Fishing near East Brooklyn in Windham County, CT

Check Prices

• Just a worm on a size 2 hook.
• Live Bluegill
• Northland Thumper chart-green, ~1/4 oz
• Rattle trap
• White Nichols spinnerbait w/ white grub trailer
• Tube
• nuts berries vegetation of all natures and LIVE GAME !
• shiners nightcrawlers and meal worms
• one 1-1/2 lber and 3 other all around a pound
• Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Hand size Kivas
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Medium sized Frog
• Medium to small sized frogs seem to work the best but ive even caught pike and largemouth off of a full grown frog sink em or let em swim on top either way works very effectivly
• meal worms

Creature Check Prices

• zoom brush hawg pumpkin
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• Carolina Rig
• used baby brush hog
• Brush Hog in the pads

Tube Check Prices

• running a bass pro shops 3.5 inch tube. Little fish were having a hard time choking the bait down, but they managed.
• drop shots and topwater

Minnow Check Prices

• big dead goldies
• used mostly live shiners,but when they ran out I was using a spinner bait and a surface frog and hitting pickerel and base, lots of Yellow perch here as well.
• Fish where hitting hard on shiners, one hit be so hard my line broke at the bobber and the fish took it and the bobber never surfaced again!? there some very big fish here!
• Hitting it real well with shinners
• mediums
• Shiners and chicken liver fished on the bottom.
• Some guy bought some live shiners at Big O's and left us with a few. This one was about 3" long and brought in a 10" perch.
• drifting minnows small weights right off the bottom and useing some rubber baits with lead jig heads bouncing them off the bottom
• Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
• medeim to large shiners and never thought nightcrawlers would work through the ice but i ended up with a crappie and a perch while jigging one just waitin for my flags

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..

Lizard Check Prices

• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• white luck-e-strike 110

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• silver and orange fly from a kit from walmart.
• Again Dat food( shrimplies and gold) and feed corn were present. We also tried a packbait of Limeycarper, as well as bread, strawberry canned corn, and luncheon meat.
  
  

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
• Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
  11-1/2" Short
  1lber culled
  Limit was:
  1-1/2lbs
  1lb 7oz
  1-1/4lbs
  1lb 1oz
  1lber
• yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
• 2lber on Spinnerbait
  10" on drop shot
• spinner, silver with red trim
• My 3 Fish Limit was:
  1lb 11oz
  1lb 4oz
  14oz
  
  4 Shorts too
  
• rooster tail spinner

Frog Bait Check Prices

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• others at this pond using gold fish,trout bait and worms
• Rapala slash bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
• Thomas Spinner
• Thomas spinner
• mepps #4 silver and white trailer
• yellow rooster tail 1/8th
• 6" and 8" on inline spinner
• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner
• Phoebe

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Had the worms hooked weedless and just casted into the lilly pads and we kept bringing them in.
• using bass pro shops worms that i just picked up and they hold up a lot better than the garys.
• yum dinger 5" watermelon seed
  
• Yamamoto sinkos
• red shad powerworm
• red shad pwer worm
• landed the 2.10 on a 5 inch worm lost the monster while swimming a jig
• tried the 5" green pumpkin worm today, vise my regular watermelon and it worked well.
• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• Morotr oil rubber worm, yellow tail

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerkbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Drop Shot
• 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
• Dropshot
• Drop Shot, and Shakey Head
• 11" Drop Shot
  11-3/4" Carolina Rig
• Drop shot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
• gulp

Craw Check Prices

• yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology
• weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• I used powerbait rubber worms.
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
• Chatter bait, minnow/spinner
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
• Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
• Rooster tail
• Swimming plug

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• First cast and I had one.
• Plastic cricket
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

• Rapala segmented shad
• 4" jerkbait silver-black back
• rapalla balsa floating minnow
• 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,
• rapalla balsa floating minnow w/berkely extruded night crawler added
• crankbaits and spinners
• THE Matzuo
• Squarebill, and dropshot
• Booyah tiger
• strikeking 3xd in green shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

• i used a jig and wacky worm.
• blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer
• blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot
• green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
• war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• chili immage skirt and watermelon red yum beaver tail

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Corn Yellow Powerbait
• Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
• same as usual
• Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
• dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Just had the crawler on the bottem. Had the hook about 1 foot above the sinker, so the sinker got the weeds instead of the hook.
• night crawler on a rattling bobber lol
• 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 :)
• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
• Nightcrawler hooked weedless
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• one huge cold nightcrawler

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Blaze Rattle Baits (Aqua/Chartreuse Belly and Firetiger)

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Grub Check Prices

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 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

• powerbait yellow
• Again the Dat food boilie line really worked well here. Shrimplies(shrimp) and gold( pineapple) performed above my expectations. Feed corn was of course also on the menu and produced a few good runs.
• Bait for carp: (which are the only fish I am coun ting for here)
  Chum the night before with a mix of Maize and oat/bran/grits method/ground bait
  
  Hook bait was maize on a hair with tutty-fruity or molasses glug, or maize or corn-pops on the hook with a oat/bran/grits pack bait
  
  Bait for sunnies/bluegills/etc:
  Meal worms, canned corn, bread
  
  Many were caught as part of the event but I did not keep a tally.
  
• Maize has been my bait of choice, followed closely by maple peas and an oat based pack bait.
  
  Molasses and maple have been strong producing flavors for me this early on..latter this will change to more fruit and maybe even a fish/blood as the water warms.
• This was our trial run weekend for a new line of boilies my friends and I have been working on from the Blackstone Carp videos. Dat Food Boilies ( we used 3 types Shrimplies(shrimp), Gold(pineapple)and Pop-ups). I won't give the recipe on these as it has taken me quite some time to put a truly good boilie together. I will, on request, give out some more basic boilie recipes to get people started though.
  
  Also Feed corn was on the menu and did produce a fish or two.
• Our bucket contained once again
  feed corn, maple peas, dat food and chick peas.
  
  Sadly on this outing nothing really produced with a few Crucian carp grabbing anything they could.
  
  
• Feed corn and Dat food are always on the menu now. Maple peas have made their way back as well. We had a batch of Anise and fruit ( see the tutorial on bait in the forums or at www.blackstonecarp.com) and some of the Dat food dough un boiled. Dat food seemed to be the bait of choice with maples coming in just behind.
• We have been using primarily feed corn, soaked for at least 24 hours then boiled for 1 hour till it is a firm but chewable texture. Molasses and fishy flavors have been the producing choices.
  
  We have also been using a grits based pack bait, with some results.
  
  
  
  Pre-feeding will produce better results typically
  
  
• Canned sweet corn, White bread work well here as well as all manner of dough baits and boilies.
• Powerbait