Fishing near Wallingford in New Haven County, CT

3.6 Rating based on 95 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Winter Skate, Trout, Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Other (Saltwater), Yellow Perch
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 80
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 147
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Wallingford Fishing Photos

trout hot spot near Wallingford

trout hot spot

along the right side of pond
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trout near Wallingford

trout

my son caught one 1 1/2 lbs brown.
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mill river near Wallingford

mill river

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another bow near Wallingford

another bow

caught this in the mill river @ sleeping giant 5-27-10
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bassin 3/17/12 near Wallingford

bassin 3/17/12

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bassin 3/17/12 near Wallingford

bassin 3/17/12

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Top Fishing Spots near Wallingford

Unknown/ Muddy River
Unknown/ Muddy River

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Lake Gaillard
Lake Gaillard

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Branford River
Branford River

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Lake Wintergreen
Lake Wintergreen

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Lake Wintergreen
Lake Wintergreen

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Lake Saltonstall
Lake Saltonstall

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Wallingford Area Fish Species

Recent Wallingford Fishing Reports

family affair Fishing Report Feb 07, 2010

family affair

warton brook -

me my girl and her dad...

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Slepping Giant  Fishing Report May 08, 2008

Slepping Giant

Slepping Giant park -

nice place to fish ,we caught 7 trout .Two were 1.5 lbs one brown and one rainbow trout ....

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mill river  Fishing Report May 28, 2010

mill river

mill river -

Went fishing for about an hour, had a few bites and landed a rainbow on a wiggler. ...

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Farm River  Fishing Report Apr 27, 2007

Farm River

stocked with trout, i heard from people that they had alot of bites, caught eel tho only stayed there for 30mins...

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Farm River Fishing Report May 28, 2009

Farm River

East Haven spot -

caught a 14inch trout around 11am, left and went back around 6pm and caught another 14inch trout...

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*Hidden Lake* Anglers Paradise Fishing Report Apr 25, 2013

*Hidden Lake* Anglers Paradise

Wallingford Linear trail -

This is a relatively unknown area, it is off of the Wallingford linear trail...walk 1.0 miles down the linear trail, to the right there will be a dirt...

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Baits and Tackle used near Wallingford

Check Prices

  • slug go silver sware by them
  • worms and gulp minnows
  • Shad rap
  • jig worm
  • Surface lure after sunset.
  • Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
  • i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
  • was fishing for trout
    Rig:
    barrel swivel
    leader
    red hook
    power bait marshmallows
    meal worm
  • Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
  • using a small keitech spider 2"

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • nightcrawlers
  • night crawlers, meal worms
  • nightcrawlers, meal worms
  • Meelworms and yellow powerbait nuggets
  • Sandworm
  • you should be able to use almost anything here. I perfer rooster tails and spinners. Meal worms and trout worms work just as well.
  • Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble
  • power bait, live bait, lures
  • I use meal worms here, power bait, trout worms and lures. The fish bite here off almost everything.
  • eels

Tube Check Prices

  • 1"inch pumpkin seed tube

Creature Check Prices

  • misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown
  • D Bomb, greenish brown
  • strike king hellgramite
    strike rocket shad
  • All were caught on a Brush Hog plastic.

Minnow Check Prices

  • Slow troll wife minnows,drifting on top
  • Minnows and Rapalas
  • Golden shiner
  • Mummies

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • spook style bait
  • Surface popper
  • cut bait ,top water popers.
  • poppers and walkers

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • I used a 5" White Jerk Shad on a 1/4 white jig head.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spiner .Rooster tail.
  • Nothing special spinnerbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Green and bright orange frog.
  • 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.

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz chartruse n white

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • Caught on a yellow sally size 14. Had a bite using a yellow and red streamer.
  • Caught using a yellow haired caddis ~#16 size.
  • Yellow drakes and orange/yellow sulfers.

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

Worm Check Prices

  • Powerbait, 4"
  • Powerbait 4" worm
  • Yamamoto 5" worm
  • Yamamoto 5" green worm
  • Gary Yams Baby Bass Color
  • Sandworms worked best, but squid slivers did OK
  • zoom pumpkinseed
  • strike king shimm-e-stik
    baby bass color
  • i saw someone else catch afish
  • Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Plastic sluggo worm

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Power Worm, Phoebe
  • Buzz bait (black blade & black skirt)
  • Scum Frogs
  • Sandworms
  • Lucky Craft, American shad pointer 4 inch
  • Kastmaster lure, heavy top water hits
  • Kastmaster

Craw Check Prices

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

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • clouser minnows and half N half's do well.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • #11 minnow rapala

Crankbait Check Prices

  • trolled outskirts of weed beds
  • Rapala blue crankbait
  • kvd
  • kvd black chartreuse squairbill

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Stanley 1/4 oz jig head and net bait paca chunk in black trailer.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • silver slug-go sware by them
  • berkley gulp(minnows)
  • Pearl Suggos!

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Wolly bugger, orange

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • wiggler
  • swivel hook texas rigged
  • trout worms & nightcrawlers
  • used Euro crawlers,and trout worms.fished the bottom.got snagged a few times,lost tackel,,tipical....
  • Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
  • Just fished on a hook
  • 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 #

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • baby bass color fast retrieve with sharp jerks

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps Comet 1

Grub Check Prices

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

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • 1/16 white road runner in current with a reeling and jigging motion

Live Baits Check Prices

  • eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • yellow power bait
  • cut bait fresh bunker.
  • Mealworm
  • i used yellow power bait
  • meal worms
  • mealworm
  • Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.
  • chunk bait clams or fish bluefis rigs and 2 to 3 oz weight
  • any thing works chunkbait, live bait, sand worms, squid strips , lures
  • Eels and squid

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