Fishing near Poquonock Bridge in New London County, CT

3.5 Rating based on 152 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Striped Bass, Largemouth Bass, Scup (Porgy), Blackfish, Bluefish, Other (Saltwater)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 90
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 234
  •  
  • Discuss Poquonock Bridge area fishing in our Connecticut Fishing Forum

Poquonock Bridge Fishing Photos

Mystic Pizza near Poquonock Bridge

Mystic Pizza

This is the location where the movie "Mystic Pizza" with Julia Roberts was filmed
Added by: overstdr
View Full Size
Mystic Pizza near Poquonock Bridge

Mystic Pizza

A Slice of Heaven
Added by: overstdr
View Full Size
A couple of Black fish I caught near Poquonock Bridge

A couple of Black fish I caught

Black fish are an awesome fighter, and excellent table fare as well.
Added by: aqualung
View Full Size
Our Catch near Poquonock Bridge

Our Catch

These are the fish my buddy and I managed in a few hours
Added by: aqualung
View Full Size
S & P Oyster House View near Poquonock Bridge

S & P Oyster House View

Great view of the Mystic River. The food is excellent.
Added by: overstdr
View Full Size

Top Fishing Spots near Poquonock Bridge

Fishers Island Sound
Fishers Island Sound

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 621

Thames River
Thames River

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 13480

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

Race Point
Race Point

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 395

Brandegee Lake
Brandegee Lake

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

Poquonock Bridge Area Fish Species

Recent Poquonock Bridge Fishing Reports

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...

No Reviews Views:
Review Report
Created by: angryjohn
Map It
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...

No Reviews Views:
Review Report
Created by: angryjohn
Map It
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...

No Reviews Views:
Review Report
Created by: angryjohn
Map It
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...

No Reviews Views:
Review Report
Created by: aqualung
Map It
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....

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1 Views:
Review Report
Created by: rogerhey
Map It
avery point Fishing Report Aug 18, 2012

avery point

avery point, groton ct -

went to avery point and used squid for bait. i was fishin for porgys, and caught a pretty nice one about ten inches. i had a rough time with the small...

No Reviews Views:
Review Report
Created by: jweeks1357
Map It

Baits and Tackle used near Poquonock Bridge

Check Prices

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

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
  • 4 oz
  • frozen squid
  • Spinner rigs with colored beads and buck tail fished along the bottom with a squid strip and spearing added
  • sabikis

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
  • gulp
  • 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
  • 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
  • blue black worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • dark worm very slow
  • carolina rig

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • i was using a keitech 2" spider, and my partner was throwing there 4" worm. Both were working
  • 4oz buck tail with a strip of squid and live mummy chub.
    a 14inch non weighted trailer with a yellow skirt & live mummy
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 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.
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 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
  • 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)

Herring Check Prices

  • Fresh Chunked Herring
  • Chunks of Atlantic menhaden

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Used the classic worm and a bobber...werent expecting to catch anything big, and we didnt, but still a fun time.
  • 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 :)
  • 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
  • blue crab
  • big crab!
  • buck tails yellow or white with pork rind trailer , yellow darters, slingging eels at night
  • Eels
    Squid

Stay Updated

Sign up for our weekly newsletter to stay updated on Poquonock Bridge fishing and other Connecticut fishing. You'll also receive community updates, invites to try new features and promotions from our partners.

CT Fish Finder

Social Links