border, in a Massachusetts State Park there. But all I caught were panfish, and I was getting tired of that. In Tully Lake, I caught ONE largemouth bass, but his size was borderline, so I threw him back. You're correct: I will happily pay the non-resident fee  to fish that honey-hole in Connecticut again.

In Crystal Lake (Ellington, CT) the State stocks landlocked salmon, but I suppose you need a boat to get out to them. I can fish from shore there in Enfield, and I hope to get out there early enough in 2015 to get some of the early trout that are stocked. If they do what they did in the past, they will stock the ADULT channel cats in there, soon afterward. It's damn nice of the State to let us know that it is specifically ADULTS which get put into that pond. Elsewhere, they stock juveniles.