Fly Fishing for Connecticut's ATLANTIC SALMON

[@ctfishing4067]

Glad you’re back. Love the videos, they always give me inspiration to get out there and fish.

[@stevenschoppmann4946]

Welcome back! Great video catching that salmon. Looking forward to more content.

[@mattmeyer935]

So happy to see a CT angler video! It truly made my day man! Keep up the good work, you’re such a genuine dude it’s always so nice to watch your videos!

[@BarnsandBrewsRod-Cast]

Awesome man! We bass fish in CT on our channel! Keep the videos coming!

[@woodsspy327]

Great surprise to see another one of your videos. Have missed your trout fishing excursions. Nice catch on the Atlantic Salmon. Thank you for sharing and have a Happy Holidays

[@frankmonroe8320]

Beautiful! Love seeing salmon. Thanks

[@andrewouimette5389]

Welcome back, thanks for posting!

[@charlienathan3819]

Love that you’re back making videos!

[@hockeystudofficial]

I’m so happy you made another video. I like watching someone who also fishes the same state.

[@WilliamKrause-c4b]

Always love the fishing and your narrative. A real pleasure. Thank you!

[@Sir3Ns]

He's back!!! ❤

[@1guy1girlfishing29]

Nice video. Got one down on the shetucket a few weeks back while Passing through the town. I wasn’t expecting it because it was early.

[@stevecorey57]

Yes! A new video! Thanks!

[@michaelkolanda8712]

Yeah. That law doesn't make much sense to me. Awesome to see some Atlantic's though!! All I get around here (upstate NY ) is landlocked Atlantic's.

[@ArtisticAngler]

Pleasure talking to you man (:

[@tedsouza-fs6kw]

Great Stuff

[@williamboston8702]

From a Yankee in exile, thanks for the great video. So nice to see these fish in home waters. What's the state of health of the river overall? The Naugatuck and the Hoosie were pretty contaminated when I lived there. Can't you get around the added weight rule with a sinking line or sink tip?

[@billmarino4360]

Nice to see you back again. The rivers and streams are very low we desperately need a few good rains to get things back to normal. Have you ever tried fishing for stripers with your fly rod setup? In the fall they will start to stack up in the larger tidal rivers.

[@ConnecticutAngler]

Stripers aren't a fish I've fish I've targeted on the fly yet. I target them only rarely and always on spinning gear, as I'm still just trying to get a feel for good spots and the species behaviors and patterns of movement.

[@wildbrookies]

Hello!! Omg! Glad to see you back on YT and that you’re doing fine. I have to say , I was wondering if you were coming back. But, this was a very special treat this morning. Whatta big beautiful Atlantic salmon you got to the net! The fight they put up was amazing. And how beautiful and silvery. I need to ask you if you don’t mind, what were the materials used to tie that large nymph you hooked that salmon on? Peacock feathers? And was it a tungsten beadhead? And , to finish the day off , that beautiful wild brown trout was an added treat! Thanks for thinking of bringing us along with you and hope to see you again in the near future. Don’t be such a stranger! lol. As always , tightlines !

[@ConnecticutAngler]

The big nymph had a brass head and lots of 030 non-lead wire wraps in the underbody to add extra weight. With a big tungsten bead instead, the underbody wire could probably be skipped (but when using a big hook like that, there's not much reason to worry about thinning out the body). Using sinking line and light streamers is also a good option, which I demonstrated in another of my Atlantic vids. I freestyle when I tie the salmon nymphs, so I don't have some strict recipe. I'm generally just using bright ice dub to make a tapered body, similar to how you might dub a hare's ear. At the bead, I'll wrap some shaggy, polar chenille and add a collar of more ice dub. Sometimes I'll add a few short pieces of tinsel or polar chenille as a tail, or maybe palmer the body with tinsel. I try to experiment with different colors, usually incorporating flashy, metallic-type sheens (thus the ice dub and polar chenille). What you end up with is essentially a giant nymph, though at its size, it can just as easily be used as a streamer to good effect, and sometimes trout or salmon alike might prefer that smaller profile over big, bushy, flowy streamers.

[@HarryPotter-dx3yc]

Seems like you caught a tagged salmon, was there a call number on it? Great video, cheers

[@ConnecticutAngler]

Well, I was mostly looking at the fish’s left side while it was in the net. But I see now, going back and watching the release, that there was a visible tag on the right side near the dorsal. Unfortunately, at the time, I didn’t notice it. He’ll, I didn’t even notice when I was editing the vid.😂

[@tumblewheed5994]

I'd love to go for Atlantics someday! It's been droughtfully dry in W.Mass also! I generally quit fishing during periods like this because I was told it stress's fish out and could be harming them. Any truth to this IYO?

[@kennygreathead6336]

Does CT actually have Atlantic salmon or are they stocked? I know we have very few in Mass, and actually thought only Maine really had any population that was actually from the Atlantic, and not LLS.

[@ConnecticutAngler]

The Atlantics in the Naugatuck River and Shetucket River are all stocked fish. As far as the distinction between "landlocked salmon" and "Atlantic salmon", there's some confusion about that which I think often tends to arise in Maine. Strictly speaking, *any* fish of the species _Salmo salar_ is an "Atlantic salmon", whether it's fresh from the ocean or was born in a hatchery. "Atlantic" is just a part of its common name and isn't intended to indicate whether or not a specific fish has actually travelled to the ocean. When Mainers talk about "landlocked salmon", what they really mean are "landlocked Atlantic salmon", but because they only have one species of salmon in that state, it's rarely necessary to clarify; everyone understands what the abbreviated term means. But the term "landlocked salmon" is really just a general term for _any_ species of salmon in a landlocked environment. For example, Connecticut also has kokanee which are "landlocked salmon" too, but specifically they are landlocked sockeye salmon, _Oncorhynchus nerka_ , an entirely different species of salmon from Atlantics.

[@kennygreathead6336]

@@ConnecticutAnglerthanks for the information. You have great content in your videos. I often use it in Vermont from your videos. 2:21

[@Fishingmybassoff]

fellow connecticuit trout angler how do you find your spots to trout fish at i cant fine any places

[@B.LanglaisCT203]

Water is so shallow everywhere have to hunt out pools

[@paulbugeja5425]

No weight, but you have a bead on that nymph\wet fly!

[@ConnecticutAngler]

Right, the regulation actually just stipulates "Additional weight may not be added to the line." So it's aimed expressly at weight that isn't built into the fly, lure or line itself (sinking fly line wouldn't count as additional weight, of course).