Fishing near Putnam District in Windham County, CT

Check Prices

• Tube
• nuts berries vegetation of all natures and LIVE GAME !
• one 1-1/2 lber and 3 other all around a pound
• Rattle trap
• White Nichols spinnerbait w/ white grub trailer
• shiners nightcrawlers and meal worms
• Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
• Just a worm on a size 2 hook.
• 4 " Senkos black blue flake drop shot and Road Kill Bass Pro style Senko. We tried many different colors and baits but most of our fish came on these two colors.
• Shiner hooded beside dorsal fin.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Hand size Kivas
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Shiinners
• Medium sized Frog
• Perfect size Kivas
• Medium to small sized frogs seem to work the best but ive even caught pike and largemouth off of a full grown frog sink em or let em swim on top either way works very effectivly
• Chung's Best
• Big shiners

Creature Check Prices

• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• Carolina Rig
• zoom brush hawg pumpkin
• used baby brush hog

Tube Check Prices

• drop shots and topwater
• 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

• big dead goldies
• mediums
• medeim to large shiners and never thought nightcrawlers would work through the ice but i ended up with a crappie and a perch while jigging one just waitin for my flags
• Med Shiners
  Wish we had gotten some larger ones
• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• Some guy bought some live shiners at Big O's and left us with a few. This one was about 3" long and brought in a 10" perch.
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies
• We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
• live bait old school

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
• Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..
• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day

Lizard Check Prices

• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Again Dat food( shrimplies and gold) and feed corn were present. We also tried a packbait of Limeycarper, as well as bread, strawberry canned corn, and luncheon meat.
  
  

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
  11-1/2" Short
  1lber culled
  Limit was:
  1-1/2lbs
  1lb 7oz
  1-1/4lbs
  1lb 1oz
  1lber
• 2lber on Spinnerbait
  10" on drop shot
• My 3 Fish Limit was:
  1lb 11oz
  1lb 4oz
  14oz
  
  4 Shorts too
  
• Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
• Fast retrieve
• spinner, silver with red trim
• rooster tail spinner
• yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

• others at this pond using gold fish,trout bait and worms
• Rapala slash bait
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 6" and 8" on inline spinner
• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner
• grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
• Thomas Spinner
• yellow rooster tail 1/8th
• Thomas spinner
• mepps #4 silver and white trailer
• Phoebe

Nymph Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Yamamoto sinkos
• Had the worms hooked weedless and just casted into the lilly pads and we kept bringing them in.
• red shad powerworm
• red shad pwer worm
• using 6" senko green pumpkin
• Shakey Head
  My Biggest 2 Largemouth of the day were 2lbs 5oz, and 1lb 14oz - Most of the others were in the 1-1/4lb to 1-1/2lb range
• 4in Senko - Caught this calico during the tourney too.
• 4in Senko - These were the other three of my limit:
  3rd - 17in 2lb 1oz
  4th and 5th 13in 1lb'ers
• Shakey Head
  Both Smallies were 1lb
• Shakey Head

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• 1lb 10oz was the only one to make the limit.
  
  1lb 6oz, 1-1/4lber culled out
  
  a couple other 1-1/4lb to 1lbers, and some shorts

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Drop Shot
• 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
• Dropshot
• Drop Shot, and Shakey Head
• 11" Drop Shot
  11-3/4" Carolina Rig
• Drop shot
• 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
• 2-1/4lber was my best
  Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
• All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
• 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
  the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
• Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
• Rooster tail
• I used powerbait rubber worms.

Craw Check Prices

• yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• First cast and I had one.
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

Jigs Check Prices

• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...

Crankbait Check Prices

• crankbaits and spinners
• Squarebill, and dropshot
• Booyah tiger
• 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
• Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
• Rapala segmented shad
• 4" jerkbait silver-black back
• rapalla balsa floating minnow
• THE Matzuo
• 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,

Bass Jig Check Prices

• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer
• All on a swimjig
  
  My 9.75lb Limit was:
  2lbs 11oz
  2lbs 2oz
  2lbs 1oz
  1lb 8oz
  1lb 6oz
  
  5 more in the 1-1/4lb to 3/4lb range
• 4-1/4lb on a jig
  3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
  two 1lbers on buzzbait
  
• i used a jig and wacky worm.
• blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
• Corn Yellow Powerbait
• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• 4"senko
• texas rigged senko
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• i was using a 1.5 inch eppinger spoon in orange with black dots.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• 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.
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
• night crawler on a rattling bobber lol
• 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 :)
• one huge cold nightcrawler

Lipless Bait Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

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
• Inline Spinner, Dropshot
  one 6" and 4 other between 10" ans 11" Smallies
• Again the Dat food boilie line really worked well here. Shrimplies(shrimp) and gold( pineapple) performed above my expectations. Feed corn was of course also on the menu and produced a few good runs.
• Bait for carp: (which are the only fish I am coun ting for here)
  Chum the night before with a mix of Maize and oat/bran/grits method/ground bait
  
  Hook bait was maize on a hair with tutty-fruity or molasses glug, or maize or corn-pops on the hook with a oat/bran/grits pack bait
  
  Bait for sunnies/bluegills/etc:
  Meal worms, canned corn, bread
  
  Many were caught as part of the event but I did not keep a tally.
  
• Maize has been my bait of choice, followed closely by maple peas and an oat based pack bait.
  
  Molasses and maple have been strong producing flavors for me this early on..latter this will change to more fruit and maybe even a fish/blood as the water warms.
• This was our trial run weekend for a new line of boilies my friends and I have been working on from the Blackstone Carp videos. Dat Food Boilies ( we used 3 types Shrimplies(shrimp), Gold(pineapple)and Pop-ups). I won't give the recipe on these as it has taken me quite some time to put a truly good boilie together. I will, on request, give out some more basic boilie recipes to get people started though.
  
  Also Feed corn was on the menu and did produce a fish or two.
• Our bucket contained once again
  feed corn, maple peas, dat food and chick peas.
  
  Sadly on this outing nothing really produced with a few Crucian carp grabbing anything they could.
  
  
• Feed corn and Dat food are always on the menu now. Maple peas have made their way back as well. We had a batch of Anise and fruit ( see the tutorial on bait in the forums or at www.blackstonecarp.com) and some of the Dat food dough un boiled. Dat food seemed to be the bait of choice with maples coming in just behind.
• We have been using primarily feed corn, soaked for at least 24 hours then boiled for 1 hour till it is a firm but chewable texture. Molasses and fishy flavors have been the producing choices.
  
  We have also been using a grits based pack bait, with some results.
  
  
  
  Pre-feeding will produce better results typically
  
  
• Canned sweet corn, White bread work well here as well as all manner of dough baits and boilies.