Fishing near Central Somers in Tolland County, CT

3.59 Rating based on 155 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, American Shad, Yellow Perch, Chain Pickerel, Rainbow Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 108
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 229
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Top Fishing Spots near Central Somers

Somersville Pond
Somersville Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
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Hurds Lake - Camp Ayapo
Hurds Lake - Camp Ayapo

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
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Scantic River
Scantic River

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Crescent Lake
Crescent Lake

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Scantic-powder Hollow
Scantic-powder Hollow

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Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake

Avg. Rating: 2.4
# Reviews: 5
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Central Somers Area Fish Species

Recent Central Somers Fishing Reports

Biggest catch this year!! Fishing Report Sep 11, 2009

Biggest catch this year!!

Mill Pond Somers CT -

Went kayaking in the wind and pooring rain....fished for 3+ hours...no bites on my black senko until...finally caught big larry...4.2 lbs 21.5 inches....

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Ayapo Fishing Report Jun 19, 2011

Ayapo

Camp Ayapo Somers Ct -

Went out last week and caught 8-10 1-2 pounders from 5am to noon..with 5inch black yamas and hula grubs..great time :0...

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Sunday Cresent Lake Enfield  Fishing Report Jul 15, 2009

Sunday Cresent Lake Enfield

Cresent Lake Enfield -

Went out in a 10ft jon boat with recosby sunday morning and nailed em...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Cresent lake run Fishing Report May 25, 2009

Cresent lake run

Cresent Lake Ct -

I went out on memorial day to get some pond fishing in...

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cystal lake visit Fishing Report Nov 17, 2008

cystal lake visit

crystal lake -

stoped in crystal lake on my way to putnam to visit my girlfriend planty of bites fish hard to reel in ......good spot for catch and release..... ...

Avg. Rating: 4
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night crescent run Fishing Report Jul 18, 2009

night crescent run

Cresent Lake Enfield -

Thunder storms don't stop us
we caught nothing smaller than 5 lb largies in a T storm...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Baits and Tackle used near Central Somers

Check Prices

  • berkley power bait trout nugget
  • Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
  • mixed color senkos
  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • if you know stripers then you should know what bait
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • Flies and Jigs
  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • minnow live
  • Just a worm on a size 2 hook.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • eel
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
  • Nightcrallers & worms
  • They are biting sand worms and blood worms
  • Big shiners
  • eels!
  • eels

Creature Check Prices

  • zoom brush hawg pumpkin

Minnow Check Prices

  • 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.
  • large shinners with a bobber
  • tip ups
  • same old
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones
  • you play the bait and bobber set up similar to the canal at the cape.I set the bait at about 24-27",sent it up curent and let it pass you reel it back and repeat.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Lunker city Salad Spoon
  • Popper
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Popper, Color Gold and black
  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Z-Man Hard Legs 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

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

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala Original
  • Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
  • White and Red stick bait
  • 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

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • Bait Details
  • test

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • rooster tail
  • little rooster
  • black Rooster tail
  • Rooster Tail
  • blue fox
  • meppes
  • Phoebe
  • and corn

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

  • black senko
  • decided to throw some black yamamotos at these guys and they took it....
  • weedless bucktail with a berkley worm
  • buck tail jig with a Berkeley worm
  • green pumpkin senko
  • trigger x swimming worm rigged
  • Used Green senkos and tiger cranks
  • I usually use my jitterbug and Yamamoto sinkos/hula grub here...its solid every time
  • Yamamoto black Senko
  • senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Surprised I only got one today!
  • Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
  • 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
  • gulp
  • Most were caught on a Trout Magnet . 1 on a Rapala and the other on aRooster Tail . Largest fish was the Last one caught . Trout magnet was the right bait to yse today.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Gulp Alive
  • small swimming minnow soft bait
  • litle plastic minnows
  • Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
  • Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

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

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • white and blue,fishing mud line
  • 4-1/4lb on a jig
    3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
    two 1lbers on buzzbait
  • All on a swimjig

    My 9.75lb Limit was:
    2lbs 11oz
    2lbs 2oz
    2lbs 1oz
    1lb 8oz
    1lb 6oz

    5 more in the 1-1/4lb to 3/4lb range

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • white paddle tail
  • yellow
  • Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
  • weighted Sluggo
  • fin-s
  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 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
  • little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
  • just night crawlers on small hooks
  • peice of nightcrawler on a hook
  • Trout worn with a single split shop weight
  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish

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
  • Trout Magnet Jig
  • Trout Magnet Jigs
  • Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
    One Brook Trout and one Rainbow.
  • Trout Magnet
  • Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body

Other Check Prices

  • rainbow or green powerbait
  • 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
  • Chicken Liver
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Corn and Garlic
  • powerbait yellow
  • hot dog dipped in Anise oil

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