Fishing near Hamden in New Haven County, CT

3.58 Rating based on 85 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Winter Skate, Trout, Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 81
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 130
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Hamden Fishing Photos

bassin 3/17/12 near Hamden

bassin 3/17/12

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bassin 3/17/12 near Hamden

bassin 3/17/12

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trout near Hamden

trout

my son caught one 1 1/2 lbs brown.
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mill river near Hamden

mill river

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another bow near Hamden

another bow

caught this in the mill river @ sleeping giant 5-27-10
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trout hot spot near Hamden

trout hot spot

along the right side of pond
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Top Fishing Spots near Hamden

Lake Wintergreen
Lake Wintergreen

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Lake Wintergreen
Lake Wintergreen

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Unknown/ Muddy River
Unknown/ Muddy River

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Mill River
Mill River

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Quinnipiac River
Quinnipiac River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 9087

Maltby Lake #3
Maltby Lake #3

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Hamden Area Fish Species

Recent Hamden Fishing Reports

Slepping Giant  Fishing Report May 08, 2008

Slepping Giant

Slepping Giant park -

nice place to fish ,we caught 7 trout .Two were 1.5 lbs one brown and one rainbow trout ....

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mill river  Fishing Report May 28, 2010

mill river

mill river -

Went fishing for about an hour, had a few bites and landed a rainbow on a wiggler. ...

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finding fun Fishing Report Apr 19, 2008

finding fun

lake wintergreen, hamden -

just went out for a drive and the scenery rods in the car of course we decided to throw a pole in and boy oh boy what a show...

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All summer long Fishing Report Apr 23, 2008

All summer long

Lake Wintergreen, Hamden -

Spent most of the summer 08 fishing from my 9.5 ft. kayak. I spent almost every Saturday late afternoon into evening out there just off the shore and ...

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big cats Fishing Report Jun 10, 2008

big cats

lake wintergreen, hamden -

fishing on the lake...

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family affair Fishing Report Feb 07, 2010

family affair

warton brook -

me my girl and her dad...

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Baits and Tackle used near Hamden

Check Prices

  • slug go silver sware by them
  • worms and gulp minnows
  • Shad rap
  • jig worm
  • Surface lure after sunset.
  • Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
  • i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
  • was fishing for trout
    Rig:
    barrel swivel
    leader
    red hook
    power bait marshmallows
    meal worm
  • THIS WAS CAUGHT USING AN OLD SCHOOL SILVER JOHNSON SPRITE SPOON
  • Bunker Chuncks

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • nightcrawlers
  • night crawlers, meal worms
  • nightcrawlers, meal worms
  • Meelworms and yellow powerbait nuggets
  • you should be able to use almost anything here. I perfer rooster tails and spinners. Meal worms and trout worms work just as well.
  • power bait, live bait, lures
  • Sandworm
  • I use meal worms here, power bait, trout worms and lures. The fish bite here off almost everything.
  • Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble

Tube Check Prices

  • 1"inch pumpkin seed tube

Creature Check Prices

  • strike king hellgramite
    strike rocket shad
  • D Bomb, greenish brown
  • misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown
  • All were caught on a Brush Hog plastic.

Minnow Check Prices

  • Slow troll wife minnows,drifting on top
  • Minnows and Rapalas

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • I used a 5" White Jerk Shad on a 1/4 white jig head.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spiner .Rooster tail.
  • Nothing special spinnerbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Green and bright orange frog.
  • 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

  • 1/4 oz chartruse n white

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Caught using a rooster tail. Snagged it in the neck, so were not sure if it was actually interested in the lure.
  • Thomas single blade gold spinner.
  • I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.
  • and corn

Worm Check Prices

  • Powerbait, 4"
  • Powerbait 4" worm
  • Yamamoto 5" worm
  • Yamamoto 5" green worm
  • Gary Yams Baby Bass Color
  • zoom pumpkinseed
  • i saw someone else catch afish
  • Sandworms worked best, but squid slivers did OK
  • strike king shimm-e-stik
    baby bass color
  • Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Plastic sluggo worm

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Power Worm, Phoebe
  • Buzz bait (black blade & black skirt)
  • Lucky Craft, American shad pointer 4 inch
  • Scum Frogs
  • Kastmaster lure, heavy top water hits
  • Sandworms
  • Kastmaster
  • Sluggo but just to tell you get alot blue fish rip them up

Craw Check Prices

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

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • #11 minnow rapala

Crankbait Check Prices

  • trolled outskirts of weed beds
  • Rapala blue crankbait
  • rapala lipless baby bass
  • Baby Bass

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • silver slug-go sware by them
  • berkley gulp(minnows)
  • Powerbait minnows Drop shot
  • Pearl Suggos!

Wet Fly Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • wiggler
  • swivel hook texas rigged
  • trout worms & nightcrawlers
  • used Euro crawlers,and trout worms.fished the bottom.got snagged a few times,lost tackel,,tipical....
  • 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 #
  • Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
  • Just fished on a hook
  • bobber

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • baby bass color fast retrieve with sharp jerks

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps Comet 1

Grub Check Prices

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

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Spikes with gulp maggots
  • Toped with spike or gulp for sunnies. Or a shiner and little nipper for crappie.

Other Check Prices

  • yellow power bait
  • cut bait fresh bunker.
  • Mealworm
  • i used yellow power bait
  • Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.
  • meal worms
  • mealworm
  • Canned Corn
  • chunk bait clams or fish bluefis rigs and 2 to 3 oz weight
  • corn

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