Fishing near Bantam in Litchfield County, CT

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• Drifting
• decent spot, watch for shallow rocks, about 10 to 12 feet beyond the point, very acessable with a canoe
• my bait of choice for deep bass fishing in this spot is bouncing crawdads off the bottom or carolina rigged pumpkin seed power bait worms
• spinner baits or buzz baits or small rapalas work very good here. live shiners hooked through the nose casted and retreved with a small split shot 6 inch in front of it works good too
• a good choice of bait for highland lake is shiners down about 13 feet with a weight to keep them down or nightcrawler allways work good too!!
• THIS WAS CAUGHT USING AN OLD SCHOOL SILVER JOHNSON SPRITE SPOON
• was fishing for trout
  Rig:
  barrel swivel
  leader
  red hook
  power bait marshmallows
  meal worm
• Rubber Worms Texas Rig
  
  Mepps #3
  
  Rapala X-Rap
• some on shiners some o lures spinner baits worms cranks
• tubes, senkos,

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• I use meal worms here, power bait, trout worms and lures. The fish bite here off almost everything.
• power bait, live bait, lures
• you should be able to use almost anything here. I perfer rooster tails and spinners. Meal worms and trout worms work just as well.
• Meal worm
  Lures
  Powerbait
• nightcrawlers, meal worms
• night crawlers, meal worms

Creature Check Prices

• strike king hellgramite
  strike rocket shad

Minnow Check Prices

• Drifting
• medium size minnow on waited bobber.
• small size minnow
• used smalls up to mommalukes.
• Drifting with live minnows
• Slow troll wife minnows,drifting on top
• Drifting with a live minnow

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Rubber frog
• poppers and walkers

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Booyah spinnerbaits,Some crankbaits
• Blue/Green
• Phoebe and Rooster Tail
• White Rooster Tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

• usually top water baits invoke strikes over here. senkos and fin-s type baits work well too but only before the big milfoil bloom. after that they get so bogged down with weeds the fish cant even get at them.

Stick Bait Check Prices

• a greenback stickbait
• green back

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Rubber worms, Mepps,Blue Fox Vibrax,Spinnerbait
• rainbow phoebe
• white tailed

Dry Fly Check Prices

• Hendrickson Emerger, Hendrickson Comparadun,
• blue winged olive

Worm Check Prices

• Wacky Senkos
• Wacky senkos
• casting into weed bed
• casting into Lily pads
• Zoom green Weenie
• zoom green weenie trick worm
• oxe blood roboworm
• oxblood senko
• spoom work well to.
• Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Dropshot, and Small Spinner Bait
• Drop shot mostly
• 2-1/2lber on c-rig
  1-1/2lber, couple 1-1/4ber, 1lbers, and shorts on spinner bait, and dropshot
• 1-1/2lber, and a 1-1/4lber on a spinner bait. Couple 1lbers, and shorts on dropshot I think
  

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Lucky Craft, American shad pointer 4 inch
• Kastmaster lure, heavy top water hits
• Kastmaster

Craw Check Prices

• Threw it close to the shore after spotting the bass and he immediately attacked it.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Rebel Crawfish Lure

Crankbait Check Prices

• 1/4 oz 2-5 ' running
• Baby Bass
• rapala lipless baby bass

Emerger Check Prices

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Powerbait minnows Drop shot

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Euro Crawler so not as big fit on the hook nicely.the on i got was about 11" and 2/3 of a #
• good cove for pan fish.. a few time's last year
• caught sun fish after about 10 am. 1 small perch about 6in. fishing has been slow so far this season.
• Red Eye bass will hit alot of the time in most of the coves and downed trees
• One caught on a crawler , one caught on a live minnow
• used Euro crawlers,and trout worms.fished the bottom.got snagged a few times,lost tackel,,tipical....
• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• clacking rap

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• 2 inch, color gold and white

Blade Bait Check Prices

• purple rooster tail & live minnows

Grub Check Prices

• grubs,meal worms said fishing was hot last couple of days.

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• 1/16 white road runner in current with a reeling and jigging motion

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