#1629601 - 04/20/1508:50 PM
Re: Big Striper CANDLEWOOD
[Re: JoeyHBCT]
Peconic
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Registered: 04/19/04
Posts: 473
Loc: South Windsor, CT
Really is too bad he didn't keep it so we could have known for sure. I mean even if you weren't going to eat it wouldn't you think DEEP would want to see the fish?
#1629622 - 04/20/1510:37 PM
Re: Big Striper CANDLEWOOD
[Re: JoeyHBCT]
Frank
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Registered: 06/06/01
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Loc: Shelton, CT
Surely it's possible with bucket biologists at work. A 20+lb fish was caught during a bass tourney at Lake Hous a number of years back. There were idiots that threw schoolies up over the dam and they have plenty of forage up top.
The trout would be in trouble if there were a bunch in there. They love trout...down south they use them for striper bait.
i believe the state is responsible for this fish being in cwood. the current MO seems to be stocking fish that cannot perpetuate into habits they can, but arent well equipt to survive, and will die out over time due to the fore mentioned inability to perpetuate.
this is just the first. wait til Wags hits the mill river!
#1629641 - 04/21/1507:10 AM
Re: Big Striper CANDLEWOOD
[Re: JoeyHBCT]
Fuzzytrout
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Registered: 08/24/11
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Loc: Cape Cod!
i took it into photoshop and did my csi thing, that photo is 100% real, not a single pixel is out of place or has been altered since the image was taken.
I'm surprised you cwood guys can't pinpoint the shoreline with that blue shed...
"Don't kill them for ego, don't kill them because they're legal, and don't kill them for someone else." - Doc Muller
Good point on the carp, they make a lot of noise on the surface in the spring while spawning. I don't think stripers could spawn in Candlewood, they usually require a river system so the eggs can remain buoyant and not touch anything like the freshwater sections of a tidal river. The freshwater tidal sections of the Hudson River is the best example of a spawning area in our area.
From what I've been able to ascertain from biologists and from rather extensive reading on the subject, the eggs need to stay free floating, in fresh water for at least 72 hours following the spawn. That requires a degree of turbulence and a pretty good current flow. Candlewood would not be a likely place for it to be successful.
RichZ
Everybody's got to believe something — I believe I'll go fishing.
I was wondering if the fish in question could have been introduced through the water being pumped up from the housy as a fry or juvenile as it's been assumed that's how the Northerns in C-wood have gotten there. Personally, I think it's legit, after all we do have mt. lions all over the place.
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