Fishing near New Britain in Hartford County, CT

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• Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
• minnow live
• Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• Surface lure after sunset.
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait
• was fishing for trout
  Rig:
  barrel swivel
  leader
  red hook
  power bait marshmallows
  meal worm
• mixed color senkos
• my bait of choice for deep bass fishing in this spot is bouncing crawdads off the bottom or carolina rigged pumpkin seed power bait worms
• decent spot, watch for shallow rocks, about 10 to 12 feet beyond the point, very acessable with a canoe

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• eel
• Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble
• you should be able to use almost anything here. I perfer rooster tails and spinners. Meal worms and trout worms work just as well.
• They are biting sand worms and blood worms
• eels!
• eels
• Sandworm
• night crawlers, meal worms
• nightcrawlers, meal worms
• I use meal worms here, power bait, trout worms and lures. The fish bite here off almost everything.

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

• same old
• Minnows and Rapalas
• Golden shiner
• large shinners with a bobber
• Slow troll wife minnows,drifting on top
• medium size minnow on waited bobber.
• Drifting with live minnows
• small size minnow
• used smalls up to mommalukes.
• Drifting with a live minnow

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

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

• spiner .Rooster tail.
• White rooster tail
• White Rooster Tail
• Booyah spinnerbaits,Some crankbaits
• Blue/Green
• Phoebe and Rooster Tail
• White 3/8 Strike King

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.

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
• 1/4 oz chartruse n white

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

Dry Fly Check Prices

• Bait Details
• 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.
• 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.
• test
• 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
• Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig
• strike king shimm-e-stik
  baby bass color
• watermelon seed yum dinger
• watermelon yum dinger
• yum dinger watermelon
• Yamamotos Senko...green
  no luck on spinners and cranks
• zoom pumpkinseed
• spoom work well to.
• decided to throw some black yamamotos at these guys and they took it....

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• gulp

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

• Threw it close to the shore after spotting the bass and he immediately attacked it.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• #11 minnow rapala
• bbz-1 shad blue back herring color
• Rebel Crawfish Lure

Crankbait Check Prices

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

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

• fin-s
• weighted Sluggo
• berkley gulp(minnows)
• yellow
• white paddle tail
• Powerbait minnows Drop shot
• Keitech ayu
• keitech 4" AYU
• Pearl Suggos!
• silver slug-go sware by them

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly bugger, orange

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Just fished on a hook
• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• 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
• good cove for pan fish.. a few time's last year
• Euro Crawler so not as big fit on the hook nicely.the on i got was about 11" and 2/3 of a #
• used Euro crawlers,and trout worms.fished the bottom.got snagged a few times,lost tackel,,tipical....

Herring Check Prices

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• 2 inch, color gold and white

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• purple
• Spikes with gulp maggots

Other Check Prices

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