Fishing near Stafford Springs in Tolland County, CT

Check Prices

• berkley power bait trout nugget
• Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
• Just a worm on a size 2 hook.
• shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
• Flies and Jigs
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait
• 5 Keepers:
  2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  2 shorts
• 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
• mixed color senkos
• variety

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• eel
• They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
• Big shiners
• They are biting sand worms and blood worms
• Nightcrallers & worms
• Hand size Kivas

Creature Check Prices

• zoom brush hawg pumpkin
• Carolina Rig

Tube Check Prices

• drop shots and topwater

Minnow Check Prices

• 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.
• tip ups
• large shinners with a bobber
• Med Shiners
  Wish we had gotten some larger ones
• you play the bait and bobber set up similar to the canal at the cape.I set the bait at about 24-27",sent it up curent and let it pass you reel it back and repeat.
• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• same old

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Lunker city Salad Spoon
• Popper
• Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass
  
  
• Popper, Color Gold and black
• Live Target Brown Mouse
• Z-Man Hard Legs Frog

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

• spinnerbait , plastic worms
• White 3/8 Strike King
• 2lber on Spinnerbait
  10" on drop shot
• Calm 8 am small pond nice fish

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• others at this pond using gold fish,trout bait and worms
• White and Red stick bait
• Rapala Original
• Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
• Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
• Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Phoebe
• Rooster Tail
• little rooster
• rooster tail
• black Rooster tail
• blue fox
• meppes
• grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner

Dry Fly Check Prices

• Bait Details

Nymph Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Yamamoto black Senko
• green pumpkin senko
• black senko
• weedless bucktail with a berkley worm
• buck tail jig with a Berkeley worm
• trigger x swimming worm rigged
• Senko Worm
• Used Green senkos and tiger cranks
• I usually use my jitterbug and Yamamoto sinkos/hula grub here...its solid every time
• Yama Senko in 5" and Watermelon

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Surprised I only got one today!
• Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
• 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
• Drop shot
• Dropshot
• 11" Drop Shot
  11-3/4" Carolina Rig
• Drop Shot, and Shakey Head

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Gulp Alive
• small swimming minnow soft bait
• Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
• Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
• litle plastic minnows
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• 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.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• ratl trap
• bbz-1 shad blue back herring color
• First cast and I had one.

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

• Booyah tiger
• just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
• hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
• spinner bait
  yamos
  crankbaits
• nofish but I know they're here sometimes
• booya crankbaits brown and green
• Daiwa Peanut...my favorite because of the action, the way it feels, and because I can cast it pretty far if I need to.
• two small bass, (one was 11") and a pickerel (about 15", didn't measure, just a guess)
• http://www.ctfishfinder.com/view_photo_details.php?id=19551&pid=21
• crankbaits and spinners

Bass Jig Check Prices

• white and blue,fishing mud line
• 4-1/4lb on a jig
  3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
  two 1lbers on buzzbait
  
• 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
• blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot
• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
• white paddle tail
• yellow
• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• weighted Sluggo
• fin-s

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• 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.
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
• Trout worn with a single split shop weight

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• red craw by bill lewis

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

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

• powerbait yellow
• rainbow or green powerbait
• 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
• Powerbait rainbow
• Chicken Liver
• Rainbow Powerbait
• Big
  Dead
  
• Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
• Garlic
  Garlic with Corn