Fishing near Plainfield Village in Windham County, CT

3.43 Rating based on 232 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Striped Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Sunfish, Yellow Perch
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 139
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 261
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Plainfield Village Fishing Photos

Quinebaug River  near Plainfield Village

Quinebaug River

the bridge has a turnoff that i have not seen on any map. if heading E on buttsbrige rd it is after the bridge on the right.
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Butts Bridge Rd Access near Plainfield Village

Butts Bridge Rd Access

Butts Bridge Rd access to launch area.
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Arbor RD boat ramp near Plainfield Village

Arbor RD boat ramp

Looking down the ramp off Arbor RD in Griswold
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Arbor Rd boat launch near Plainfield Village

Arbor Rd boat launch

panoramic from arbor rd boat launch looking west.
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Plainfield Village fishing photo 4

Looking SSW from picnic area off RT201 10/9/11 8:33AM
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Top Fishing Spots near Plainfield Village

Moosup River
Moosup River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
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Aspinook Pond
Aspinook Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 7137

Hopeville Pond
Hopeville Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5899

Ashland Pond
Ashland Pond

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
Views: 5877

Pachaug River
Pachaug River

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 2919

Pachaug Pond
Pachaug Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.5
# Reviews: 4
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Plainfield Village Area Fish Species

Recent Plainfield Village Fishing Reports

Canterbury slam jam Fishing Report May 21, 2013

Canterbury slam jam

Packer Pond, Quinabauge river -

Fishing all my hot spots ...

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quinbog float Fishing Report May 06, 2012

quinbog float

Took my dad for a float down the river today, and things were nice. It was overcast but the sun did peak out of the clouds many times during our 6 ho...

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UP THE RIVER AGAIN Fishing Report Sep 08, 2012

UP THE RIVER AGAIN

Quinebaug River -

Launched today at the rt14 bridge on the quini. Again i headed upstream, due to not having another chase car to bring me back. Its nice the river is...

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Quinebaug River  Fishing Report Mar 18, 2012

Quinebaug River

Quinebaug River -

we did a float down the river and got out at the butts bridge road, bridge. Fishing the takeout i got a 3lbLMB and is a great place to go. The float...

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kitt brook adventure Fishing Report May 11, 2012

kitt brook adventure

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Took a road trip to check out the rivers and brooks in the area. Most were small but we expected a little better flow due to the large amount of rain...

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Its my Honey Hole Fishing Report May 27, 2009

Its my Honey Hole

Cantabury ct -

Sweet little pond for the kids and a quick stop on the way home...

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Baits and Tackle used near Plainfield Village

Check Prices

  • Live Bluegill
  • Northland Thumper chart-green, ~1/4 oz
  • 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.
  • blue fox#2 deep runners bright blue with white tail Berkely minnow perch patern
  • people were using meal worms and marshmelows to take small trout.
  • threw berkely minnows perch patern, Suspending Rapala Perch patern , Grub jigs
  • Just a worm on a size 2 hook.
  • pearl jerkbait
  • pearl strike king jerkbait
  • keitech swing impact fat 4.8 ayu

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • meal worms
  • eel
  • eel/1 oz weight
  • deadly dick

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.
  • Fishing bass tube along weed edges and downed trees.

Creature Check Prices

  • Brush Hog in the pads
  • zoom brush hawg pumpkin
  • used baby brush hog
  • 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish

Minnow Check Prices

  • 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
  • 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
  • big dead goldies
  • mediums
  • tip ups

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..
  • 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
  • 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

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • silver and orange fly from a kit from walmart.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
  • Thomas double spinner w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
    11-1/2" Short
    1lber culled
    Limit was:
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 7oz
    1-1/4lbs
    1lb 1oz
    1lber

Frog Bait Check Prices

Streamer Check Prices

  • freshwater fly to immitate a bait fish, colors i used were yellow, purple, and blue

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • on the teaser
  • gulp shrimp

Nymph Check Prices

Terrestrial Check Prices

  • Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

  • yum dinger 5" watermelon seed
  • landed the 2.10 on a 5 inch worm lost the monster while swimming a jig
  • using bass pro shops worms that i just picked up and they hold up a lot better than the garys.
  • tried the 5" green pumpkin worm today, vise my regular watermelon and it worked well.
  • today the melons were not the ticket, got two on black blue, and two more on the purple pink shad
  • 5" yum dinger
  • wacky rigged 5" worm
  • 5" wacky worm
  • Had the worms hooked weedless and just casted into the lilly pads and we kept bringing them in.
  • Wacky worming any watermellon 5" sinko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • carolina rig
  • Powerbait 7" plastic worms

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Jerkbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Drop Shot
  • 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
  • Dropshot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo
  • 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.
  • gulp
  • 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

  • deadly dick

Craw Check Prices

  • yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology
  • Green/brown d-bomb with a 1/2oz weight and 5/0 wide gap hook
  • weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • I used powerbait rubber worms.
  • Chatter bait, minnow/spinner
  • Swimming plug
  • White Sassy shad
  • 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • Moby Worm

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Rapala segmented shad
  • 4" jerkbait silver-black back
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow
  • 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow w/berkely extruded night crawler added
  • THE Matzuo
  • strikeking 3xd in green shad
  • KVD 1.5 Bluegill
  • Strike king KVD bluegill 1.5
  • shad rapala flat rap 10

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • i used a jig and wacky worm.
  • blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
  • blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer
  • green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
  • war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
  • chili immage skirt and watermelon red yum beaver tail
  • little stanley 1/4 round head jig with black paca craw
  • green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • same as usual
  • Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
  • dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?
  • Corn Yellow Powerbait
  • Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos

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.

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

  • 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
  • Just had the crawler on the bottem. Had the hook about 1 foot above the sinker, so the sinker got the weeds instead of the hook.
  • Nightcrawler hooked weedless
  • Used the classic worm and a bobber...werent expecting to catch anything big, and we didnt, but still a fun time.

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

  • powerbait yellow
  • Live eel

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