Fishing near Mystic in New London County, CT

3.48 Rating based on 159 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Striped Bass, Largemouth Bass, Scup (Porgy), Blackfish, Other (Saltwater), Bluefish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 93
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 234
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Mystic Seaport near Mystic

Mystic Seaport

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S & P Oyster House View near Mystic

S & P Oyster House View

Great view of the Mystic River. The food is excellent.
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S & P Oyster House near Mystic

S & P Oyster House

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Mystic Pizza near Mystic

Mystic Pizza

This is the location where the movie "Mystic Pizza" with Julia Roberts was filmed
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Top Fishing Spots near Mystic

Whitford Brook
Whitford Brook

Avg. Rating: 4
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Fishers Island Sound
Fishers Island Sound

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
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Fishers Island  "east Harbor"
Fishers Island "east Harbor"

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 3
Views: 3386

Highland Park Lake
Highland Park Lake

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 991

Pawcatuck River
Pawcatuck River

Avg. Rating: 0
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Long Pond
Long Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
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Mystic Area Fish Species

Recent Mystic Fishing Reports

Worm Swarm Fishing Report May 27, 2009

Worm Swarm

Mason Island Mystic CT -

Fly fishing tidal ponds for stripers...

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whitford brook Fishing Report Mar 18, 2012

whitford brook

Whitford brook -

This is a very small brook, and the best place to go is the pool under the overpass on route 184....

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barn island Fishing Report May 24, 2009

barn island

we met up with lundrunner,at 450 at the home depot in waterford,jumped in his truck and headed out,i brought a friend with me,mike.we arrived at barn ...

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barn island Fishing Report Sep 15, 2009

barn island

fishers island sound -

met with gregg and bob for either blue or stripers.didnt find any stripers but found some nice blues...

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Two hours at five lakes Fishing Report Jun 23, 2013

Two hours at five lakes

five lakes groton -

Left the house at around 6 and arrived at five lakes about 10 min later. The solunar plot looked great for sunset so off i went. I had not used my n...

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FIVE LAKES Fishing Report Mar 18, 2012

FIVE LAKES

five lakes groton -

This set of ponds is right behind an apartment complex. There are some great bass in here, and i leave them behind because i catch the same fish over...

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Baits and Tackle used near Mystic

Check Prices

  • t n w and squid rig
  • Chartreuse Blonde
  • I was using a mepps #2 silver blade and white dressing
  • live bait
  • Squid
  • pearl strike king jerkbait
  • pearl jerkbait
  • keitech swing impact fat 4.8 ayu
  • white and silver rooster tail
  • mummies

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • eel/1 oz weight
  • eel
  • deadly dick
  • eel, frozen squid
  • Sandworms and Squid
  • live eals
  • meal worms
  • Clams
  • mussels on hook jigging

Tube Check Prices

  • tube and worm (sand worm)
  • Only hitting the tube and worm. Fish on every 50-100 yard run.
  • 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.

Creature Check Prices

  • Brush Hog in the pads

Minnow Check Prices

  • drifting minnows small weights right off the bottom and useing some rubber baits with lead jig heads bouncing them off the bottom
  • Shiners and chicken liver fished on the bottom.
  • large shiners
  • Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
  • Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
  • 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!
  • 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.
  • Hitting it real well with shinners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • i was using my silver and black BPS popper, until i lost it in a tree, another lure lost to the pond kings
  • Bass pro 3.5 inch black silver popper
  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • white luck-e-strike 110
  • small slgos

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • silver and orange fly from a kit from walmart.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
  • Thomas double spinner w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt
  • Calm 8 am small pond nice fish

Frog Bait Check Prices

Squid Check Prices

  • put a sinker on it and dropped it to the bottom
  • 4 oz
  • frozen squid
  • Spinner rigs with colored beads and buck tail fished along the bottom with a squid strip and spearing added
  • sabikis
  • double hook rig either let it drift or sink it and jig

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala slash bait
  • Green mini jerkbait 2-3 inches long caught most of the fish but no bass.
  • white x-rap

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • small spinners and very small rapala's
  • spearing/sqid
  • white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white
  • Spin-flies with a brown body and gold spinner worked best. Probably a caddis-fly or brown trout paint pattern. 1/16 or 1/8 oz.
  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer
  • Thomas spinner
  • Thomas Spinner
  • yellow rooster tail 1/8th
  • grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • on the teaser
  • gulp shrimp
  • Hammered Jig
  • squid
  • sqid
  • gulp
  • skate
  • braid jig shiners squid strips
  • strips
  • jigs

Terrestrial Check Prices

  • Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

  • same bps worm
  • i throw everything in here. the edges are very shallow so summer fishing is mostly with worms, but a crank will do in some of the open water.
  • BPS stick-o-worm 5 inch in watermelon red flake.
  • i use the keitech ayu worms and a regular green with gold fleck sinko
  • used a t-rigged 5" sinko
  • on the fast retrieve after looking for bass, the chain picks were killing it as i ran it in for another cast.
  • using the sinko melon with gold flake
  • red tube sandworm
  • blue black worm
  • watermelon gold flake

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • dark worm very slow
  • carolina rig
  • cocahoe medium speed

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 4oz buck tail with a strip of squid and live mummy chub.
    a 14inch non weighted trailer with a yellow skirt & live mummy
  • i was using a keitech 2" spider, and my partner was throwing there 4" worm. Both were working
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black 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.
  • black/silver shad killers

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

  • deadly dick
  • deadly dick,hopkins

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • Moby Worm
  • Platium Blonde 1/0 and olive flatwing deceiver 1/0
  • Fly Fishing - Rootbeer estaz and white marabou tied on a 1/0 hook wooly bugger style. Stripers and blues were feeding on nickle sized butterfish and peanut bunker
  • Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM
  • Flatwing Deceiver
  • Epoxy Bay Anchovie Pattern Size 2
  • Sight casting to stripers on the flats off Garniers Island Ny
  • Flies- Platinum Blonde 1/0, Gray white Flat wing Deceiver2/0 chartruese Closar 1/0
  • Olive Flat wing deceiver, popper

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • White Sassy shad
  • Swimming plug
  • Chatter bait, minnow/spinner
  • Tube & Worm
  • I used powerbait rubber worms.

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • yo zurry
  • floating Minnow
  • Plastic cricket

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Bright blue Shadow Rap Shad.
  • KVD 1.5
  • shad rapala flat rap 10
  • Strike king KVD bluegill 1.5
  • tried out my new xps hard jerkbait. It swims good to. Caught the smaller bass on the jerk action and the larger on a steady retrieve.
  • KVD 1.5 Bluegill
  • strikeking 3xd in green shad
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow w/berkely extruded night crawler added
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow
  • 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • chili immage skirt and watermelon red yum beaver tail
  • little stanley 1/4 round head jig with black paca craw
  • war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
  • green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
  • my regular watermelon red flake
  • 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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • same as usual
  • dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?
  • Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
  • i was using a 4.8 inch fat swing impact

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • purple and white fly to immitate bait fish

Lake Pattern Check Prices

  • Drop shot and finesse worms

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Blue/silver Castmaster with bucktail
  • i was using a 1.5 inch eppinger spoon in orange with black dots.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • fish under lights and throw somethin shinny about 3 feet down
  • Blaze Rattle Baits (Aqua/Chartreuse Belly and Firetiger)

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 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 :)
  • night crawler on a rattling bobber lol
  • Used the classic worm and a bobber...werent expecting to catch anything big, and we didnt, but still a fun time.
  • Nightcrawler hooked weedless

Herring Check Prices

  • Fresh Chunked Herring
  • Chunks of Atlantic menhaden

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Green crabs cut in half on a 4/0
    Gamakatsu Octopus hook
  • Green crabs cut in half

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • D DICK
  • i was using a little silver spoon 1/8 by little cleo, and was doing ok when not getting into a tree. There is not much room to cast, and any error one way or another and your in the brush.
  • Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)
  • Silver Diamond Jigs

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • slow and steady retrieve
  • BLUE/WHITE POPPER
  • 2 0z Zara Spook
    9" Sluggo(White)

Blade Bait Check Prices

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • Bucktail tipped with squid/spearing
  • Bucktails tipped with Squid/spearing. Brian caught the 9lber on bait rod with large silverside
  • Green bucktail with red pork rind on 3way

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

  • Live eel
  • crabs
  • greenies
  • blue crab!
  • chicken
  • blue crab on chicken
  • buck tails yellow or white with pork rind trailer , yellow darters, slingging eels at night
  • Eels
    Squid
  • blue crab
  • big crab!

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