Fishing near Oxoboxo River in New London County, CT

Check Prices

• white and silver rooster tail
• little cleo silver spoon 1/8th
• 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
• Grey/White Super-fluke with 1/8-1/4 oz jig head
• Thomas double spinner w/a little bit'o Berkley Gulp! Extruded Nightcrawler then w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt
• 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
• threw berkely minnows perch patern, Suspending Rapala Perch patern , Grub jigs
• 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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

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

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.

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
• Golden shiner
• Minnows and Rapalas
• 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

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

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

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 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.
• small spinners and very small rapala's
• yellow rooster tail 1/8th
• mepps #4 silver and white trailer
• Thomas spinner
• spearing/sqid
• 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

• strips
• braid jig shiners squid strips
• skate
• gulp
• on the teaser
• squid
• gulp shrimp
• 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

• on the fast retrieve after looking for bass, the chain picks were killing it as i ran it in for another cast.
• used a t-rigged 5" sinko
• i use the keitech ayu worms and a regular green with gold fleck sinko
• using the sinko melon with gold flake
• drop shot wacky style red black senko
• soft plastic worm, rigged weedless, purple with blue flecks in it
• blue black worm
• Watermelon senco,5"
• black blue worm
• wacky rigged watermelon dinger

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.
• 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
• 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
• gulp

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

• deadly dick,hopkins
• deadly dick

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

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
• Flies- Platinum Blonde 1/0, Gray white Flat wing Deceiver2/0 chartruese Closar 1/0
• 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
• Epoxy Bay Anchovie Pattern Size 2
• Sight casting to stripers on the flats off Garniers Island Ny

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• floating Minnow
• Plastic cricket
• yo zurry

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

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
• blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
• green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
• war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
• i used a jig and wacky worm.
• Stanley 1/4 oz jig head and net bait paca chunk in black trailer.
• blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?
• Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
• 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

• 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

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

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

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

Other Check Prices

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