Fishing near New London in New London County, CT

3.5 Rating based on 145 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Striped Bass, Largemouth Bass, Scup (Porgy), Blackfish, Bluefish, Other (Saltwater)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 89
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 245
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ferry to oriant point near New London

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Top Fishing Spots near New London

Thames River
Thames River

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Brandegee Lake
Brandegee Lake

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Dodge Pond
Dodge Pond

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Latimer Brook
Latimer Brook

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Gorton Pond
Gorton Pond

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Smith Pond
Smith Pond

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New London Area Fish Species

Recent New London Fishing Reports

saltwater Fishing Report Mar 06, 2009

saltwater

new london ct -

fishingfor difernt variety of fish...

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avery point Fishing Report Aug 18, 2012

avery point

avery point, groton ct -

went to avery point and used squid for bait. i was fishin for porgys, and caught a pretty nice one about ten inches. i had a rough time with the small...

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Another Nov Blackfish trip Fishing Report Nov 15, 2008

Another Nov Blackfish trip

Eastern L.I. Sound -

Headed out again in search of togs with a couple buddies Matt and Bob. Got a late start on the water by 10:30 with a Perigee tide at High. The air te...

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Fluke fishing Fishing Report Jul 25, 2009

Fluke fishing

New London Drifted From ocean beach to past Harkness -

Pretty good trip. 1 fluke over 5 lbs. and the other keeper about 3 1/2 lbs. ...

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Tog Fishing in November Fishing Report Nov 10, 2008

Tog Fishing in November

Eastern L.I. Sound -

Headed out with a Buddy with a bucket of green crabs, on a cool breezy November day. We managed to catch some nice fish. Fish were in shallow water 10...

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1st. Salt Water Fishing rip Fishing Report Jan 03, 2009

1st. Salt Water Fishing rip

Thames River, South side of Fishers Island -

Put in the Thames River under the Gold Star Bridge on the East side of river....

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Baits and Tackle used near New London

Check Prices

  • live bait
  • Squid
  • sea robin
  • eel
  • live sand worms
  • live worms
  • little cleo silver spoon 1/8th
  • spearing squid strip
  • white and silver rooster tail
  • t n w and squid rig

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

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.

Creature Check Prices

  • Brush Hog in the pads
  • All were caught on a Brush Hog plastic.
  • Switched to the watermelon seed baby brush hawg

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
  • large shiners
  • Shiners and chicken liver fished on the bottom.
  • Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
  • Mummies

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • white luck-e-strike 110
  • I used a 5" White Jerk Shad on a 1/4 white jig head.

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • silver and orange fly from a kit from walmart.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Thomas double spinner w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt
  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

Squid Check Prices

  • put a sinker on it and dropped it to the bottom
  • frozen squid
  • sabikis
  • Spinner rigs with colored beads and buck tail fished along the bottom with a squid strip and spearing added
  • 4 oz

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

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 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.
  • white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white
  • small spinners and very small rapala's
  • spearing/sqid
  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer
  • Thomas spinner
  • yellow rooster tail 1/8th
  • Thomas Spinner
  • Thomas single blade gold spinner.
  • I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.

Dry Fly Check Prices

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

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

Terrestrial Check Prices

  • Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

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.

Worm Check Prices

  • BPS stick-o-worm 5 inch in watermelon red flake.
  • 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.
  • same bps worm
  • using the sinko melon with gold flake
  • watermelon gold flake
  • used both watermelon and green pumpkin
  • 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.
  • Watermelon senco,5"

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

  • deadly dick,hopkins
  • deadly dick

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM
  • Platium Blonde 1/0 and olive flatwing deceiver 1/0
  • Flatwing Deceiver
  • Moby Worm
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tube & Worm
  • Chatter bait, minnow/spinner
  • 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

  • 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.
  • Bright blue Shadow Rap Shad.
  • KVD 1.5
  • shad rapala flat rap 10
  • Strike king KVD bluegill 1.5
  • KVD 1.5 Bluegill
  • strikeking 3xd in green shad
  • THE Matzuo
  • Chubby Bluegill crankbait
  • Chubby bluegill crankbait

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • i was using a 4.8 inch fat swing impact
  • 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
  • Pearl Suggos!
  • keitech 4" AYU
  • Keitech ayu

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • purple and white fly to immitate bait fish
  • Wolly bugger, orange

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.

Herring Check Prices

  • Fresh Chunked Herring
  • Chunks of Atlantic menhaden

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

  • Used the classic worm and a bobber...werent expecting to catch anything big, and we didnt, but still a fun time.
  • Nightcrawler hooked weedless
  • 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

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • 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.
  • D DICK
  • Silver Diamond Jigs
  • Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • BLUE/WHITE POPPER
  • slow and steady retrieve

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

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

Other Check Prices

  • Live eel
  • crabs
  • greenies
  • blue crab!
  • chicken
  • blue crab on chicken
  • blue crab
  • big crab!
  • any thing works chunkbait, live bait, sand worms, squid strips , lures
  • Eels and squid

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