Fishing near Norwich in New London County, CT

Check Prices

• people were using meal worms and marshmelows to take small trout.
• blue fox#2 deep runners bright blue with white tail Berkely minnow perch patern
• threw berkely minnows perch patern, Suspending Rapala Perch patern , Grub jigs
• Grey/White Super-fluke with 1/8-1/4 oz jig head
• Same as every one else but should have been using a larger
  jig head maybe 1 oz, current was ripping and noticed people bumping the bottom to hook up
• 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.
• Bass caught on plastic cricket, pike caught on small blue/silver Phoebe
• Gold/Silver Spoon and Berkley Artificial Minnow/Smelt,
  
  2 Pickerel (1 ~14"), 3 Crapie, 1 Trout, 1 Chub, 1 Bluegill
• white and silver rooster tail
• All my fish were caught on a texas rigged Gary Yamamoto Stretch 40 worm in green pumpkin with a 3/8 oz. bullet weight pegged on the front.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

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

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

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• white luck-e-strike 110
• 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.

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

Frog Bait Check Prices

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.

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Green mini jerkbait 2-3 inches long caught most of the fish but no bass.
• Rapala slash bait
• others at this pond using gold fish,trout bait and worms
• white x-rap

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• yellow rooster tail 1/8th
• Thomas spinner
• mepps #4 silver and white trailer
• white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white
• Thomas Spinner
• grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
• small spinners and very small rapala's
• 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.
• spearing/sqid
• Black/white spin-fly

Dry Fly Check Prices

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

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

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

• Wacky worming any watermellon 5" sinko
• 5" wacky worm
• wacky rigged 5" worm
• 5" yum dinger
• today the melons were not the ticket, got two on black blue, and two more on the purple pink shad
• blue black worm
• wacky rigged watermelon dinger
• Berkley - rubber worm w/ transparent sparkles
• 6" oxblood Roboworm
• drop shot wacky style red black senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Plastic sluggo worm

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

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

• deadly dick,hopkins
• deadly dick

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

• Green/brown d-bomb with a 1/2oz weight and 5/0 wide gap hook
• yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

• Moby Worm
• Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM
• Flatwing Deceiver
• Platium Blonde 1/0 and olive flatwing deceiver 1/0
• Flies- Platinum Blonde 1/0, Gray white Flat wing Deceiver2/0 chartruese Closar 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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

• THE Matzuo
• Chubby Bluegill crankbait
• Chubby bluegill crankbait
• strikeking 3xd in green shad
• 4" jerkbait silver-black back
• KVD 1.5 Bluegill
• Rapala segmented shad
• rapalla balsa floating minnow w/berkely extruded night crawler added
• rapalla balsa floating minnow
• 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.

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
• dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?
• same as usual
• i was using a 4.8 inch fat swing impact
• keitech 4" AYU
• Keitech ayu
• Pearl Suggos!

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

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

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
• Rapalas and Nightcrawlers

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

• Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)
• 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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• BLUE/WHITE POPPER
• slow and steady retrieve

Blade Bait Check Prices

Grub 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
• blue crab!
• chicken
• blue crab on chicken
• crabs
• greenies
• blue crab
• big crab!
• meal worms
• mealworm