"Sewer Salar"

[AaronJasper]

Torrey and I took a drive over to the Campville section of the Naugatuck and here is what we found!

[alanb_ct]

That's a pretty fish, I like the massive kyped jaw on the male.

[Joe-G]

Me and a buddy were up there friday afternoon, we fished during a heavy squall of snow pellets and intermittent sunshine after hooking and loosing three of those 'sewer cows'.
They are a bit more fun to catch in March after they've wintered over and moved around some.

[AaronJasper]

Its really funny seeing those HUGE fish swimming around in pools/riffles where I have caught trout. Its weird... but fun.

[bassrag]

Fished the lower Naugy on Sunday and hooked and lost a good salmon-saw some huge fish. What a treat to be catching fish in a river I remember as a youngster that would flow colors(red,white,green ,pink) depending on what chemical was being dumped that day.

[FK]

The Naugy was horrible when I was growing up in Middlebury, CT. We tried to hold our breath when driving through Naugatuck, the chemical plant had 4ft dia. pipes pouring incredibly smelly liquid directly into the river. Torrington was not as bad however, many manuf. plants dumped all kinds of chemical at will.

I never thought it possible we would see the river recover as it has today.

Regards,
FK

[Fascist Killer]

If only such efforts were put into many other rivers in the Northeast

[Brookie]

Ha - Torrey and I were recently discussing the Naugy salmon and size of some of the brutes they put in. I guess he had to go find out for himself! ;D

For me, they don't have much magic. Yeah, they're big, and sure sometimes they put up a good fight, but I can't get too excited about a fish that's been raised in a tank and has only been swimming around in a natural environment for only a month or so.

Call me crazy.

[AaronJasper]

I don't know... its great for where it is. Torrey lives like 10 minutes away from there. Its like a train wreck... you have to go look at it! ... and catch a couple while you are at it

I wouldn't travel too far to catch them though in my opinion... but its only an opinion!
Most of them looked very good though, not like some of the ones I caught a few years back. Their fins looked like fingers!

[alanb_ct]

I agree with Aaron. I'm not sure I would make a special trip for the salmon, but hey it's on the way to the Hous. In fact, I don't think many folks on this forum could resist to make a cast if they saw one. Just for fun, just for a picture. I only caught two in my life, and the second one from the Shetucket fought really well. It was an 8lb female and looked pretty with fairly clean fins. I think it's what you make of it.

By the way, if you want to read about the Naugy's recovery, read George Black's book "The Trout Pool Paradox: The American Lives of Three Rivers," it's a great read.