Fishing near Bristol in Hartford County, CT

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Winter Skate, Trout, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Striped Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 121
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 202
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Rockwell Park near Bristol

Rockwell Park

There is alot of area here to fish, and is a great spot.
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Last good largie near Bristol

Last good largie

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Last good largie with me near Bristol

Last good largie with me

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Mornin' Largie  near Bristol

Mornin' Largie

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Little guy near Bristol

Little guy

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Another one! near Bristol

Another one!

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Top Fishing Spots near Bristol

Birge Pond
Birge Pond

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Lake Garda
Lake Garda

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Lake Winfield
Lake Winfield

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Paderewski Pond
Paderewski Pond

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Pequabuck River
Pequabuck River

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Crescent Lake
Crescent Lake

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Bristol Area Fish Species

Recent Bristol Fishing Reports

Rockwell Park Fishing Report May 05, 2007

Rockwell Park

This area is part of the Pequabuck river, which is loaded with trout. Sometimes very hevily fished. It is stocked every other week tho. There is about...

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Spawning at Cedar Lake Fishing Report May 21, 2020

Spawning at Cedar Lake

Cedar Lake Bristol/Wolcott, CT -

Fish are actively spawning the last few days. The hot spot for me has been the front cove on the corner of Ipswitch and Route 69, casting towards the ...

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Paderewski Fishing Report Aug 13, 2008

Paderewski

Plainville, CT -

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Private Lake In CT Fishing Report May 18, 2011

Private Lake In CT

Private Lake CT -

-Saturday May 14th-
So it started out with a trip to my girlfriend's parent's rented house out on a great lake I go to sometimes to fish. I...

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kayak fishing not too shabby  Fishing Report Jun 07, 2010

kayak fishing not too shabby

Cresant lake ,CT -

So i went out today on the kayak ive got for the first time ever, not what to expect and not using a kayak in a very long time, I really wasnt expecti...

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The local hotspot  Fishing Report Jun 01, 2010

The local hotspot

Cresant lake ,CT -

So we went out on the 27 last month and it was great even thought i had to cut it shorter that i wanted bc i had to go to work being on and s***ty shi...

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Baits and Tackle used near Bristol

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  • was fishing for trout
    Rig:
    barrel swivel
    leader
    red hook
    power bait marshmallows
    meal worm
  • Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
  • Surface lure after sunset.
  • Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
  • Drifting
  • minnow live
  • i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
  • decent spot, watch for shallow rocks, about 10 to 12 feet beyond the point, very acessable with a canoe
  • 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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber frog
  • Popper, Color Gold and black
  • spook style bait
  • poppers and walkers

Lizard Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

  • White and Red stick bait
  • Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
  • 1/4 oz chartruse n white
  • Rapala Original
  • 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
  • Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
  • Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • blue winged olive
  • Bait Details
  • test
  • Hendrickson Emerger, Hendrickson Comparadun,

Worm Check Prices

  • Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig
  • 4" Watermelon Senko
  • zoom pumpkinseed
  • Zoom green Weenie
  • zoom green weenie trick worm
  • oxe blood roboworm
  • oxblood senko
  • Wacky senkos
  • casting into weed bed
  • spoom work well to.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

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

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

Wet Fly Check Prices

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 #
  • Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
  • 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
  • Just fished on a hook
  • One caught on a crawler , one caught on a live minnow
  • wiggler
  • peice of nightcrawler on a hook

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • clacking rap
  • red craw by bill lewis
  • 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

  • Mepps Comet 1
  • purple rooster tail & live minnows
  • Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish

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

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

Live Baits Check Prices

  • eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • purple

Other Check Prices

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

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