Fishing near Bloomfield in Hartford County, CT

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• mixed color senkos
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait
• minnow live
• Chartreuse spinner bait
• 1/4 oz carolina lizard
• Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
• 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!!
• Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Nightcrallers & worms
• They are biting sand worms and blood worms
• They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
• eel
• eels!
• eels
• Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble
• Meal worm
  Lures
  Powerbait
• you should be able to use almost anything here. I perfer rooster tails and spinners. Meal worms and trout worms work just as well.
• Sandworm

Creature Check Prices

• D Bomb, greenish brown
• misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown

Minnow Check Prices

• same old
• large shinners with a bobber
• Drifting with live minnows
• Drifting with a live minnow
• medium size minnow on waited bobber.
• Minnows and Rapalas
• small size minnow
• used smalls up to mommalukes.
• tip ups
• Golden shiner

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Popper, Color Gold and black
• Rubber frog
• Lunker city Salad Spoon
• Popper
• Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass
  
  

Lizard Check Prices

• 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard
• 1/4 oz c rig lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• White rooster tail
• White Rooster Tail
• White 3/8 Strike King
• Phoebe and Rooster Tail
• spinnerbait , plastic worms

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Black and Red Rubber Frog
• 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

• Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
• Rapala Original
• White and Red stick bait
• Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
• Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
• 4 inch Senco green pumpkin

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• blue fox
• rooster tail
• black Rooster tail
• little rooster
• meppes
• and corn
• white tailed
• rainbow phoebe
• Phoebe
• Caught using a rooster tail. Snagged it in the neck, so were not sure if it was actually interested in the lure.

Dry Fly Check Prices

• Bait Details
• test
• blue winged olive
• Used a tan caddis #14 or so size. Such a small fish, probably not even worth recording, but oh well at least got something. Took quick photo and let em go.

Worm Check Prices

• Yamamotos Senko...green
  no luck on spinners and cranks
• yum dinger watermelon
• watermelon yum dinger
• watermelon seed yum dinger
• 4" Watermelon Senko
• decided to throw some black yamamotos at these guys and they took it....
• senko
• spoom work well to.
• black senko
• Used Green senkos and tiger cranks

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Senco stretch 40
• jig heads and swim baits
• SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD
• jig heads / swim tails

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• gulp

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• litle plastic minnows
• Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
• Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
• Kastmaster
• Kastmaster lure, heavy top water hits
• small swimming minnow soft bait
• Scum Frogs
• Sandworms
• Buzz bait (black blade & black skirt)

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• bbz-1 shad blue back herring color
• ratl trap
• #11 minnow rapala

Crankbait Check Prices

• rattletrap
• Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
• spook
• spooks
• Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.
• 4" floating minnow
• Yozuri
• booya crankbaits brown and green
• nofish but I know they're here sometimes
• spinner bait
  yamos
  crankbaits

Bass Jig Check Prices

• white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• white paddle tail
• yellow
• weighted Sluggo
• fin-s
• berkley gulp(minnows)

Wet Fly Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• red craw by bill lewis
• clacking rap
• baby bass color fast retrieve with sharp jerks

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
• Trout worn with a single split shop weight
• ok i have caught fish here with everything lures, shiners, night crawlers and i have even caught LMB with sunfish that i had caught on the worm initially. In fact when i realized that a huge bass was hitting my sunfish and the hook was too small to catch it, i rigged a bigger hook threw the fish back out and pulled in a 5-7lb bass. It was the 5th fat bass for summer 2009
• Just fished on a hook
• One caught on a crawler , one caught on a live minnow
• Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
• caught sun fish after about 10 am. 1 small perch about 6in. fishing has been slow so far this season.

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• 2 inch, color gold and white

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish
• purple rooster tail & live minnows
• Mepps Comet 1

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Live Baits Check Prices

• eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• purple

Other Check Prices

• hot dog dipped in Anise oil
• eel
• YELLOW GRUB
  WEIGHTS
  BIG HOOKS
• We use #2 hooks with leaders and tie them to our line
  A 3 oz weight to hold it on the bottom
• corn
• Chicken Liver
• rainbow or green powerbait
• Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.
• i used yellow power bait
• Mealworm