First time for me at Connetquot River State Park. This is a mile walk to the centuries old Fish Hatchery still in use.
Refer to prior post for more info. on Connetquot aka Great River, Islip, NY.
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There are two ways to get to the Hatchery. This old blacktop road or through the woods on the yellow trail. I took the road there and the trail back.
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This was a 3,400 + acre Sportsmen preserve before becoming a State Park. The river flows through the middle of it. The woods on this side of the river have only regrown since a fire came through in the early 1970's.
Fish Hatchery just up ahead.
This is the river flowing towards me and the Hatchery behind me. River canal make a 90% turn, then runs under a road flowing into long rectangular holding areas for the fish. The fish they raise are Brook, Brown and Rainbow Trout.
Check out google map for better all around look. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7638119,-73.1533742,413m/data=!3m1!1e3
I ran into the caretaker of the place, Norman. He told me one pool had 8,000 trout in it. After BS-ing for awhile I took a stroll around.
The far pool had the biggest trout I ever seen. Some over two foot. 0.61 meters long. But then again I'm not a fisherman, so I don't know how big they get.
Check these fish out. Reflection makes for bad pictures. Should have taken a video.
These guys were monsters.
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