Fishing near Moosup in Windham County, CT

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Smallmouth Bass, Striped Bass, Sunfish, Yellow Perch
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 163
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 288
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Top Fishing Spots near Moosup

Moosup River
Moosup River

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Carbuncle Pond
Carbuncle Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.2
# Reviews: 5
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Moosup River
Moosup River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
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Quinebaug River
Quinebaug River

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Tillinghast Pond
Tillinghast Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
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Aspinook Pond
Aspinook Pond

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# Reviews: 1
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Moosup Area Fish Species

Recent Moosup Fishing Reports

wauregan pond Fishing Report May 15, 2009

wauregan pond

wauregan ,ct -

very shallow water loaded with largemouth and small mouth bass and i mean loaded, best bait there would have to be , yummo crawfish with lpt technolog...

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up the river i go Fishing Report Sep 05, 2012

up the river i go

Quinebaug River -

I decided that i was not going to let a little low water ruin my love for the river, and i just did it. I put in at the trout hatchery and moved up s...

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UP THE RIVER AGAIN Fishing Report Sep 08, 2012

UP THE RIVER AGAIN

Quinebaug River -

Launched today at the rt14 bridge on the quini. Again i headed upstream, due to not having another chase car to bring me back. Its nice the river is...

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Canterbury slam jam Fishing Report May 21, 2013

Canterbury slam jam

Packer Pond, Quinabauge river -

Fishing all my hot spots ...

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Top water action Fishing Report Jun 25, 2015

Top water action

Carbuncle Pond -

bass, blue gill and turtles all hit top water today....

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Carbuncle pond Fishing Report Apr 13, 2008

Carbuncle pond

Carbuncle pond, RI -

6:00 am no rain 6:20 first salmon its by 7:00 am 3 salmon are caught and 1 rainbow trout turns out to be a great sunny day after the thunderstorm roll...

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Baits and Tackle used near Moosup

Check Prices

  • Live Bluegill
  • Northland Thumper chart-green, ~1/4 oz
  • drifting worms no sinker
  • Just a worm on a size 2 hook.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • threw berkely minnows perch patern, Suspending Rapala Perch patern , Grub jigs
  • mummies
  • keitech swing impact fat 4.8 ayu

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • meal worms

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.
  • Fishing bass tube along weed edges and downed trees.
  • drop shots and topwater
  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • 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
  • Shiners and chicken liver fished on the bottom.
  • big dead goldies
  • drifting minnows small weights right off the bottom and useing some rubber baits with lead jig heads bouncing them off the bottom
  • mediums
  • Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
  • 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.
  • large shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..
  • I only used topwater frogs, black buzz and some weedless ones that I picked up at bass pro. The 22" was cought on a light green weedless frog. One day I'll buy a scale...
  • Bass pro 3.5 inch black silver popper

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • white luck-e-strike 110

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • silver and orange fly from a kit from walmart.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
  • Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
    11-1/2" Short
    1lber culled
    Limit was:
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 7oz
    1-1/4lbs
    1lb 1oz
    1lber
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • 2lber on Spinnerbait
    10" on drop shot
  • Thomas double spinner w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt

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

  • Rapala slash bait
  • 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.

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
  • small spinners and very small rapala's
  • white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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Terrestrial Check Prices

  • Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

  • 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
  • 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.
  • Had the worms hooked weedless and just casted into the lilly pads and we kept bringing them in.
  • today the melons were not the ticket, got two on black blue, and two more on the purple pink shad
  • 5" yum dinger
  • wacky rigged 5" worm
  • 5" wacky worm
  • red shad powerworm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Powerbait 7" plastic worms
  • Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
  • carolina rig

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • I used powerbait rubber worms.
  • Chatter bait, minnow/spinner
  • Swimming plug
  • White Sassy shad
  • 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • First cast and I had one.
  • Plastic cricket
  • floating Minnow

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
  • THE Matzuo
  • strikeking 3xd in green shad
  • KVD 1.5 Bluegill
  • Strike king KVD bluegill 1.5
  • shad rapala flat rap 10

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • i used a jig and wacky worm.
  • blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
  • blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer
  • green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
  • war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
  • chili immage skirt and watermelon red yum beaver tail
  • 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
  • little stanley 1/4 round head jig with black paca craw

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Corn Yellow Powerbait
  • 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?
  • Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos

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.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

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 :)
  • Nightcrawler hooked weedless
  • small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
  • Used the classic worm and a bobber...werent expecting to catch anything big, and we didnt, but still a fun time.
  • one huge cold nightcrawler

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Blade Bait Check Prices

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
  • Powerbait

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