Posts tagged “connetquot river”

More on the Connetquot Matter

Posted on March 26th, 2009

Of interest mainly to people in the NYC Metro: My buddy Stefan wanted to find out more about the Connetquot and forwarded me this email response he got. On Behalf of Ronald F. Foley, Regional Director, LI Region March 25, 2009 Dear Mr.REDACTED : On Behalf of Commissioner Carol Ash, I am writing in response to your e-mail of March 19, 2009 concerning the Connetquot River State Park Preserve Hatchery. Trout in the Connetquot River and hatchery have tested positive for Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis (IPN). We are working closely with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to address the matter. No trout will be hatched or raised in the hatchery this coming season in order to give us time to both develop…

Tagged: brook trout, brown trout, connetquot river, hatchery issues, Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis, rainbow trout

Bad Hatchery Craziness

Posted on March 13th, 2009

This Ken Shultz article came out just before the NY State DEC discovered IPN. The Connetquot represents in one localized microcosm the best and the worst of a hatchery sustained fishery. On the one hand, a stream this close to such high population density could never support pure wild fish with unrestricted access to them. Operating a stream on a pay-to-reserve English beat system with a carefully managed stocking program allows for solitude rather than shoulder to shoulder and the chance to fish larger than normal brown, brook, and rainbow trout. On the other hand, it is not reality. On the one hand, the big sea runs and the cagey eight-pound holdovers with the hooked jaws exist in numbers not seen in normalcy. On…

Tagged: brook trout, brown trout, connetquot river, hatchery issues, Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis, rainbow trout, stocked vs. wild, waiting for striper season

TROUT: A Return to the Connetquot River

Posted on April 30th, 2007

I took a late afternoon trip to the Connetquot River on Long Island yesterday. The rules have changed since they discovered a virus at the hatchery this winter. For one, the use of chest waders and felt-bottomed boots is prohibited. There is limited wading on the river below the hatchery, but only in hip waders. (Very few people can wear hip waders without looking ridiculous, and odds are you are not one of them.) I’ll put up the official new rules in a future post. What else has changed? The days of retarted meat slab fishing (or hero fishing, depending on your perspective) appear–at least for the time being–to be over. The park is still stocking the river, but you can no longer approach…

Tagged: connetquot river, Fly Fishing, trout