Fishing near Hartford in Hartford County, CT

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• minnow live
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait
• mixed color senkos
• Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• Chartreuse spinner bait
• 1/4 oz carolina lizard
• Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
• Surface lure after sunset.
• was fishing for trout
  Rig:
  barrel swivel
  leader
  red hook
  power bait marshmallows
  meal worm

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.
• Meal worm
  Lures
  Powerbait

Creature Check Prices

• D Bomb, greenish brown
• misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown
• Switched to the watermelon seed baby brush hawg

Minnow Check Prices

• same old
• large shinners with a bobber
• Minnows and Rapalas
• Golden shiner
• tip ups
• Mummies
• Drifting with live minnows
• Drifting with a live minnow
• medium size minnow on waited bobber.
• small size minnow

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Popper, Color Gold and black
• Rubber frog
• 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
• White 3/8 Strike King
• Phoebe and 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.
• freshwater fly to immitate a bait fish, colors i used were yellow, purple, and blue

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• blue fox
• black Rooster tail
• little rooster
• rooster tail
• and corn
• Caught using a rooster tail. Snagged it in the neck, so were not sure if it was actually interested in the lure.
• Black/white spin-fly
• meppes
• Phoebe
• rainbow phoebe

Dry Fly Check Prices

• Bait Details
• test
• 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.
• blue winged olive

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
• watermelon seed yum dinger
• watermelon yum dinger
• yum dinger watermelon
• Yamamotos Senko...green
  no luck on spinners and cranks
• 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

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• gulp

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• bbz-1 shad blue back herring color
• #11 minnow rapala
• ratl trap

Crankbait Check Prices

• rattletrap
• Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
• spook
• spooks
• Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.
• 4" floating minnow
• Yozuri
• booya crankbaits brown and green
• hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
• Rapala blue crankbait

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly bugger, orange

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• Just fished on a hook
• 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
• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
• Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
• Trout worn with a single split shop weight
• good cove for pan fish.. a few time's last year
• One caught on a crawler , one caught on a live minnow

Herring Check Prices

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• 2 inch, color gold and white

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish
• Mepps Comet 1
• purple rooster tail & live minnows

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Live Baits Check Prices

• eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• purple

Other Check Prices

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