Fishing near Coventry Lake in Tolland County, CT

Check Prices

• variety
• Just a worm on a size 2 hook.
• Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
• berkley power bait trout nugget
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait
• Gold/Silver Spoon and Berkley Artificial Minnow/Smelt,
  
  2 Pickerel (1 ~14"), 3 Crapie, 1 Trout, 1 Chub, 1 Bluegill
• Bass caught on plastic cricket, pike caught on small blue/silver Phoebe
• minnow live
• All my fish were caught on a texas rigged Gary Yamamoto Stretch 40 worm in green pumpkin with a 3/8 oz. bullet weight pegged on the front.
• Thomas double spinner w/a little bit'o Berkley Gulp! Extruded Nightcrawler then w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

• tip ups
• large shinners with a bobber
• Golden shiner
• Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
• same old
• Minnows and Rapalas
• Mummies
• large shiners
• 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.
• Shiners and chicken liver fished on the bottom.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

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

• Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
• Thomas double spinner w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt

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

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Phoebe
• Black/white spin-fly
• and corn
• yellow rooster tail 1/8th
• little rooster
• black Rooster tail
• blue fox
• rooster tail
• grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
• I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.

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.

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

• Senko Worm
• Yama Senko in 5" and Watermelon
• I usually use my jitterbug and Yamamoto sinkos/hula grub here...its solid every time
• trigger x swimming worm rigged
• weedless bucktail with a berkley worm
• Used Green senkos and tiger cranks
• buck tail jig with a Berkeley worm
• Yamamoto Sinkos
• 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.
• Morotr oil rubber worm, yellow tail

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
• Chatter bait, minnow/spinner
• I used powerbait rubber worms.
• Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
• Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
• Sandworms
• Scum Frogs
• litle plastic minnows

Craw Check Prices

• Green/brown d-bomb with a 1/2oz weight and 5/0 wide gap hook
• yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• bbz-1 shad blue back herring color
• Plastic cricket
• floating Minnow
• ratl trap
• First cast and I had one.

Crankbait Check Prices

• hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
• Daiwa Peanut...my favorite because of the action, the way it feels, and because I can cast it pretty far if I need to.
• booya crankbaits brown and green
• two small bass, (one was 11") and a pickerel (about 15", didn't measure, just a guess)
• http://www.ctfishfinder.com/view_photo_details.php?id=19551&pid=21
• Chubby bluegill crankbait
• Chubby Bluegill crankbait
• Yozuri
• 4" floating minnow
• spooks

Bass Jig Check Prices

• blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer
• white and blue,fishing mud line
• blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
• Stanley 1/4 oz jig head and net bait paca chunk in black trailer.
• i used a jig and wacky worm.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Keitech ayu
• keitech 4" AYU
• yellow
• white paddle tail
• fin-s
• weighted Sluggo
• Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
• Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
• dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?
• same as usual

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Lake Pattern Check Prices

• Drop shot and finesse worms

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• i was using a 1.5 inch eppinger spoon in orange with black dots.

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
• Nightcrawler hooked weedless
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• Just fished on a hook
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
• Used the classic worm and a bobber...werent expecting to catch anything big, and we didnt, but still a fun time.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Live Baits Check Prices

• eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• purple
• 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.

Other Check Prices

• corn
• eel
• hot dog dipped in Anise oil
• powerbait yellow
• 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