You are all racist most of your sport fish aren't native and where stocked what makes trout and small mouth more of a fish. Candlewood is man made and Obama has granted amnesty to all illegals.
Would love to know the really story of how long that fish has been in the lake.
There seems to be a fair amount of interest in catching land-locked stripers and hybrids from a good sized lake. The closest spot that I know of is Lake Wallenpaupak in the Poconos and second choice would be Lake Hopatcong in NJ. I had a camp on the Delaware River for years and we fished Lake Wallenpaupak a lot. I have caught hybrids and regular stripers at night fishing down by the dam. I have also caught lots of smallies, some huge brown trout, my personal best non-Lake Erie walleye at 32 inches, and it is loaded with jumbo yellows and crappie. It is a bit larger than Candlewood at 5,700 surface acres and is a hydro impoundment. It has the same exact shoreline structure of glaciated boulders, gravel and some shale ledge formations and is the closest lake in size and in fisheries content to Candlewood that I know of in the Northeast. You can reach the lake via Rt 84 and from Danbury to the lake is about a bit over 2 hours of easy highway. There is a tackle store down by the dam in Hawley, Pa. and they carry live herring just like Candlewood Bait & Tackle and the Valley Angler. The lake has multiple launching sites. I have used two, one big state launch at the dam and one mid lake at a marina. Either will accomodate boaters 24/7 and fishing all night is no problem. Lake Wallenpaupak has about 50 bass tournies a year so I am sure others from our site have fished it besides me.
Rue Roe, that looks like the one I released a couple of years ago, only then it was about 24 lbs. I was startled that it was in Candlewood but didn't have the heart to kill it.
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