Fishing near Noank in New London County, CT

3.49 Rating based on 149 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Striped Bass, Largemouth Bass, Scup (Porgy), Blackfish, Bluefish, Other (Saltwater)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 87
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 228
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Mystic Pizza near Noank

Mystic Pizza

This is the location where the movie "Mystic Pizza" with Julia Roberts was filmed
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Mystic Pizza near Noank

Mystic Pizza

A Slice of Heaven
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S & P Oyster House View near Noank

S & P Oyster House View

Great view of the Mystic River. The food is excellent.
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S & P Oyster House near Noank

S & P Oyster House

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Top Fishing Spots near Noank

Fishers Island Sound
Fishers Island Sound

Avg. Rating: 3
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Fishers Island  "east Harbor"
Fishers Island "east Harbor"

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 3
Views: 3386

Whitford Brook
Whitford Brook

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 2421

Thames River
Thames River

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
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Race Point
Race Point

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 395

Brandegee Lake
Brandegee Lake

Avg. Rating: 2.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 3776

Noank Area Fish Species

Recent Noank Fishing Reports

Worm Swarm Fishing Report May 27, 2009

Worm Swarm

Mason Island Mystic CT -

Fly fishing tidal ponds for stripers...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Two hours at five lakes Fishing Report Jun 23, 2013

Two hours at five lakes

five lakes groton -

Left the house at around 6 and arrived at five lakes about 10 min later. The solunar plot looked great for sunset so off i went. I had not used my n...

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FIVE LAKES Fishing Report Mar 18, 2012

FIVE LAKES

five lakes groton -

This set of ponds is right behind an apartment complex. There are some great bass in here, and i leave them behind because i catch the same fish over...

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Few hours of P and Q Fishing Report May 21, 2013

Few hours of P and Q

five lakes groton -

Ran out to five lakes, and took only three lures. The plan was to become more experenced with topwater baits as i have only fished with them a few ti...

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Tog Fishing in November Fishing Report Nov 10, 2008

Tog Fishing in November

Eastern L.I. Sound -

Headed out with a Buddy with a bucket of green crabs, on a cool breezy November day. We managed to catch some nice fish. Fish were in shallow water 10...

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1st. Salt Water Fishing rip Fishing Report Jan 03, 2009

1st. Salt Water Fishing rip

Thames River, South side of Fishers Island -

Put in the Thames River under the Gold Star Bridge on the East side of river....

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Baits and Tackle used near Noank

Check Prices

  • live bait
  • t n w and squid rig
  • Squid
  • Chartreuse Blonde
  • I was using a mepps #2 silver blade and white dressing
  • sea robin
  • eel
  • live sand worms
  • live worms
  • white and silver rooster tail

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

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
  • Shiners and chicken liver fished on the bottom.
  • large shiners
  • Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
  • Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in

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
  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • white luck-e-strike 110
  • small slgos

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
  • 4 oz
  • frozen squid
  • Spinner rigs with colored beads and buck tail fished along the bottom with a squid strip and spearing added
  • sabikis
  • double hook rig either let it drift or sink it and jig

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

  • small spinners and very small rapala's
  • spearing/sqid
  • white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white
  • 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.
  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer
  • Thomas spinner
  • Thomas Spinner
  • yellow rooster tail 1/8th

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

Terrestrial Check Prices

  • Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

  • same bps worm
  • 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.
  • using the sinko melon with gold flake
  • i use the keitech ayu worms and a regular green with gold fleck sinko
  • 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.
  • watermelon gold flake
  • used both watermelon and green pumpkin
  • red tube sandworm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • dark worm very slow
  • carolina rig

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 4oz buck tail with a strip of squid and live mummy chub.
    a 14inch non weighted trailer with a yellow skirt & live mummy
  • i was using a keitech 2" spider, and my partner was throwing there 4" worm. Both were working
  • 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
  • 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.
  • black/silver shad killers

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

  • deadly dick
  • deadly dick,hopkins

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • Moby Worm
  • Platium Blonde 1/0 and olive flatwing deceiver 1/0
  • 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
  • Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM
  • Flatwing Deceiver
  • 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
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow
  • 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

  • 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 :)
  • Used the classic worm and a bobber...werent expecting to catch anything big, and we didnt, but still a fun time.
  • Nightcrawler hooked weedless
  • 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

  • D DICK
  • 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.
  • Silver Diamond Jigs
  • Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • BLUE/WHITE POPPER
  • slow and steady retrieve
  • 2 0z Zara Spook
    9" Sluggo(White)

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

Grub Check Prices

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
  • buck tails yellow or white with pork rind trailer , yellow darters, slingging eels at night
  • blue crab
  • big crab!
  • Eels
    Squid

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