Fishing near Mansfield Center in Tolland County, CT

3.55 Rating based on 182 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Winter Skate, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Striped Bass, Smallmouth Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 125
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 293
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Mansfield Hollow near Mansfield Center

Mansfield Hollow

Panoramic of Mansfield Hollow Res Looking South East from the Dam
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Mansfield Hollow near Mansfield Center

Mansfield Hollow

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Top Fishing Spots near Mansfield Center

Mansfield Hollow
Mansfield Hollow

Avg. Rating: 4.4
# Reviews: 5
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Mount Hope River
Mount Hope River

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Shetucket River
Shetucket River

Avg. Rating: 4.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 14307

Willimantic River
Willimantic River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 5082

Eagleville Pond
Eagleville Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 4996

Pine Acres Lake
Pine Acres Lake

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 2
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Mansfield Center Area Fish Species

Recent Mansfield Center Fishing Reports

Mansfield Hollow  Fishing Report Sep 22, 2007

Mansfield Hollow

Not alot to report- fished for about 2 1/2 hours. Got SKUNKED. Wind was fairly strong & tossed the canoe all over the place. Tried buzz baits, ...

Avg. Rating: 4
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1st fishing this season Fishing Report Apr 26, 2009

1st fishing this season

Mansfield Hollow -

Great weather on the water. 2 pickerel a perch and a very dark smallie. 2 nice fish pulled the hook...

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Created by: steve1
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virgin fish trip Fishing Report Apr 25, 2008

virgin fish trip

mansfield hollow -

this is the first trip for my bud from Brooklyn...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Hollow Lake Fishing Report Jul 01, 2012

Hollow Lake

Mansfield, ct -

Hiking and fishing the north shore...

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Mansfield Hollow spring 2012 Fishing Report May 31, 2012

Mansfield Hollow spring 2012

Mansfield Hollow -

After several days (May 5th, May 20th and May 30) I've decided Mansfield is to long a drive to go looking for pike. A couple of nice bass and 1 n...

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Dianas Pool Fishing Report May 27, 2012

Dianas Pool

Natchaug River -

Salmon...

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Baits and Tackle used near Mansfield Center

Check Prices

  • Just a worm on a size 2 hook.
  • variety
  • Bass caught on plastic cricket, pike caught on small blue/silver Phoebe
  • Gold/Silver Spoon and Berkley Artificial Minnow/Smelt,

    2 Pickerel (1 ~14"), 3 Crapie, 1 Trout, 1 Chub, 1 Bluegill
  • Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
  • berkley power bait trout nugget
  • blue fox#2 deep runners bright blue with white tail Berkely minnow perch patern
  • people were using meal worms and marshmelows to take small trout.
  • Lost my #2 mepps spinner after i hooked into the big unknown fish. Took the smallies on a 1/6 orange roostertail. Then hung up and lost that.
  • threw berkely minnows perch patern, Suspending Rapala Perch patern , Grub jigs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • zoom brush hawg pumpkin
  • Switched to the watermelon seed baby brush hawg
  • 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.

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Bass pro 3.5 inch black silver popper

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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
  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

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
  • Green mini jerkbait 2-3 inches long caught most of the fish but no bass.
  • Rapala slash bait
  • White and Red stick bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Phoebe
  • yellow rooster tail 1/8th
  • grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
  • Thomas Spinner
  • Black/white spin-fly
  • Thomas spinner
  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer
  • and corn
  • I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.
  • little rooster

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

  • 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.

Terrestrial Check Prices

  • Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

  • Morotr oil rubber worm, yellow tail
  • Yama Senko in 5" and Watermelon
  • Senko Worm
  • Yamamoto Sinkos
  • Senko watermelon w/ black&red fleck
  • Used a 4" black Yamamoto Senko.
  • 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.
  • 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

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD
  • jig heads and swim baits
  • jig heads / swim tails

Hard Baits 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.
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • I used powerbait rubber worms.
  • Chatter bait, minnow/spinner
  • small swimming minnow soft bait
  • Swimming plug
  • White Sassy shad
  • Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
  • Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
  • Sandworms

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Daiwa Peanut...my favorite because of the action, the way it feels, and because I can cast it pretty far if I need to.
  • 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
  • hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
  • Chubby bluegill crankbait
  • Chubby Bluegill crankbait
  • THE Matzuo
  • booya crankbaits brown and green
  • Booyah tiger
  • Rapala segmented shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • 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
  • keitech 4" AYU
  • Keitech ayu
  • fin-s
  • yellow
  • white paddle tail
  • weighted Sluggo

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

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Blade Bait Check Prices

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Live Baits Check Prices

  • eel

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.
  • purple

Other Check Prices

  • powerbait yellow
  • corn
  • eel
  • hot dog dipped in Anise oil
  • Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.

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