Fishing near Saybrook Manor in Middlesex County, CT

Check Prices

• soft shad killers on a jig-head. black/silver color pattern.
• Kastmaster
• bottom fishing with sand worms
• using a small keitech spider 2"
• bottom fishin with sand warms 34 feet of water
• shad 9ers trolling rigs
• spearing squid strip
• shad trolling rig by 9ers rigs
• live worms
• live sand worms

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Meelworms and yellow powerbait nuggets
• Sandworms and Squid
• eel
• live eals
• eel, frozen squid
• nightcrawlers
• Sandworm

Tube Check Prices

• Only hitting the tube and worm. Fish on every 50-100 yard run.
• tube and worm (sand worm)
• 1"inch pumpkin seed tube

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

• Mummies
• large shiners
• Minnows and Rapalas
• Golden shiner
• Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
• drifting minnows small weights right off the bottom and useing some rubber baits with lead jig heads bouncing them off the bottom

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• spook style bait
• Bass pro 3.5 inch black silver popper
• i was using my silver and black BPS popper, until i lost it in a tree, another lure lost to the pond kings

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• I used a 5" White Jerk Shad on a 1/4 white jig head.

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

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Green and bright orange frog.

Squid Check Prices

• sabikis
• frozen squid
• Spinner rigs with colored beads and buck tail fished along the bottom with a squid strip and spearing added
• put a sinker on it and dropped it to the bottom
• 4 oz

Streamer Check Prices

• We had the most luck fishing with muddler minnows and black ghosts. Also had success using green and white wholly buggers. Stay below the surface this time of year. Blue winged olives and other mayflies could be a good option as well.
• freshwater fly to immitate a bait fish, colors i used were yellow, purple, and blue

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 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.
• Thomas single blade gold spinner.
• I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.
• white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white
• Black/white spin-fly
• Caught using a rooster tail. Snagged it in the neck, so were not sure if it was actually interested in the lure.
• small spinners and very small rapala's

Dry Fly Check Prices

• Caught on a yellow sally size 14. Had a bite using a yellow and red streamer.
• Caught using a yellow haired caddis ~#16 size.
• Yellow drakes and orange/yellow sulfers.
• Used a tan caddis #14 or so size. Such a small fish, probably not even worth recording, but oh well at least got something. Took quick photo and let em go.

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• strips
• braid jig shiners squid strips
• skate
• gulp
• jigs
• squid
• sqid
• Hammered Jig

Terrestrial Check Prices

• Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Nymph Check Prices

• A cross between a pheasant tail and a copper jack.
• Green bh nymph
• Nymphs, muddler minnows, and black ghosts all returned results
• Green nymphs worked well.
  
  Also had luck with white streamers, muddler minnows, and zonkers.

Worm Check Prices

• Sand worms
• deep green senco rig with red fleck, silver pop-par was used to catch a two pounder
• green 6in worm on a knuckle head jig
• used both watermelon and green pumpkin
• watermelon gold flake
• Watermelon senco,5"
• Sandworms worked best, but squid slivers did OK
• soft plastic worm, rigged weedless, purple with blue flecks in it
• using the sinko melon with gold flake
• drop shot wacky style red black senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Plastic sluggo worm

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• black/silver shad killers
• i was using a keitech 2" spider, and my partner was throwing there 4" worm. Both were working
• 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.

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

• deadly dick,hopkins

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

• Flies- Platinum Blonde 1/0, Gray white Flat wing Deceiver2/0 chartruese Closar 1/0
• Flatwing Deceiver
• Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM
• Sight casting to stripers on the flats off Garniers Island Ny
• Epoxy Bay Anchovie Pattern Size 2
• 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
• Platium Blonde 1/0 and olive flatwing deceiver 1/0
• Olive Flat wing deceiver, popper
• Moby Worm

Craw Check Prices

• Green/brown d-bomb with a 1/2oz weight and 5/0 wide gap hook

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Tube & Worm
• White Sassy shad
• Buzz bait (black blade & black skirt)
• Swimming plug
• Chatter bait, minnow/spinner
• Sandworms

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• floating Minnow
• Plastic cricket
• #11 minnow rapala

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

• kvd
• kvd black chartreuse squairbill
• 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.
• Rapala blue crankbait
• Chubby Bluegill crankbait
• Chubby bluegill crankbait
• trolled outskirts of weed beds

Bass Jig Check Prices

• my regular watermelon red flake
• Stanley 1/4 oz jig head and net bait paca chunk in black trailer.
• little stanley 1/4 round head jig with black paca craw

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Pearl Suggos!
• i was using a 4.8 inch fat swing impact
• keitech 4" AYU
• Keitech ayu
• dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?
• Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
• same as usual

Wet Fly Check Prices

• purple and white fly to immitate bait fish
• Wolly bugger, orange

Lake Pattern Check Prices

• Drop shot and finesse worms

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• Blue/silver Castmaster with bucktail

Herring Check Prices

• Chunks of Atlantic menhaden
• Fresh Chunked Herring

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• fish under lights and throw somethin shinny about 3 feet down
• baby bass color fast retrieve with sharp jerks
• Blaze Rattle Baits (Aqua/Chartreuse Belly and Firetiger)

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Green crabs cut in half
• Green crabs cut in half on a 4/0
  Gamakatsu Octopus hook

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• 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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• BLUE/WHITE POPPER

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Mepps Comet 1

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• Green bucktail with red pork rind on 3way
• Bucktails tipped with Squid/spearing. Brian caught the 9lber on bait rod with large silverside
• Bucktail tipped with squid/spearing

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Toped with spike or gulp for sunnies. Or a shiner and little nipper for crappie.
• Spikes with gulp maggots

Other Check Prices

• any thing works chunkbait, live bait, sand worms, squid strips , lures
• Eels and squid
• chicken
• big crab!
• blue crab
• chunk bait clams or fish bluefis rigs and 2 to 3 oz weight
• mealworm
• meal worms
• crabs
• blue crab on chicken