Fishing near Southwood Acres in Hartford County, CT

3.52 Rating based on 152 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, American Shad, Brook Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 115
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 223
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river smallie near Southwood Acres

river smallie

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16lb Carp near Southwood Acres

16lb Carp

large Carp
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1st catch near Southwood Acres

1st catch

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Baby Striper 16inch
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Top Fishing Spots near Southwood Acres

Scantic-powder Hollow
Scantic-powder Hollow

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190 Bridge
190 Bridge

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Thompsonville Boat Launch
Thompsonville Boat Launch

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Somersville Pond
Somersville Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 2726

Long Meadow Cove
Long Meadow Cove

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Crescent Lake
Crescent Lake

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Southwood Acres Area Fish Species

Recent Southwood Acres Fishing Reports

Smallies Fishing Report May 26, 2011

Smallies

CT River -

caught two nice smallies around Kings Island off the Ct river...nothing spectacular but enough to say...fish on...

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T ville launch Fishing Report Jun 15, 2009

T ville launch

THOMPSONVILLE CT -

recosby and I went to the t ville launch after work This launch is in enfield ct I used my fishing pole, some line and a crank bait with 2 hooks. I t...

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CATCHING CARP Fishing Report Mar 26, 2009

CATCHING CARP

THOMPSONVILLE CT -

WE ROLLED DOWN TO THIS 25 FOOT WALL ALONG THE CT RIVER...

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Carp trip 09 Fishing Report Jun 01, 2009

Carp trip 09

THOMPSONVILLE CT -

PL and I went down to the wall in T ville to get some Carp
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The Ct river Windsor Locks during the Tornado Fishing Report Jun 19, 2011

The Ct river Windsor Locks during the Tornado

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I took my friend Ron striper fishing on the river and landed one just about when the tornado was hitting Springfield..the video is crazy but funny..

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Baby Striper on the Bridge Fishing Report May 15, 2011

Baby Striper on the Bridge

CT river -

Used a white 7" sluggo to catch this baby under the bridge...

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Baits and Tackle used near Southwood Acres

Check Prices

  • mixed color senkos
  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • berkley power bait trout nugget
  • Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
  • if you know stripers then you should know what bait
  • minnow live
  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • Flies and Jigs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • eel
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
  • Nightcrallers & worms
  • They are biting sand worms and blood worms
  • eels!
  • eels
  • Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble
  • Meal worm
    Lures
    Powerbait

Minnow Check Prices

  • large shinners with a bobber
  • same old
  • tip ups
  • 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Lunker city Salad Spoon
  • Popper, Color Gold and black
  • Popper
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Rubber frog
  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Live Target Brown Mouse

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • White 3/8 Strike King
  • White rooster tail
  • White Rooster Tail
  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • Phoebe and Rooster Tail

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala Original
  • Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
  • White and Red stick bait
  • Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
  • Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
  • 4 inch Senco green pumpkin

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • Bait Details
  • test

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • rooster tail
  • little rooster
  • black Rooster tail
  • blue fox
  • meppes
  • Phoebe
  • and corn
  • Rooster Tail
  • white tailed

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

  • black senko
  • yum dinger watermelon
  • watermelon yum dinger
  • watermelon seed yum dinger
  • senko
  • Yamamotos Senko...green
    no luck on spinners and cranks
  • decided to throw some black yamamotos at these guys and they took it....
  • buck tail jig with a Berkeley worm
  • weedless bucktail with a berkley worm
  • trigger x swimming worm rigged

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • gulp
  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
  • Most were caught on a Trout Magnet . 1 on a Rapala and the other on aRooster Tail . Largest fish was the Last one caught . Trout magnet was the right bait to yse today.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • litle plastic minnows
  • small swimming minnow soft bait
  • Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
  • Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
  • Gulp Alive
  • Kastmaster
  • Kastmaster lure, heavy top water hits

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap
  • bbz-1 shad blue back herring color

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • nofish but I know they're here sometimes
  • spinner bait
    yamos
    crankbaits
  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
  • booya crankbaits brown and green
  • hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
  • rattletrap
  • Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
  • spook
  • spooks
  • Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • white paddle tail
  • yellow
  • weighted Sluggo
  • fin-s

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • red craw by bill lewis
  • clacking rap

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • just night crawlers on small hooks
  • little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
  • peice of nightcrawler on a hook
  • Trout worn with a single split shop weight
  • 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
  • Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
  • Just fished on a hook
  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • 2 inch, color gold and white

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Live Baits Check Prices

  • eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • purple
  • Trout Magnet Jig
  • Trout Magnet Jigs
  • Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
    One Brook Trout and one Rainbow.
  • Trout Magnet
  • Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body

Other Check Prices

  • YELLOW GRUB
    WEIGHTS
    BIG HOOKS
  • We use #2 hooks with leaders and tie them to our line
    A 3 oz weight to hold it on the bottom
  • rainbow or green powerbait
  • Chicken Liver
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • hot dog dipped in Anise oil
  • eel
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Corn and Garlic

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