Fishing near Canton in Hartford County, CT

3.28 Rating based on 162 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Striped Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Channel Catfish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 126
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 190
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Canton Fishing Photos

Looking at Dam near Canton

Looking at Dam

The very south end of the lake.
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smallie near Canton

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The smallie with the crappie in his mouth.
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smallie near Canton

smallie

This smallie weigh in at 5 1/2 pounds.
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Lake McDonough near Canton

Lake McDonough

Looking North
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Rainy Saturday near Canton

Rainy Saturday

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Top Fishing Spots near Canton

Tubing Pick Up Point
Tubing Pick Up Point

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Satan's Kingdom Park
Satan's Kingdom Park

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Lake McDonough
Lake McDonough

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Secret Lake
Secret Lake

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Nepaug Reservoir
Nepaug Reservoir

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Saville Dam
Saville Dam

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Canton Area Fish Species

Recent Canton Fishing Reports

Lake McDonough Fishing Report Aug 12, 2008

Lake McDonough

Lake McDonough, Barkhamsted, CT -

A beautiful day, but no fish. Lots of rain the night before and perfectly clear water made fishing tough. ...

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Lake McDonough Fishing Report Jul 11, 2011

Lake McDonough

Lake McDonough, Barkhamsted, CT -

This is a sad story while trolling on lake McDonough we saw a commotion on the surface of the water and we turned around to find a small mouth bass on...

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Windy Saturday Fishing Report Oct 10, 2009

Windy Saturday

Secret Lake -

Wow,
Too windy! I got pushed around in my canoe today spent more time trying not to roll over than fishing. I'll try again Sunday...

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Secret Lake Saturday Fishing Report Oct 24, 2009

Secret Lake Saturday

Secret Lake Avon,CT -

Lots of rain and lots of fish...

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Nice November weekend Fishing Report Nov 09, 2009

Nice November weekend

Secret Lake -

Started slow but picked up on Sunday...

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Post Thanksgiving Fishing Fishing Report Nov 27, 2009

Post Thanksgiving Fishing

Secret Lake -

Cold,windy but I had a blast. Caught quite a few bass a couple nice size ones as well....

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Baits and Tackle used near Canton

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  • 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!!
  • mixed color senkos
  • decent spot, watch for shallow rocks, about 10 to 12 feet beyond the point, very acessable with a canoe
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • if you know stripers then you should know what bait
  • minnow live
  • Drifting

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Meal worm
    Lures
    Powerbait
  • Nightcrallers & worms
  • you should be able to use almost anything here. I perfer rooster tails and spinners. Meal worms and trout worms work just as well.
  • They are biting sand worms and blood worms
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
  • eel
  • I use meal worms here, power bait, trout worms and lures. The fish bite here off almost everything.
  • power bait, live bait, lures
  • eels!
  • eels

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • Drifting with live minnows
  • Drifting with a live minnow
  • medium size minnow on waited bobber.
  • used smalls up to mommalukes.
  • small size minnow
  • same old
  • Drifting
  • large shinners with a bobber

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber frog
  • Popper, Color Gold and black
  • Lunker city Salad Spoon

Lizard Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Phoebe and Rooster Tail
  • White Rooster Tail
  • White rooster tail
  • White 3/8 Strike King
  • Booyah spinnerbaits,Some crankbaits
  • Blue/Green

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.
  • Black and Red Rubber Frog

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • Bait Details
  • test
  • blue winged olive
  • Hendrickson Emerger, Hendrickson Comparadun,

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • white tailed
  • blue fox
  • rainbow phoebe
  • rooster tail
  • black Rooster tail
  • little rooster
  • meppes
  • Rubber worms, Mepps,Blue Fox Vibrax,Spinnerbait
  • and corn

Worm Check Prices

  • spoom work well to.
  • Yamamotos Senko...green
    no luck on spinners and cranks
  • 4 inch Green Pumpkin Yamamoto Senco
  • Senkos and Tiger/perch cranks
  • 4" Watermelon Senko
  • yum dinger watermelon
  • watermelon yum dinger
  • watermelon seed yum dinger
  • Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig
  • senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

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Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • litle plastic minnows
  • Kastmaster
  • Kastmaster lure, heavy top water hits
  • Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
  • Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
  • small swimming minnow soft bait
  • Scum Frogs
  • Lucky Craft, American shad pointer 4 inch
  • Sandworms

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • bbz-1 shad blue back herring color
  • Rebel Crawfish Lure
  • ratl trap

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

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
  • Trout worn with a single split shop weight
  • One caught on a crawler , one caught on a live minnow
  • 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
  • peice of nightcrawler on a hook
  • just night crawlers on small hooks
  • little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
  • good cove for pan fish.. a few time's last year
  • Euro Crawler so not as big fit on the hook nicely.the on i got was about 11" and 2/3 of a #

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • clacking rap
  • red craw by bill lewis

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

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Grub Check Prices

  • Orange color grub.

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
  • i used yellow power bait
  • Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.
  • rainbow or green powerbait

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