Fishing near Middletown in Middlesex County, CT

Check Prices

• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
• Surface lure after sunset.
• Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
• minnow live
• shad trolling rig by 9ers rigs
• using a small keitech spider 2"
• was fishing for trout
  Rig:
  barrel swivel
  leader
  red hook
  power bait marshmallows
  meal worm
• shad 9ers trolling rigs
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Sandworm
• Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble
• eels
• eels!
• eel
• Meelworms and yellow powerbait nuggets
• They are biting sand worms and blood worms
• night crawlers, meal worms
• nightcrawlers, meal worms
• nightcrawlers

Creature Check Prices

• misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown
• D Bomb, greenish brown
• All were caught on a Brush Hog plastic.
• Switched to the watermelon seed baby brush hawg

Tube Check Prices

• 1"inch pumpkin seed tube

Minnow Check Prices

• Minnows and Rapalas
• Golden shiner
• same old
• Mummies
• large shinners with a bobber
• large shiners
• tip ups

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• spook style bait
• Rubber frog
• Surface popper
• Popper, Color Gold and black

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

• spiner .Rooster tail.
• Thomas double spinner w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt

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.
• Green and bright orange frog.

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

• 1/4 oz chartruse n white
• White and Red stick bait
• Green mini jerkbait 2-3 inches long caught most of the fish but no bass.
• white x-rap

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Caught using a rooster tail. Snagged it in the neck, so were not sure if it was actually interested in the lure.
• and corn
• I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.
• Thomas single blade gold spinner.
• Black/white spin-fly
• blue fox
• little rooster
• black Rooster tail
• rooster tail
• Phoebe

Dry Fly Check Prices

• Caught on a yellow sally size 14. Had a bite using a yellow and red streamer.
• Yellow drakes and orange/yellow sulfers.
• Caught using a yellow haired caddis ~#16 size.
• 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.

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

Terrestrial Check Prices

• Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

• strike king shimm-e-stik
  baby bass color
• 4" Watermelon Senko
• green 6in worm on a knuckle head jig
• 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.
• Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig
• Senko watermelon w/ black&red fleck
• Used a 4" black Yamamoto Senko.
• Yamamoto Sinkos
• Sandworms worked best, but squid slivers did OK
• decided to throw some black yamamotos at these guys and they took it....

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 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.
• black/silver shad killers
• gulp

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

• Green/brown d-bomb with a 1/2oz weight and 5/0 wide gap hook

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

• Flies- Platinum Blonde 1/0, Gray white Flat wing Deceiver2/0 chartruese Closar 1/0

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• #11 minnow rapala
• bbz-1 shad blue back herring color
• floating Minnow

Crankbait Check Prices

• Rapala blue crankbait
• Yozuri
• 4" floating minnow
• kvd
• kvd black chartreuse squairbill
• Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.
• spooks
• spook
• Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
• rattletrap

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• berkley gulp(minnows)
• fin-s
• Pearl Suggos!
• Keitech ayu
• keitech 4" AYU
• weighted Sluggo
• yellow
• white paddle tail
• silver slug-go sware by them
• i was using a 4.8 inch fat swing impact

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
• Just fished on a hook
• wiggler
• 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
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• swivel hook texas rigged
• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
• Nightcrawler hooked weedless

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Mepps Comet 1

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Grub Check Prices

• curly tail grub just slowly dragging
• grubs,meal worms said fishing was hot last couple of days.

Live Baits Check Prices

• eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Spikes with gulp maggots
• Toped with spike or gulp for sunnies. Or a shiner and little nipper for crappie.
• purple

Other Check Prices

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