Fishing near Thomaston in Litchfield County, CT

3.53 Rating based on 140 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Trout, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Striped Bass, White Perch
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 116
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 164
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Branch Brook near Thomaston

Branch Brook

There is a river running along the field in Black Rock State Park. It is very well stocked, just like the pond in the park also.
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Black Rock Pond near Thomaston

Black Rock Pond

Very well stocked thru the whole season. Great place to fish.
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Top Fishing Spots near Thomaston

Black Rock Lake(branch Brook)
Black Rock Lake(branch Brook)

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 2
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Lake Plymouth
Lake Plymouth

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Merriman Pond
Merriman Pond

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Northfield Brook Lake
Northfield Brook Lake

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 2166

Hancock Dam
Hancock Dam

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 2
Views: 3048

Lake Winfield
Lake Winfield

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Thomaston Area Fish Species

Recent Thomaston Fishing Reports

Branch Brook Fishing Report Apr 29, 2007

Branch Brook

The river running along Black Rock state park. Great spot for trout fishing....

Avg. Rating: 4
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Black Rock Fishing Report Apr 25, 2008

Black Rock

Black Rock Lake -

canoe or shore fishing.quiet spot.caught a nice perch ,but not trout this year yet.profile picture is from here in 07.there was a couple that caught a...

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The Hike For Pike Fishing Report Feb 08, 2010

The Hike For Pike

cant tell ya have to kill ya.... not that the walk out wouldnt kill ya in it self. if you follow my trips you can prob. figure it out. -

sat 530 am started in set upby 630
no flags till 2 30
Chester comes through made the trip worth while...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Naugatuck River Trout Management Fishing Report Apr 15, 2009

Naugatuck River Trout Management

Naugatuck River Trout Management -

Spent 6 hrs walking up and down this strectch this strectch with a few samll trout around 11 oclock. My brother talked me into trying one more spot be...

Avg. Rating: 5
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My first spring with a boat Fishing Report Apr 01, 2009

My first spring with a boat

Lake Winnemaug -

I finally realized that most of the fish moved to the north end of this lake. I came back a few days later and had an awesome hour of fishing near sun...

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Lake Winnemaug Fishing Report Apr 27, 2008

Lake Winnemaug

Lake Winnemaug,Watertown ,CT -

nice quiet lake in Watertown....

Avg. Rating: 2
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Baits and Tackle used near Thomaston

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  • was fishing for trout
    Rig:
    barrel swivel
    leader
    red hook
    power bait marshmallows
    meal worm
  • Drifting
  • THIS WAS CAUGHT USING AN OLD SCHOOL SILVER JOHNSON SPRITE SPOON
  • decent spot, watch for shallow rocks, about 10 to 12 feet beyond the point, very acessable with a canoe
  • Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
  • Surface lure after sunset.
  • my bait of choice for deep bass fishing in this spot is bouncing crawdads off the bottom or carolina rigged pumpkin seed power bait worms
  • spinner baits or buzz baits or small rapalas work very good here. live shiners hooked through the nose casted and retreved with a small split shot 6 inch in front of it works good too
  • a good choice of bait for highland lake is shiners down about 13 feet with a weight to keep them down or nightcrawler allways work good too!!
  • Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • I use meal worms here, power bait, trout worms and lures. The fish bite here off almost everything.
  • power bait, live bait, lures
  • you should be able to use almost anything here. I perfer rooster tails and spinners. Meal worms and trout worms work just as well.
  • nightcrawlers, meal worms
  • night crawlers, meal worms
  • Meal worm
    Lures
    Powerbait
  • eel
  • They are biting sand worms and blood worms
  • Sandworm
  • Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble

Creature Check Prices

  • D Bomb, greenish brown
  • misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown
  • strike king hellgramite
    strike rocket shad

Minnow Check Prices

  • Drifting
  • Slow troll wife minnows,drifting on top
  • medium size minnow on waited bobber.
  • small size minnow
  • used smalls up to mommalukes.
  • Drifting with live minnows
  • Drifting with a live minnow
  • same old

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber frog
  • poppers and walkers
  • Surface popper

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Blue/Green
  • Booyah spinnerbaits,Some crankbaits
  • spiner .Rooster tail.
  • Phoebe and Rooster Tail
  • White Rooster Tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • Black and Red Rubber Frog

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz chartruse n white

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • rainbow phoebe
  • Rubber worms, Mepps,Blue Fox Vibrax,Spinnerbait
  • Caught using a rooster tail. Snagged it in the neck, so were not sure if it was actually interested in the lure.
  • white tailed
  • blue fox
  • and corn

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • blue winged olive
  • Hendrickson Emerger, Hendrickson Comparadun,

Worm Check Prices

  • Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig
  • Zoom green Weenie
  • zoom green weenie trick worm
  • oxe blood roboworm
  • oxblood senko
  • casting into weed bed
  • Wacky senkos
  • casting into Lily pads
  • Wacky Senkos
  • zoom pumpkinseed

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

Hard Baits Check Prices

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Dropshot, and Small Spinner Bait
  • Dropshot
  • Drop shot mostly
  • 2-1/2lber on c-rig
    1-1/2lber, couple 1-1/4ber, 1lbers, and shorts on spinner bait, and dropshot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Lucky Craft, American shad pointer 4 inch
  • Kastmaster lure, heavy top water hits
  • Kastmaster
  • Power Worm, Phoebe
  • Scum Frogs
  • Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
  • Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
  • Buzz bait (black blade & black skirt)
  • litle plastic minnows
  • Sandworms

Craw Check Prices

  • Threw it close to the shore after spotting the bass and he immediately attacked it.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Baby Bass
  • rapala lipless baby bass
  • 1/4 oz 2-5 ' running
  • Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.
  • rattletrap
  • Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
  • spook
  • spooks
  • Rapala blue crankbait
  • 4" floating minnow

Emerger Check Prices

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Powerbait minnows Drop shot
  • berkley gulp(minnows)
  • silver slug-go sware by them
  • fin-s
  • weighted Sluggo

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • good cove for pan fish.. a few time's last year
  • Euro Crawler so not as big fit on the hook nicely.the on i got was about 11" and 2/3 of a #
  • used Euro crawlers,and trout worms.fished the bottom.got snagged a few times,lost tackel,,tipical....
  • caught sun fish after about 10 am. 1 small perch about 6in. fishing has been slow so far this season.
  • Red Eye bass will hit alot of the time in most of the coves and downed trees
  • Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
  • One caught on a crawler , one caught on a live minnow
  • wiggler
  • swivel hook texas rigged
  • Just fished on a hook

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • clacking rap
  • baby bass color fast retrieve with sharp jerks

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • 2 inch, color gold and white

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • purple rooster tail & live minnows
  • Mepps Comet 1

Grub Check Prices

  • grubs,meal worms said fishing was hot last couple of days.
  • curly tail grub just slowly dragging

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • 1/16 white road runner in current with a reeling and jigging motion
  • bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Live Baits Check Prices

  • eel

Other Check Prices

  • i used yellow power bait
  • Mealworm
  • yellow power bait
  • hot dog dipped in Anise oil
  • eel
  • Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.
  • corn

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