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Bonus fishing gets you hooked Ponds in Union, Coventry among those stocked by DEEP
Small Business Saturday discoveries The Saturday after Thanksgiving is now considered Small Business Saturday, a day to support small businesses in local communities. Here shoppers visit the Scandinavian Gift Shop in the Broad Brook section of East Windsor. For more pictures from Small Business Saturday, see Pages 14 and 15.
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HARTFORD — North Central Connecticut resident’s have two nearby opportunities to hook in to a new “bonus fishery” by the CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Union’s Bigelow Pond and nearby Coventry Lake were among five waterbodies tapped for the Nov. 23 “surprise” deposit of nearly 500 lake trout throughout the state. The other newly stocked areas are Winchester Lake, Tyler Lake, and Squantz Pond. The DEEP announced the surprise “bonus fishery,” recently stocking close to 500 Lake Trout in these select waters. Averaging between 24-36 inches in length, and weighing between 5-7 pounds, these fish are ready to catch. There is no expectation that these fish will holdover for an extended period of time (years) or that they will reproduce. The intent in stocking them. DEEP said, is strictly to provide Connecticut anglers with a specialty fishery, enhancing late season and winter fishing opportunities. The fish come from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
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