Fishing near Old Mystic in New London County, CT

Check Prices

• I was using a mepps #2 silver blade and white dressing
• live bait
• t n w and squid rig
• pearl strike king jerkbait
• pearl jerkbait
• Chartreuse Blonde
• white and silver rooster tail
• Squid
• keitech swing impact fat 4.8 ayu
• mummies

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

• tube and worm (sand worm)
• running a bass pro shops 3.5 inch tube. Little fish were having a hard time choking the bait down, but they managed.
• Only hitting the tube and worm. Fish on every 50-100 yard run.
• Fishing bass tube along weed edges and downed trees.

Creature Check Prices

• Brush Hog in the pads
• Switched to the watermelon seed baby brush hawg
• All were caught on a Brush Hog plastic.

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
• Fish where hitting hard on shiners, one hit be so hard my line broke at the bobber and the fish took it and the bobber never surfaced again!? there some very big fish here!
• used mostly live shiners,but when they ran out I was using a spinner bait and a surface frog and hitting pickerel and base, lots of Yellow perch here as well.
• Hitting it real well with shinners
• Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
• Mummies

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
• Calm 8 am small pond nice fish

Frog Bait Check Prices

Squid Check Prices

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

Streamer Check Prices

• freshwater fly to immitate a bait fish, colors i used were yellow, purple, and blue

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Green mini jerkbait 2-3 inches long caught most of the fish but no bass.
• Rapala slash bait
• white x-rap

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
• grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

Terrestrial Check Prices

• Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

• same bps worm
• BPS stick-o-worm 5 inch in watermelon red flake.
• 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.
• 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.
• using the sinko melon with gold flake
• blue black worm
• red tube sandworm
• Wacky worming any watermellon 5" sinko

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
• Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM
• Flatwing Deceiver
• 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
• 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
• Chatter bait, minnow/spinner
• I used powerbait rubber worms.
• Tube & Worm

Craw Check Prices

• Green/brown d-bomb with a 1/2oz weight and 5/0 wide gap hook
• yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• yo zurry
• floating Minnow
• Plastic cricket

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

• Bright blue Shadow Rap Shad.
• KVD 1.5
• shad rapala flat rap 10
• Strike king KVD bluegill 1.5
• 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.
• 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

• chili immage skirt and watermelon red yum beaver tail
• little stanley 1/4 round head jig with black paca craw
• green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
• war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
• my regular watermelon red flake
• 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

• 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
• i was using a 4.8 inch fat swing impact
• keitech 4" AYU
• Keitech ayu
• Pearl Suggos!

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)

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.
• night crawler on a rattling bobber lol
• Nightcrawler hooked weedless

Herring Check Prices

• Fresh Chunked Herring
• Chunks of Atlantic menhaden

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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• slow and steady retrieve
• BLUE/WHITE POPPER
• 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

• Live eel
• crabs
• greenies
• blue crab!
• chicken
• blue crab on chicken
• blue crab
• big crab!
• buck tails yellow or white with pork rind trailer , yellow darters, slingging eels at night
• Eels
  Squid