Angler hauls in rare mutant fish from Connecticut River
Jimmy Ayala was about to pack it in after a day of frustrating carp fishing on the Connecticut River when he hooked a fish. And not just any fish. The 25-pound, eight-ounce bottom feeder he pulled from the river on May 22 in East Haddam turned out to be a rare combination of two genetic mutations — a mirror carp and a fantail carp. Mike Beauchene, the state’s supervising fisheries biologist, ...