[JFigliuolo]

Snipped from CT DEP release...


The alewife run is going strong right now with sightings in many Connecticut tributaries. The fish counter at Mary Steube (Mill Brook, Old Lyme) is posting some good numbers and alewives are moving through the Moulson Pond (Eightmile River, Lyme) in large numbers. I was there on Saturday and saw them spawning below the dam and moving up through the fishway and millrace. Also strong runs on the Salmon and Moodus rivers and fish reported on the Coginchaug and Keeney Cove. Despite lack of reports from some other tributaries, it seems clear that they have penetrated throughout their typical range (more-or-less to the CT/MA line). Temperatures in the tributaries have ranged from 50 to 60 degrees (10 – 15.7 C) and spawning has begun. It is too early to make conclusions, but at this point it seems like a better run than last year’s. Of course, with low water and clear water, it is easier to see them, too.