Fishing near Rocky Hill in Hartford County, CT

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• Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
• minnow live
• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait
• Surface lure after sunset.
• Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
• was fishing for trout
  Rig:
  barrel swivel
  leader
  red hook
  power bait marshmallows
  meal worm
• mixed color senkos
• variety
• shad trolling rig by 9ers rigs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

• misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown
• D Bomb, greenish brown
• Switched to the watermelon seed baby brush hawg
• All were caught on a Brush Hog plastic.

Minnow Check Prices

• same old
• Minnows and Rapalas
• Golden shiner
• large shinners with a bobber
• Mummies
• tip ups

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 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.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• spiner .Rooster tail.
• White rooster tail
• White Rooster Tail
• Thomas double spinner w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt

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

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
• Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
• 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
• Green mini jerkbait 2-3 inches long caught most of the fish but no bass.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• and corn
• Caught using a rooster tail. Snagged it in the neck, so were not sure if it was actually interested in the lure.
• blue fox
• Black/white spin-fly
• little rooster
• black Rooster tail
• rooster tail
• I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.
• Thomas single blade gold spinner.
• Phoebe

Dry Fly Check Prices

• 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.
• Bait Details
• test

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

Terrestrial Check Prices

• Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

• strike king shimm-e-stik
  baby bass color
• 4" Watermelon Senko
• watermelon seed yum dinger
• watermelon yum dinger
• yum dinger watermelon
• Soft plastic worms Texas Rigged weedless....bullet sinker a plus, as this was VERY vegetated...the bullet sinker helped the bait cut through just about all the veg.
• decided to throw some black yamamotos at these guys and they took it....
• Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig
• Used Green senkos and tiger cranks
• I usually use my jitterbug and Yamamoto sinkos/hula grub here...its solid every time

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• gulp
• 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.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Scum Frogs
• Sandworms
• Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
• Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
• Kastmaster
• Kastmaster lure, heavy top water hits
• Buzz bait (black blade & black skirt)
• small swimming minnow soft bait
• litle plastic minnows
• Power Worm, Phoebe

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• Yozuri
• Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.
• 4" floating minnow
• spooks
• spook
• Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
• rattletrap
• Rapala blue crankbait
• booya crankbaits brown and green
• kvd

Bass Jig Check Prices

• white and blue,fishing mud line
• Stanley 1/4 oz jig head and net bait paca chunk in black trailer.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• fin-s
• weighted Sluggo
• berkley gulp(minnows)
• yellow
• white paddle tail
• Keitech ayu
• keitech 4" AYU
• Pearl Suggos!

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly bugger, orange

Lake Pattern Check Prices

• Drop shot and finesse worms

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Just fished on a hook
• Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
• ok i have caught fish here with everything lures, shiners, night crawlers and i have even caught LMB with sunfish that i had caught on the worm initially. In fact when i realized that a huge bass was hitting my sunfish and the hook was too small to catch it, i rigged a bigger hook threw the fish back out and pulled in a 5-7lb bass. It was the 5th fat bass for summer 2009
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
• wiggler
• Trout worn with a single split shop weight
• good cove for pan fish.. a few time's last year

Herring Check Prices

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• baby bass color fast retrieve with sharp jerks
• red craw by bill lewis
• Blaze Rattle Baits (Aqua/Chartreuse Belly and Firetiger)
• 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

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.

Live Baits Check Prices

• eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• corn
• Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.
• eel
• hot dog dipped in Anise oil
• i used yellow power bait
• Mealworm
• yellow power bait
• meal worms
• mealworm
• YELLOW GRUB
  WEIGHTS
  BIG HOOKS