Fishing near Groton in New London County, CT

Check Prices

• live bait
• Squid
• sea robin
• eel
• live sand worms
• live worms
• little cleo silver spoon 1/8th
• spearing squid strip
• t n w and squid rig
• white and silver rooster tail

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• eel
• eel, frozen squid
• Sandworms and Squid
• live eals
• eel/1 oz weight
• deadly dick
• Clams
• meal worms

Tube Check Prices

• tube and worm (sand worm)
• Only hitting the tube and worm. Fish on every 50-100 yard run.
• running a bass pro shops 3.5 inch tube. Little fish were having a hard time choking the bait down, but they managed.

Creature Check Prices

• Brush Hog in the pads
• All were caught on a Brush Hog plastic.
• Switched to the watermelon seed baby brush hawg

Minnow Check Prices

• drifting minnows small weights right off the bottom and useing some rubber baits with lead jig heads bouncing them off the bottom
• large shiners
• Shiners and chicken liver fished on the bottom.
• Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
• Mummies

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• i was using my silver and black BPS popper, until i lost it in a tree, another lure lost to the pond kings
• Bass pro 3.5 inch black silver popper

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• white luck-e-strike 110
• I used a 5" White Jerk Shad on a 1/4 white jig head.

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• silver and orange fly from a kit from walmart.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Thomas double spinner w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt
• yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

Squid Check Prices

• put a sinker on it and dropped it to the bottom
• frozen squid
• Spinner rigs with colored beads and buck tail fished along the bottom with a squid strip and spearing added
• sabikis
• 4 oz

Streamer Check Prices

• freshwater fly to immitate a bait fish, colors i used were yellow, purple, and blue

Stick Bait Check Prices

• white x-rap
• Green mini jerkbait 2-3 inches long caught most of the fish but no bass.
• Rapala slash bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white
• small spinners and very small rapala's
• Spin-flies with a brown body and gold spinner worked best. Probably a caddis-fly or brown trout paint pattern. 1/16 or 1/8 oz.
• spearing/sqid
• mepps #4 silver and white trailer
• Thomas spinner
• yellow rooster tail 1/8th
• Thomas Spinner
• Thomas single blade gold spinner.
• I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• gulp
• skate
• braid jig shiners squid strips
• squid
• Hammered Jig
• sqid
• strips
• jigs
• on the teaser
• gulp shrimp

Terrestrial Check Prices

• Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

• i throw everything in here. the edges are very shallow so summer fishing is mostly with worms, but a crank will do in some of the open water.
• BPS stick-o-worm 5 inch in watermelon red flake.
• same bps worm
• using the sinko melon with gold flake
• i use the keitech ayu worms and a regular green with gold fleck sinko
• watermelon gold flake
• used a t-rigged 5" sinko
• on the fast retrieve after looking for bass, the chain picks were killing it as i ran it in for another cast.
• used both watermelon and green pumpkin
• Watermelon senco,5"

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• dark worm very slow

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• i was using a keitech 2" spider, and my partner was throwing there 4" worm. Both were working
• 4oz buck tail with a strip of squid and live mummy chub.
  a 14inch non weighted trailer with a yellow skirt & live mummy
• black/silver shad killers
• fish was laying in the shallows and i bounced the jig off its face a few times and got a reaction strike. Found the fish was blind in one eye when i got it in the boat.
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
• 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

• deadly dick,hopkins
• deadly dick

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

• Platium Blonde 1/0 and olive flatwing deceiver 1/0
• Moby Worm
• Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM
• Flatwing Deceiver
• Fly Fishing - Rootbeer estaz and white marabou tied on a 1/0 hook wooly bugger style. Stripers and blues were feeding on nickle sized butterfish and peanut bunker
• Epoxy Bay Anchovie Pattern Size 2
• Sight casting to stripers on the flats off Garniers Island Ny
• Flies- Platinum Blonde 1/0, Gray white Flat wing Deceiver2/0 chartruese Closar 1/0
• Olive Flat wing deceiver, popper

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• White Sassy shad
• Swimming plug
• Tube & Worm
• Chatter bait, minnow/spinner
• I used powerbait rubber worms.

Craw Check Prices

• Green/brown d-bomb with a 1/2oz weight and 5/0 wide gap hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• yo zurry
• floating Minnow
• Plastic cricket

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

• tried out my new xps hard jerkbait. It swims good to. Caught the smaller bass on the jerk action and the larger on a steady retrieve.
• Bright blue Shadow Rap Shad.
• KVD 1.5
• shad rapala flat rap 10
• Strike king KVD bluegill 1.5
• KVD 1.5 Bluegill
• strikeking 3xd in green shad
• rapalla balsa floating minnow w/berkely extruded night crawler added
• THE Matzuo
• rapalla balsa floating minnow

Bass Jig Check Prices

• little stanley 1/4 round head jig with black paca craw
• my regular watermelon red flake
• chili immage skirt and watermelon red yum beaver tail
• green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
• war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
• blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
• i used a jig and wacky worm.
• Stanley 1/4 oz jig head and net bait paca chunk in black trailer.
• blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• i was using a 4.8 inch fat swing impact
• same as usual
• dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?
• Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
• Pearl Suggos!
• keitech 4" AYU
• Keitech ayu

Wet Fly Check Prices

• purple and white fly to immitate bait fish

Lake Pattern Check Prices

• Drop shot and finesse worms

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• Blue/silver Castmaster with bucktail
• i was using a 1.5 inch eppinger spoon in orange with black dots.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• fish under lights and throw somethin shinny about 3 feet down
• Blaze Rattle Baits (Aqua/Chartreuse Belly and Firetiger)

Herring Check Prices

• Fresh Chunked Herring
• Chunks of Atlantic menhaden

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Used the classic worm and a bobber...werent expecting to catch anything big, and we didnt, but still a fun time.
• Nightcrawler hooked weedless
• very basic, traditional techs..and I never use a bobber. that way I come out with either a lmb or catfish in this spot, its a win-win situation :)
• night crawler on a rattling bobber lol

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Green crabs cut in half on a 4/0
  Gamakatsu Octopus hook
• Green crabs cut in half

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• i was using a little silver spoon 1/8 by little cleo, and was doing ok when not getting into a tree. There is not much room to cast, and any error one way or another and your in the brush.
• D DICK
• Silver Diamond Jigs
• Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• BLUE/WHITE POPPER
• slow and steady retrieve

Blade Bait Check Prices

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• Bucktail tipped with squid/spearing
• Bucktails tipped with Squid/spearing. Brian caught the 9lber on bait rod with large silverside
• Green bucktail with red pork rind on 3way

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Running a keitech 3" spider jig with BPS crappie Jig head. Fish did a good job almost getting away, fought very hard, and almost straitened out the hook.
• Toped with spike or gulp for sunnies. Or a shiner and little nipper for crappie.

Other Check Prices

• crabs
• greenies
• Live eel
• blue crab!
• chicken
• blue crab on chicken
• blue crab
• big crab!
• buck tails yellow or white with pork rind trailer , yellow darters, slingging eels at night
• any thing works chunkbait, live bait, sand worms, squid strips , lures