go-bassn wrote:
how big are these lakes? I've never heard of any of
them.

Twin is, as the name implies, 2 connected lakes. It's in the extrem NW
corner of the sate. East Twin is about 500 acres. Deep and gin clear.
The only lake in CT with a verified Zebra mussel population. Used to be
the anchor of CT's kokanee salmon program. Until someone introduced
alewives into it. The sawbellies out competed the kokanee for plankton
and destroyed that fishery. But they made it a trophy brown trout and
bass lake. West Twin is about 300 acres, but it's really two little
lakes -- round pond and long pond. The vast majority of the good weights
yesterday came from round pond in west twin, although the big fish of
the tourney came from east twin.

Amos is over toward the SE corner, and if memory serves, isn't 200 acres.

There's no better time for big fish in these smaller natural lakes in
the northeast than November. When the weeds start to die off in earnest
and the fish make their seasonal movements from the expansive food
shelves to the basin, all you gotta do is know one or two transition
breaks, and wait for another biggy to come by.