Fishing near New Haven in New Haven County, CT

3.59 Rating based on 76 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Trout, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Sunfish, Striped Bass, Bluefish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 63
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 103
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CT, WEAKFISH near New Haven

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Maltby 6-2-10 near New Haven

Maltby 6-2-10

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Maltby Lake near New Haven

Maltby Lake

Was having no luck, moved over the to the dam and ran a worm up the face of the dam, caught this bass on the first cast
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Top Fishing Spots near New Haven

Quinnipiac River
Quinnipiac River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
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New Haven Harbor
New Haven Harbor

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
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Maltby Lake #3
Maltby Lake #3

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Lake Wintergreen
Lake Wintergreen

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Lake Wintergreen
Lake Wintergreen

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 279

Lake Saltonstall
Lake Saltonstall

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
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New Haven Area Fish Species

Recent New Haven Fishing Reports

edgewood pond challenge Fishing Report Jun 05, 2013

edgewood pond challenge

new haven ct -

catch a carp in 3 hours or before we get mugged...

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edgewood park Fishing Report Jul 01, 2012

edgewood park

new haven ct -

tidal effect pond @edgewood park...

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Maltby Fishing Report Jun 04, 2010

Maltby

Maltby Lake -

Caught 2 LMB, failed to set the hook on two more big ones....

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Maltby Lake, 8-5-09 Fishing Report Aug 05, 2009

Maltby Lake, 8-5-09

Maltby Lakes, West Haven, CT -

Out this morning for a little fishing. Was having no luck. Moved over to the dam and ran a Powerbait 4" worm up the face of the dam, got a nice ...

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Maltby Lakes Fishing Report Jun 25, 2010

Maltby Lakes

Maltby Lakes -

early morning fishing caught large mouth bass...

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Maltby 5-31-10 Fishing Report Jun 04, 2010

Maltby 5-31-10

Maltby lakes -

wen't out about 5:30 pm, caught a 9' yellow perch on a shad rap....

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Baits and Tackle used near New Haven

Check Prices

  • worms and gulp minnows
  • jig worm
  • Shad rap
  • slug go silver sware by them
  • Bunker Chuncks
  • 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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • nightcrawlers
  • night crawlers, meal worms
  • nightcrawlers, meal worms
  • Meelworms and yellow powerbait nuggets

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • Slow troll wife minnows,drifting on top

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spiner .Rooster tail.
  • Nothing special spinnerbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Green and bright orange frog.
  • 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.

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.

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • Powerbait, 4"
  • Yamamoto 5" worm
  • Powerbait 4" worm
  • Yamamoto 5" green worm
  • Gary Yams Baby Bass Color
  • i saw someone else catch afish
  • Sandworms worked best, but squid slivers did OK
  • zoom pumpkinseed
  • Sand worms
  • strike king shimm-e-stik
    baby bass color

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Plastic sluggo worm

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

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

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • trolled outskirts of weed beds
  • Rapala blue crankbait

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • silver slug-go sware by them
  • berkley gulp(minnows)

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

  • cut bait fresh bunker.
  • yellow power bait
  • Mealworm
  • Canned Corn
  • i used yellow power bait
  • chunk bait clams or fish bluefis rigs and 2 to 3 oz weight
  • meal worms
  • mealworm
  • any thing works chunkbait, live bait, sand worms, squid strips , lures
  • Eels and squid

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