Shetucket Rivers News Today

There's decent holdover striper fishing lately, but most anglers are enjoying good fishing for bass, crappie and stocked rainbow and brown trout in the ponds and rivers.

Bottom fishing yields sea bass, scup and ling cod, holdover stripers are chewing in the rivers, and freshwater anglers catch trout, salmon, bass and perch.

Big stripers chase bunker in the harbors and river mouths and the western Sound has big bass feeding on hickory shad, meanwhile, tautog fishing has transitioned to deeper water.

The state Department of Public Health is issuing a warning about eating fish found in 11 bodies of water in the state because of potential health hazards. The...

The state Department of Public Health is issuing a warning about eating fish found in 11 bodies of water in the state because of potential health hazards. The...

Striped bass gorge on peanut bunker around river mouths, and blackfishing is good in the L.I. Sound with jumbo scup in the mix.

Schoolie and slot stripers hit the rivers, bottom fishing for scup and sea bass brings limits, and tautog fishing is strong around deep structure.

Schoolie bass and bluefish blitz in the western Sound, while bottom fishing yields a healthy mix of big porgies, blackfish, sea bass and cod.

Tog fishing is holding steady with fish to 10 pounds as we head into Thanksgiving weekend.

Strong tog fishing on most trips and big bass in western Long Island Sound.