Fishing near Central Waterford in New London County, CT

Check Prices

• live bait
• eel
• sea robin
• Squid
• little cleo silver spoon 1/8th
• live worms
• live sand worms
• spearing squid strip
• white and silver rooster tail
• bottom fishing with sand worms

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Sandworms and Squid
• eel
• live eals
• eel, frozen squid
• eel/1 oz weight
• deadly dick
• Meelworms and yellow powerbait nuggets
• meal worms
• Clams

Tube Check Prices

• tube and worm (sand worm)
• Only hitting the tube and worm. Fish on every 50-100 yard run.
• running a bass pro shops 3.5 inch tube. Little fish were having a hard time choking the bait down, but they managed.

Creature Check Prices

• Brush Hog in the pads
• All were caught on a Brush Hog plastic.
• Switched to the watermelon seed baby brush hawg

Minnow Check Prices

• large shiners
• drifting minnows small weights right off the bottom and useing some rubber baits with lead jig heads bouncing them off the bottom
• Shiners and chicken liver fished on the bottom.
• Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
• Mummies

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• i was using my silver and black BPS popper, until i lost it in a tree, another lure lost to the pond kings
• Bass pro 3.5 inch black silver popper

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• white luck-e-strike 110
• I used a 5" White Jerk Shad on a 1/4 white jig head.

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• silver and orange fly from a kit from walmart.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Thomas double spinner w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt
• yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

Squid Check Prices

• frozen squid
• sabikis
• put a sinker on it and dropped it to the bottom
• Spinner rigs with colored beads and buck tail fished along the bottom with a squid strip and spearing added
• 4 oz

Streamer Check Prices

• 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.
• freshwater fly to immitate a bait fish, colors i used were yellow, purple, and blue

Stick Bait Check Prices

• white x-rap
• Green mini jerkbait 2-3 inches long caught most of the fish but no bass.
• Rapala slash bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Spin-flies with a brown body and gold spinner worked best. Probably a caddis-fly or brown trout paint pattern. 1/16 or 1/8 oz.
• white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white
• small spinners and very small rapala's
• spearing/sqid
• yellow rooster tail 1/8th
• mepps #4 silver and white trailer
• Thomas spinner
• Thomas single blade gold spinner.
• I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.
• Thomas Spinner

Dry Fly Check Prices

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

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• braid jig shiners squid strips
• skate
• strips
• gulp
• squid
• Hammered Jig
• sqid
• jigs
• on the teaser
• gulp shrimp

Terrestrial Check Prices

• Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Nymph Check Prices

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

Worm Check Prices

• using the sinko melon with gold flake
• watermelon gold flake
• used both watermelon and green pumpkin
• BPS stick-o-worm 5 inch in watermelon red flake.
• i throw everything in here. the edges are very shallow so summer fishing is mostly with worms, but a crank will do in some of the open water.
• same bps worm
• i use the keitech ayu worms and a regular green with gold fleck sinko
• used a t-rigged 5" sinko
• on the fast retrieve after looking for bass, the chain picks were killing it as i ran it in for another cast.
• Watermelon senco,5"

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Plastic sluggo worm

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• i was using a keitech 2" spider, and my partner was throwing there 4" worm. Both were working
• black/silver shad killers
• 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.
• 4oz buck tail with a strip of squid and live mummy chub.
  a 14inch non weighted trailer with a yellow skirt & live mummy
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
• 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

• deadly dick,hopkins
• deadly dick

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

• Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM
• Flatwing Deceiver
• Platium Blonde 1/0 and olive flatwing deceiver 1/0
• Moby Worm
• Fly Fishing - Rootbeer estaz and white marabou tied on a 1/0 hook wooly bugger style. Stripers and blues were feeding on nickle sized butterfish and peanut bunker
• Epoxy Bay Anchovie Pattern Size 2
• Flies- Platinum Blonde 1/0, Gray white Flat wing Deceiver2/0 chartruese Closar 1/0
• Sight casting to stripers on the flats off Garniers Island Ny
• Olive Flat wing deceiver, popper

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• White Sassy shad
• Swimming plug
• Tube & Worm
• Chatter bait, minnow/spinner
• I used powerbait rubber worms.

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• floating Minnow
• yo zurry
• Plastic cricket

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

• tried out my new xps hard jerkbait. It swims good to. Caught the smaller bass on the jerk action and the larger on a steady retrieve.
• Bright blue Shadow Rap Shad.
• KVD 1.5
• shad rapala flat rap 10
• Strike king KVD bluegill 1.5
• KVD 1.5 Bluegill
• strikeking 3xd in green shad
• Chubby Bluegill crankbait
• Chubby bluegill crankbait
• THE Matzuo

Bass Jig Check Prices

• my regular watermelon red flake
• little stanley 1/4 round head jig with black paca craw
• chili immage skirt and watermelon red yum beaver tail
• green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
• war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
• Stanley 1/4 oz jig head and net bait paca chunk in black trailer.
• blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
• i used a jig and wacky worm.
• blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• i was using a 4.8 inch fat swing impact
• dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?
• same as usual
• Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
• Pearl Suggos!
• keitech 4" AYU
• Keitech ayu

Wet Fly Check Prices

• purple and white fly to immitate bait fish
• Wolly bugger, orange

Lake Pattern Check Prices

• Drop shot and finesse worms

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• Blue/silver Castmaster with bucktail
• i was using a 1.5 inch eppinger spoon in orange with black dots.

Herring Check Prices

• Fresh Chunked Herring
• Chunks of Atlantic menhaden

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• fish under lights and throw somethin shinny about 3 feet down
• Blaze Rattle Baits (Aqua/Chartreuse Belly and Firetiger)

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Used the classic worm and a bobber...werent expecting to catch anything big, and we didnt, but still a fun time.
• Nightcrawler hooked weedless
• very basic, traditional techs..and I never use a bobber. that way I come out with either a lmb or catfish in this spot, its a win-win situation :)
• night crawler on a rattling bobber lol

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Green crabs cut in half
• Green crabs cut in half on a 4/0
  Gamakatsu Octopus hook

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• i was using a little silver spoon 1/8 by little cleo, and was doing ok when not getting into a tree. There is not much room to cast, and any error one way or another and your in the brush.
• Silver Diamond Jigs
• D DICK
• Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• BLUE/WHITE POPPER
• slow and steady retrieve

Blade Bait Check Prices

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• Bucktail tipped with squid/spearing
• Bucktails tipped with Squid/spearing. Brian caught the 9lber on bait rod with large silverside
• Green bucktail with red pork rind on 3way

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Toped with spike or gulp for sunnies. Or a shiner and little nipper for crappie.
• Running a keitech 3" spider jig with BPS crappie Jig head. Fish did a good job almost getting away, fought very hard, and almost straitened out the hook.
• Spikes with gulp maggots

Other Check Prices

• blue crab!
• chicken
• blue crab on chicken
• Live eel
• crabs
• greenies
• blue crab
• big crab!
• any thing works chunkbait, live bait, sand worms, squid strips , lures
• Eels and squid