Fishing near Farmington in Hartford County, CT

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• minnow live
• Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait
• was fishing for trout
  Rig:
  barrel swivel
  leader
  red hook
  power bait marshmallows
  meal worm
• mixed color senkos
• Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
• Surface lure after sunset.
• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• 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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• 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
• eel
• eels!
• eels
• Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble
• I use meal worms here, power bait, trout worms and lures. The fish bite here off almost everything.
• Sandworm
• power bait, live bait, lures
• Nightcrallers & worms

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Black and Red Rubber Frog
• 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.

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.

Stick Bait Check Prices

• White and Red stick bait
• Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
• Rapala Original
• Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
• 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
• Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
• 1/4 oz chartruse n white

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• blue fox
• and corn
• black Rooster tail
• little rooster
• rainbow phoebe
• rooster tail
• Caught using a rooster tail. Snagged it in the neck, so were not sure if it was actually interested in the lure.
• Rubber worms, Mepps,Blue Fox Vibrax,Spinnerbait
• white tailed
• meppes

Dry Fly Check Prices

• Bait Details
• test
• blue winged olive
• 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.

Nymph Check Prices

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

Worm Check Prices

• 4" Watermelon Senko
• Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig
• Yamamotos Senko...green
  no luck on spinners and cranks
• yum dinger watermelon
• watermelon yum dinger
• watermelon seed yum dinger
• spoom work well to.
• strike king shimm-e-stik
  baby bass color
• Wacky senkos
• casting into weed bed

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• bbz-1 shad blue back herring color
• #11 minnow rapala
• Rebel Crawfish Lure

Crankbait Check Prices

• Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.
• rattletrap
• Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
• spook
• spooks
• 4" floating minnow
• Yozuri
• Rapala blue crankbait
• 1/4 oz 2-5 ' running
• booya crankbaits brown and green

Bass Jig Check Prices

• white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly bugger, orange

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• Just fished 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 #
• Trout worn with a single split shop weight
• 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
• caught sun fish after about 10 am. 1 small perch about 6in. fishing has been slow so far this season.

Herring Check Prices

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• red craw by bill lewis
• clacking rap
• baby bass color fast retrieve with sharp jerks

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• 2 inch, color gold and white

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Mepps Comet 1
• 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

• grubs,meal worms said fishing was hot last couple of days.

Live Baits Check Prices

• eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• purple

Other Check Prices

• hot dog dipped in Anise oil
• eel
• corn
• i used yellow power bait
• Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.
• Mealworm
• yellow power bait
• 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