Fishing near Newtown in Fairfield, CT

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill, Striped Bass, Northern Pike
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 85
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 166
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Lake Lillinonah (Pond Brook) Boat Launch near Newtown

Lake Lillinonah (Pond Brook) Boat Launch

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3.5 lb'er @ lake lillinonah near Newtown

3.5 lb'er @ lake lillinonah

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Lillinonah Pike near Newtown

Lillinonah Pike

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MY Largest smallie this year? Nope near Newtown

MY Largest smallie this year? Nope

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Pond Brook near Newtown

Pond Brook

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Lillinonah near Newtown

Lillinonah

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Top Fishing Spots near Newtown

Lake Zoar
Lake Zoar

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Lake Zoar
Lake Zoar

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Lake Lillinonah
Lake Lillinonah

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Lake Lillinonah
Lake Lillinonah

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Jackson's Cove
Jackson's Cove

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Pequonnock River
Pequonnock River

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Newtown Area Fish Species

Recent Newtown Fishing Reports

lake lillinonah   Fishing Report Jul 26, 2009

lake lillinonah

Lake Lillinonah (Pond Brook) Boat Launch -

First 3 hrs on kayak nothing,threw spinners and ruber worms at them w/o any luck.I then threw on a inline spinner minnow and got a 14" largemouth...

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LAKE FISHING Fishing Report Apr 07, 2010

LAKE FISHING

Lake Lillinonah,CT -

Fly fishing for large and smallmouth bass using poppers,terrestrials and sub surface flies is a real challenge on Lake Lillinonah.This lake has 35 mil...

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fishing for something small Fishing Report Jul 14, 2008

fishing for something small

Jackson's Cove Oxford, CT -

Me and three other friends went fishing at a beach and fishing area. My friend got the first catch only at about two minutes after we got there. i c...

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9/25/13-9/27/13 - Prefishing Candlewood Fishing Report Oct 03, 2013

9/25/13-9/27/13 - Prefishing Candlewood

Candlewood Lake - Danbury, CT -

Decided to do 3 days of practice before the MA BASS Nation Fish-Offs, because I had never been here, and my buddy Had not been here in many years. Con...

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stevenson dam  7/24/10 Fishing Report Jul 25, 2010

stevenson dam 7/24/10

stevenson dam,ct -

Went smallmouth fishing and got into a school of white perch practically every cast i got a fish. Caught a 2lb crappie and a smallmouth and about 30-4...

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9/28/13-9/29/13 - MA B.A.S.S. Nation Fish-Offs @ Candlewood Lake Fishing Report Oct 03, 2013

9/28/13-9/29/13 - MA B.A.S.S. Nation Fish-Offs @ Candlewood Lake

Candlewood Lake - Danbury, CT -

1st time competing in the fish-offs, and I was excited although the fishing would be a grind. Both days were different weather wise, no clouds, blue b...

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Baits and Tackle used near Newtown

Check Prices

  • THIS WAS CAUGHT USING AN OLD SCHOOL SILVER JOHNSON SPRITE SPOON
  • some on shiners some o lures spinner baits worms cranks
  • Rubber Worms Texas Rig

    Mepps #3

    Rapala X-Rap
  • tubes, senkos,
  • worm on bottom reel in slowly
  • tube
  • slug go silver sware by them
  • RUBBER CRAW FISH
  • Shad rap
  • jig worm

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • nightcrawlers, meal worms
  • night crawlers, meal worms
  • power bait, live bait, lures
  • I use meal worms here, power bait, trout worms and lures. The fish bite here off almost everything.

Creature Check Prices

  • strike king hellgramite
    strike rocket shad

Minnow Check Prices

  • Slow troll wife minnows,drifting on top
  • Drifting

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • poppers and walkers
  • Surface popper
  • RAPLA TOPWATER BLACK & SILVER
  • RAPALA TOPWATER POPPER
  • Chug Bug
  • TOPWATER BLACK & SILVER POPPER
  • TOPWATER POPPER SHAD
  • RAPALA TOPWATER POPPER SLIVER & BLACK !!
  • VERY NICE PICKERAL ON TOPWATER GREAT FIGHT
  • STILL WATER TOPWATER POPPER

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • BLACK & WHITE

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Nothing special spinnerbait
  • spiner .Rooster tail.
  • Blue/Green
  • Booyah spinnerbaits,Some crankbaits

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • frog topwater
  • 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
  • Longcast minnow, suspending jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rubber worms, Mepps,Blue Fox Vibrax,Spinnerbait
  • rainbow phoebe

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • o-wacky rigged 4" yum watermelon dinger
  • zoom green weenie
  • 6" zoom Green weenie 2/0 matzuko sickle hook
  • Oxblood Purple stripe, Green hot tip
  • wacky yum watermelon dinger
  • watermelon seed yum dinger
  • O-Wacky style 4" yum watermelon dinger
  • wacky watermelon dingy
  • 5" Watertmelon seed yum dinger wacky
  • Senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • RAPALA...SHALLOW RUN

  • FOUND THIS SMALL SWINBAIT IN A TREE
  • STORM WILDEYE JIG

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Drop shot mostly
  • Dropshot, and Small Spinner Bait
  • 2-1/2lber on c-rig
    1-1/2lber, couple 1-1/4ber, 1lbers, and shorts on spinner bait, and dropshot
  • Dropshot
  • 1-1/2lber, and a 1-1/4lber on a spinner bait. Couple 1lbers, and shorts on dropshot I think

Craw Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Lucky Craft, American shad pointer 4 inch
  • Power Worm, Phoebe
  • Sluggo but just to tell you get alot blue fish rip them up

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Rebel Crawfish Lure

Crankbait Check Prices

  • rapala lipless baby bass
  • Baby Bass
  • crankbait shallow runner shad
  • 1/4 oz 2-5 ' running

Emerger Check Prices

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Powerbait minnows Drop shot
  • silver slug-go sware by them

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • CASTING SPOON WITH GREEN GRUB
  • GREEN SPOON ADDED GREEN GRUB

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • bobber
  • let it sink and reel slowly in
  • worm on bottom
  • Drag worms across the bottom and you will catch massive bass and multiple types of pan fish.
  • on bottom reel slowly
  • used Euro crawlers,and trout worms.fished the bottom.got snagged a few times,lost tackel,,tipical....
  • floating on bobber
  • float worm without leader down in river
  • swivel hook texas rigged
  • trout worms & nightcrawlers

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • CRAWFISH LIPLESS CRANKBAIT
  • PURPLE & WHITE
  • L TRAP CRAWFISH

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • BLACK & SILVER REBEL POPPER !! LM BASS 4 1/2 (1)LBS (4) LM BASS ALL UNDER SIZED 10,11,9,7
  • TOP WATER POPPER
  • STILLWATER LURE POPPER

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Married Larry!
    (Senko)
  • Married Larry
  • Canned Corn
  • Just Jigging with a spoon..
  • cut bait fresh bunker.
  • yellow power bait

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