Fishing near Pawcatuck in New London County, CT

Check Prices

• Chartreuse Blonde
• t n w and squid rig
• I was using a mepps #2 silver blade and white dressing
• mummies
• keitech swing impact fat 4.8 ayu
• pearl strike king jerkbait
• pearl jerkbait
• live bait
• Northland Thumper chart-green, ~1/4 oz
• Squid

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• eel
• deadly dick
• eel/1 oz weight
• meal worms
• eel, frozen squid
• Sandworms and Squid
• live eals
• mussels on hook jigging
• Live lined eels, no weight
• Clams

Creature Check Prices

• Brush Hog in the pads

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

• Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
• large shiners

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..
• I only used topwater frogs, black buzz and some weedless ones that I picked up at bass pro. The 22" was cought on a light green weedless frog. One day I'll buy a scale...

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
• double hook rig either let it drift or sink it and jig
• sabikis

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

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

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

Terrestrial Check Prices

• Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

• red tube sandworm
• 5" Red/Black Senko
• texas riged power worm
• 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.
• blue black worm
• 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.

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
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo
• 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
• i was using a keitech 2" spider, and my partner was throwing there 4" worm. Both were working
• 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.

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
• Olive Flat wing deceiver, popper

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• yo zurry
• Plastic cricket
• floating Minnow

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

• Bright blue Shadow Rap Shad.
• KVD 1.5
• Strike king KVD bluegill 1.5
• shad rapala flat rap 10
• KVD 1.5 Bluegill
• strikeking 3xd in green shad
• 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.
• 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
• war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
• green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
• little stanley 1/4 round head jig with black paca craw
• i used a jig and wacky worm.
• my regular watermelon red flake
• 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

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

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

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
• 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.
• Silver Diamond Jigs

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

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

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