Fishing near Meriden in New Haven County, CT

Check Prices

• Surface lure after sunset.
• Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
• was fishing for trout
  Rig:
  barrel swivel
  leader
  red hook
  power bait marshmallows
  meal worm
• minnow live
• slug go silver sware by them
• worms and gulp minnows
• Shad rap
• jig worm

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• night crawlers, meal worms
• nightcrawlers, meal worms
• Sandworm
• Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble
• you should be able to use almost anything here. I perfer rooster tails and spinners. Meal worms and trout worms work just as well.
• eel
• eels!
• eels
• nightcrawlers
• Meelworms and yellow powerbait nuggets

Creature Check Prices

• D Bomb, greenish brown
• misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown
• All were caught on a Brush Hog plastic.
• Switched to the watermelon seed baby brush hawg
• strike king hellgramite
  strike rocket shad

Tube Check Prices

• 1"inch pumpkin seed tube

Minnow Check Prices

• Minnows and Rapalas
• same old
• Golden shiner
• Slow troll wife minnows,drifting on top
• Mummies
• Drifting
• large shinners with a bobber

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• spook style bait
• Surface popper
• Rubber frog
• cut bait ,top water popers.
• 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.
• Blue/Green
• Booyah spinnerbaits,Some crankbaits

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Black and Red Rubber 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.
• Green and bright orange frog.

Streamer Check Prices

• 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

• 1/4 oz chartruse n white
• White and Red stick bait

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.
• and corn
• I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.
• Thomas single blade gold spinner.
• Black/white spin-fly
• rainbow phoebe
• blue fox
• black Rooster tail
• little rooster
• rooster tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

• Caught on a yellow sally size 14. Had a bite using a yellow and red streamer.
• Yellow drakes and orange/yellow sulfers.
• Caught using a yellow haired caddis ~#16 size.
• 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.

Nymph Check Prices

• A cross between a pheasant tail and a copper jack.
• Green bh nymph
• 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

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

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Plastic sluggo worm
• jig heads and swim baits
• SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• #11 minnow rapala
• bbz-1 shad blue back herring color
• Rebel Crawfish Lure

Crankbait Check Prices

• Rapala blue crankbait
• Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.
• Yozuri
• 4" floating minnow
• spooks
• spook
• Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
• rattletrap
• trolled outskirts of weed beds
• kvd

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Stanley 1/4 oz jig head and net bait paca chunk in black trailer.
• white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• berkley gulp(minnows)
• fin-s
• silver slug-go sware by them
• weighted Sluggo
• Pearl Suggos!
• Keitech ayu
• keitech 4" AYU
• Powerbait minnows Drop shot
• yellow
• white paddle tail

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly bugger, orange

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• wiggler
• Just fished on a hook
• Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
• used Euro crawlers,and trout worms.fished the bottom.got snagged a few times,lost tackel,,tipical....
• swivel hook texas rigged
• 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 #
• trout worms & nightcrawlers
• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• baby bass color fast retrieve with sharp jerks
• red craw by bill lewis

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Mepps Comet 1

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

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

Other Check Prices

• i used yellow power bait
• Mealworm
• yellow power bait
• Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.
• corn
• eel
• hot dog dipped in Anise oil
• meal worms
• mealworm
• cut bait fresh bunker.