Fishing near Broad Brook in Hartford County, CT

3.58 Rating based on 161 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Winter Skate, Yellow Perch, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 117
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 235
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Top Fishing Spots near Broad Brook

Scantic-powder Hollow
Scantic-powder Hollow

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Somersville Pond
Somersville Pond

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# Reviews: 1
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Shenipsit Lake
Shenipsit Lake

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
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Hockanum River
Hockanum River

Avg. Rating: 2.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 4798

190 Bridge
190 Bridge

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Thompsonville Boat Launch
Thompsonville Boat Launch

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Broad Brook Area Fish Species

Recent Broad Brook Fishing Reports

a few hours on the water Fishing Report Apr 06, 2014

a few hours on the water

I got out with Roger for a few hours today. Some ice still on the lake and water was very cold. I threw jigs, spinnerbait, Huskie jerk, KVD sexy shad,...

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White perch in the CT River Fishing Report Jun 13, 2012

White perch in the CT River

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For the first time I went to fish for the white perch, nice little fish and taste good too....

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Baby Striper on the Bridge Fishing Report May 15, 2011

Baby Striper on the Bridge

CT river -

Used a white 7" sluggo to catch this baby under the bridge...

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Nite fishin Fishing Report May 23, 2009

Nite fishin

159 launch -

I went out with recosby to get a few stripers and we caught 2...

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The Ct river Windsor Locks during the Tornado Fishing Report Jun 19, 2011

The Ct river Windsor Locks during the Tornado

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I took my friend Ron striper fishing on the river and landed one just about when the tornado was hitting Springfield..the video is crazy but funny..

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Connecticut River Carp Fishing Report May 16, 2013

Connecticut River Carp

Connecticut River -

Trying for shad, ended up carp fishing. Shad fishing was very slow. I caught only one and my friend caught one as well. Carp were more cooperative. Ca...

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Baits and Tackle used near Broad Brook

Check Prices

  • mixed color senkos
  • if you know stripers then you should know what bait
  • berkley power bait trout nugget
  • Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • minnow live
  • Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
  • variety
  • Just a worm on a size 2 hook.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • zoom brush hawg pumpkin

Minnow Check Prices

  • large shinners with a bobber
  • tip ups
  • same old
  • 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.
  • Golden shiner
  • Minnows and Rapalas

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Popper, Color Gold and black
  • Lunker city Salad Spoon
  • Popper
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Rubber frog

Lizard Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz c rig lizard
  • 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • White 3/8 Strike King
  • White rooster tail
  • White Rooster Tail
  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • Phoebe and Rooster Tail

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

  • White and Red stick bait
  • Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
  • Rapala Original
  • Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
  • Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
  • 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
  • others at this pond using gold fish,trout bait and worms

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • rooster tail
  • little rooster
  • black Rooster tail
  • blue fox
  • meppes
  • Phoebe
  • and corn
  • Rooster Tail
  • Black/white spin-fly

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • Bait Details
  • test
  • 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.

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT
  • 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

  • black senko
  • watermelon seed yum dinger
  • watermelon yum dinger
  • yum dinger watermelon
  • decided to throw some black yamamotos at these guys and they took it....
  • buck tail jig with a Berkeley worm
  • weedless bucktail with a berkley worm
  • trigger x swimming worm rigged
  • Used Green senkos and tiger cranks
  • Yamamotos Senko...green
    no luck on spinners and cranks

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • gulp
  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • small swimming minnow soft bait
  • litle plastic minnows
  • Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
  • Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
  • Gulp Alive
  • Kastmaster
  • Sandworms
  • Kastmaster lure, heavy top water hits
  • Scum Frogs

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap
  • bbz-1 shad blue back herring color

Crankbait Check Prices

  • nofish but I know they're here sometimes
  • spinner bait
    yamos
    crankbaits
  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
  • booya crankbaits brown and green
  • hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
  • rattletrap
  • Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
  • spook
  • spooks
  • 4" floating minnow

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • white paddle tail
  • yellow
  • weighted Sluggo
  • fin-s
  • Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos

Wet Fly Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
  • just night crawlers on small hooks
  • peice of nightcrawler on a hook
  • 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
  • Trout worn with a single split shop weight
  • Just fished on a hook
  • Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
  • Rapalas and Nightcrawlers

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • red craw by bill lewis

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Live Baits Check Prices

  • eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • purple

Other Check Prices

  • 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
  • hot dog dipped in Anise oil
  • eel
  • Chicken Liver
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • corn
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn

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