Fishing near Central Manchester in Hartford County, CT

Check Prices

• if you know stripers then you should know what bait
• minnow live
• mixed color senkos
• Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
• berkley power bait trout nugget
• Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
• variety
• Chartreuse spinner bait
• 1/4 oz carolina lizard
• Just a worm on a size 2 hook.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• They are biting sand worms and blood worms
• eel
• eels!
• eels
• Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble
• They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
• Sandworm
• 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.

Creature Check Prices

• Switched to the watermelon seed baby brush hawg
• misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown
• D Bomb, greenish brown
• zoom brush hawg pumpkin
• All were caught on a Brush Hog plastic.

Minnow Check Prices

• large shinners with a bobber
• same old
• tip ups
• Golden shiner
• Minnows and Rapalas
• Mummies
• Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
• We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
• large shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• I used a 5" White Jerk Shad on a 1/4 white jig head.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• silver and orange fly from a kit from walmart.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• White rooster tail
• White 3/8 Strike King
• White Rooster Tail
• Thomas double spinner w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Black and Red Rubber Frog

Streamer Check Prices

• freshwater fly to immitate a bait fish, colors i used were yellow, purple, and blue
• We had the most luck fishing with muddler minnows and black ghosts. Also had success using green and white wholly buggers. Stay below the surface this time of year. Blue winged olives and other mayflies could be a good option as well.

Stick Bait Check Prices

• White and Red stick bait
• Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
• Rapala Original
• Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
• Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
• 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
• others at this pond using gold fish,trout bait and worms
• Green mini jerkbait 2-3 inches long caught most of the fish but no bass.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• blue fox
• little rooster
• black Rooster tail
• rooster tail
• and corn
• Phoebe
• Black/white spin-fly
• Caught using a rooster tail. Snagged it in the neck, so were not sure if it was actually interested in the lure.
• I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.
• Thomas single blade gold spinner.

Dry Fly Check Prices

• 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.
• Yellow drakes and orange/yellow sulfers.
• Caught using a yellow haired caddis ~#16 size.
• Caught on a yellow sally size 14. Had a bite using a yellow and red streamer.
• Bait Details
• test

Nymph Check Prices

• Green nymphs worked well.
  
  Also had luck with white streamers, muddler minnows, and zonkers.
• Nymphs, muddler minnows, and black ghosts all returned results
• Green bh nymph
• A cross between a pheasant tail and a copper jack.

Terrestrial Check Prices

• Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

• decided to throw some black yamamotos at these guys and they took it....
• Used Green senkos and tiger cranks
• I usually use my jitterbug and Yamamoto sinkos/hula grub here...its solid every time
• trigger x swimming worm rigged
• buck tail jig with a Berkeley worm
• weedless bucktail with a berkley worm
• watermelon seed yum dinger
• watermelon yum dinger
• yum dinger watermelon
• Soft plastic worms Texas Rigged weedless....bullet sinker a plus, as this was VERY vegetated...the bullet sinker helped the bait cut through just about all the veg.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• gulp
• fish was laying in the shallows and i bounced the jig off its face a few times and got a reaction strike. Found the fish was blind in one eye when i got it in the boat.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

• Green/brown d-bomb with a 1/2oz weight and 5/0 wide gap hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• bbz-1 shad blue back herring color
• ratl trap
• #11 minnow rapala
• Plastic cricket
• floating Minnow

Crankbait Check Prices

• booya crankbaits brown and green
• hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
• 4" floating minnow
• Yozuri
• spooks
• spook
• Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
• rattletrap
• Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.
• Daiwa Peanut...my favorite because of the action, the way it feels, and because I can cast it pretty far if I need to.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• white and blue,fishing mud line
• Stanley 1/4 oz jig head and net bait paca chunk in black trailer.
• blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• weighted Sluggo
• fin-s
• yellow
• white paddle tail
• Keitech ayu
• keitech 4" AYU
• berkley gulp(minnows)
• Pearl Suggos!

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly bugger, orange

Lake Pattern Check Prices

• Drop shot and finesse worms

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• 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
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• Just fished on a hook
• Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
• Trout worn with a single split shop weight
• Nightcrawler hooked weedless
• Used the classic worm and a bobber...werent expecting to catch anything big, and we didnt, but still a fun time.

Herring Check Prices

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• red craw by bill lewis
• baby bass color fast retrieve with sharp jerks
• Blaze Rattle Baits (Aqua/Chartreuse Belly and Firetiger)

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish
• 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

• eel
• hot dog dipped in Anise oil
• corn
• Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.
• 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
• rainbow or green powerbait
• i used yellow power bait
• Mealworm
• Chicken Liver