Fishing near Storrs in Tolland County, CT

Check Prices

• Just a worm on a size 2 hook.
• Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
• berkley power bait trout nugget
• variety
• Bass caught on plastic cricket, pike caught on small blue/silver Phoebe
• Gold/Silver Spoon and Berkley Artificial Minnow/Smelt,
  
  2 Pickerel (1 ~14"), 3 Crapie, 1 Trout, 1 Chub, 1 Bluegill
• All my fish were caught on a texas rigged Gary Yamamoto Stretch 40 worm in green pumpkin with a 3/8 oz. bullet weight pegged on the front.
• blue fox#2 deep runners bright blue with white tail Berkely minnow perch patern
• people were using meal worms and marshmelows to take small trout.
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

• zoom brush hawg pumpkin
• Switched to the watermelon seed baby brush hawg
• Brush Hog in the pads

Minnow Check Prices

• tip ups
• large shinners with a bobber
• 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.
• Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
• Golden shiner
• Shiners and chicken liver fished on the bottom.
• large shiners
• same old
• drifting minnows small weights right off the bottom and useing some rubber baits with lead jig heads bouncing them off the bottom
• Mummies

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Lunker city Salad Spoon
• Popper, Color Gold and black
• Popper

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• silver and orange fly from a kit from walmart.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
• Thomas double spinner w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt

Streamer Check Prices

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

• others at this pond using gold fish,trout bait and worms
• White and Red stick bait
• Green mini jerkbait 2-3 inches long caught most of the fish but no bass.
• Rapala slash bait
• Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
• Rapala Original

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Phoebe
• grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
• yellow rooster tail 1/8th
• Black/white spin-fly
• little rooster
• black Rooster tail
• and corn
• blue fox
• rooster tail
• Thomas Spinner

Dry Fly Check Prices

• 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.
• 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.

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

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

Terrestrial Check Prices

• Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

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

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

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.
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
• 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• small swimming minnow soft bait
• I used powerbait rubber worms.
• Chatter bait, minnow/spinner
• Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
• Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
• Sandworms

Craw Check Prices

• yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology
• Green/brown d-bomb with a 1/2oz weight and 5/0 wide gap hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

• hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
• Daiwa Peanut...my favorite because of the action, the way it feels, and because I can cast it pretty far if I need to.
• booya crankbaits brown and green
• 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
• Chubby bluegill crankbait
• Chubby Bluegill crankbait
• Booyah tiger
• THE Matzuo
• Yozuri

Bass Jig Check Prices

• blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer
• blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
• white and blue,fishing mud line
• i used a jig and wacky worm.
• Stanley 1/4 oz jig head and net bait paca chunk in black trailer.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
• Keitech ayu
• keitech 4" AYU
• yellow
• white paddle tail
• fin-s
• weighted Sluggo
• Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
• dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?
• same as usual

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly bugger, orange
• purple and white fly to immitate bait fish

Lake Pattern Check Prices

• Drop shot and finesse worms

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

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
• Nightcrawler hooked weedless
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
• Used the classic worm and a bobber...werent expecting to catch anything big, and we didnt, but still a fun time.
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• Just fished on a hook
• Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
• 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.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Blaze Rattle Baits (Aqua/Chartreuse Belly and Firetiger)
• red craw by bill lewis

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Live Baits Check Prices

• eel

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.
• purple

Other Check Prices

• powerbait yellow
• corn
• eel
• hot dog dipped in Anise oil
• 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
• Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.