Fishing near Bridgeport in Fairfield, CT

4.06 Rating based on 19 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill, Striped Bass, Bluefish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 45
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 71
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Bridgeport Fishing Photos

port jeff ferry Bridgeport Harbor near Bridgeport

port jeff ferry Bridgeport Harbor

Picture I took on my cell phone while I was fishing off my kayak in the harbor
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Trout near Bridgeport

Trout

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Top Fishing Spots near Bridgeport

Bunnell's Pond
Bunnell's Pond

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Hemlock Reservoir
Hemlock Reservoir

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Easton Reservoir
Easton Reservoir

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Isinglass Reservoir
Isinglass Reservoir

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Cricker Brook
Cricker Brook

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Sherwood Island State Park
Sherwood Island State Park

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
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Bridgeport Area Fish Species

Recent Bridgeport Fishing Reports

CARP Fishing Report Nov 10, 2013

CARP

Gould Manor pond, Fairfield CT -

going for carp in a small pond in fairfield that i found its called Gould Manor Pond. iv fished this pond since i moved to CT in september, it is comp...

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lake mohegan Fishing Report Mar 24, 2014

lake mohegan

lake mohegan -

caught my first fish of the year. a brook trout probably. i caught it in open water using a pink and green rooster tail...

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river Fishing Report Apr 07, 2014

river

lake mohegan -

since 3/22 iv caught about 20 trout. from the river to the lake. most productive at the mouth of the iver...

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housatonic river Fishing Report May 05, 2014

housatonic river

housatonic river, stratford -

went out with some sandworms. didnt catch anything. i had a couple bumps. another guy on the dock caught a nice 18in bass using sandworms....

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STRIPER FISHING Fishing Report Apr 11, 2010

STRIPER FISHING

Milford Point CT -

Anyone who wants to get into some early season striper fishing whether fly fishing or spin rodding should checkout the bird sanctuary at Milford point...

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CTRI HFFA Saltwater Outing Fishing Report May 06, 2009

CTRI HFFA Saltwater Outing

Short Beach Stratford -

Combined CTRI and HFFA Fly Fishing Clubs for morning of comraderie and saltwater fly fishing at Short beach in Stratford, CT...

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Baits and Tackle used near Bridgeport

Check Prices

  • Bunker Chuncks
  • jig worm
  • Shad rap
  • worms and gulp minnows
  • slug go silver sware by them
  • worm on bottom reel in slowly
  • THIS WAS CAUGHT USING AN OLD SCHOOL SILVER JOHNSON SPRITE SPOON

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Use bacon raw fish the bottom between tides.
  • nightcrawlers
  • nightcrawlers, meal worms
  • night crawlers, meal worms
  • Red Trout Worms

Soft Baits Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • strike king hellgramite
    strike rocket shad

Tube Check Prices

  • 1"inch pumpkin seed tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • Slow troll wife minnows,drifting on top

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Sluggo but just to tell you get alot blue fish rip them up
  • Power Worm, Phoebe

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • trolled outskirts of weed beds

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Nothing special spinnerbait
  • spiner .Rooster tail.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • silver slug-go sware by them

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • bobber
  • float worm without leader down in river
  • trout worms & nightcrawlers
  • swivel hook texas rigged
  • floating on bobber
  • let it sink and reel slowly in
  • worm on bottom
  • Drag worms across the bottom and you will catch massive bass and multiple types of pan fish.
  • on bottom reel slowly
  • wiggler

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Green and bright orange frog.
  • frog topwater

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz chartruse n white

Dry Fly Check Prices

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • i saw someone else catch afish
  • Yamamoto 5" green worm
  • Yamamoto 5" worm
  • Powerbait 4" worm
  • Powerbait, 4"
  • Gary Yams Baby Bass Color
  • o-wacky rigged 4" yum watermelon dinger
  • zoom green weenie
  • 6" zoom Green weenie 2/0 matzuko sickle hook
  • Oxblood Purple stripe, Green hot tip

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Canned Corn
  • cut bait fresh bunker.
  • Married Larry!
    (Senko)
  • yellow power bait

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