Fishing near Plainville in Hartford County, CT

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• Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
• was fishing for trout
  Rig:
  barrel swivel
  leader
  red hook
  power bait marshmallows
  meal worm
• Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
• Surface lure after sunset.
• minnow live
• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait
• mixed color senkos
• Drifting
• decent spot, watch for shallow rocks, about 10 to 12 feet beyond the point, very acessable with a canoe

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• you should be able to use almost anything here. I perfer rooster tails and spinners. Meal worms and trout worms work just as well.
• eel
• They are biting sand worms and blood worms
• Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble
• I use meal worms here, power bait, trout worms and lures. The fish bite here off almost everything.
• eels!
• power bait, live bait, lures
• eels
• Sandworm
• night crawlers, meal worms

Creature Check Prices

• D Bomb, greenish brown
• misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown

Minnow Check Prices

• same old
• Minnows and Rapalas
• Slow troll wife minnows,drifting on top
• Drifting
• medium size minnow on waited bobber.
• small size minnow
• used smalls up to mommalukes.
• Drifting with live minnows
• Golden shiner
• Drifting with a live minnow

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Rubber frog
• Popper, Color Gold and black
• spook style bait

Lizard Check Prices

• 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard
• 1/4 oz c rig lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• I used a 5" White Jerk Shad on a 1/4 white jig head.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• spiner .Rooster tail.
• Booyah spinnerbaits,Some crankbaits
• Blue/Green
• White rooster tail
• Phoebe and Rooster Tail
• White Rooster Tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Black and Red Rubber Frog
• usually top water baits invoke strikes over here. senkos and fin-s type baits work well too but only before the big milfoil bloom. after that they get so bogged down with weeds the fish cant even get at them.

Streamer Check Prices

• 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 and Red stick bait
• Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
• Rapala Original
• 1/4 oz chartruse n white
• Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
• 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
• Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• and corn
• rainbow phoebe
• blue fox
• Caught using a rooster tail. Snagged it in the neck, so were not sure if it was actually interested in the lure.
• black Rooster tail
• little rooster
• rooster tail
• Rubber worms, Mepps,Blue Fox Vibrax,Spinnerbait
• Black/white spin-fly
• I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.

Dry Fly Check Prices

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

Nymph Check Prices

• A cross between a pheasant tail and a copper jack.
• Green bh nymph
• Green nymphs worked well.
  
  Also had luck with white streamers, muddler minnows, and zonkers.
• Nymphs, muddler minnows, and black ghosts all returned results

Worm Check Prices

• 4" Watermelon Senko
• Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig
• strike king shimm-e-stik
  baby bass color
• zoom pumpkinseed
• yum dinger watermelon
• watermelon yum dinger
• watermelon seed yum dinger
• Yamamotos Senko...green
  no luck on spinners and cranks
• spoom work well to.
• Zoom green Weenie

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• jig heads and swim baits
• SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD
• Senco stretch 40
• Plastic sluggo worm
• jig heads / swim tails

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Kastmaster lure, heavy top water hits
• Kastmaster
• Scum Frogs
• Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
• Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
• Sandworms
• Buzz bait (black blade & black skirt)
• Lucky Craft, American shad pointer 4 inch
• litle plastic minnows
• Power Worm, Phoebe

Craw Check Prices

• Threw it close to the shore after spotting the bass and he immediately attacked it.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• #11 minnow rapala
• bbz-1 shad blue back herring color
• Rebel Crawfish Lure

Crankbait Check Prices

• Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.
• Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
• rattletrap
• spook
• spooks
• 4" floating minnow
• Yozuri
• Rapala blue crankbait
• Baby Bass
• rapala lipless baby bass

Bass Jig Check Prices

• white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• berkley gulp(minnows)
• fin-s
• weighted Sluggo
• yellow
• white paddle tail
• Powerbait minnows Drop shot
• silver slug-go sware by them

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly bugger, orange

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
• Just fished on a hook
• good cove for pan fish.. a few time's last year
• Euro Crawler so not as big fit on the hook nicely.the on i got was about 11" and 2/3 of a #
• used Euro crawlers,and trout worms.fished the bottom.got snagged a few times,lost tackel,,tipical....
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
• wiggler

Herring Check Prices

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• baby bass color fast retrieve with sharp jerks
• red craw by bill lewis
• clacking rap

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• 2 inch, color gold and white

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Mepps Comet 1
• Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish
• purple rooster tail & live minnows

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Grub Check Prices

• grubs,meal worms said fishing was hot last couple of days.
• curly tail grub just slowly dragging

Live Baits Check Prices

• eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• purple

Other Check Prices

• i used yellow power bait
• hot dog dipped in Anise oil
• eel
• Mealworm
• Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.
• corn
• yellow power bait