Fishing near Southington in Hartford County, CT

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• was fishing for trout
  Rig:
  barrel swivel
  leader
  red hook
  power bait marshmallows
  meal worm
• Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
• Surface lure after sunset.
• Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger
• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• minnow live
• slug go silver sware by them
• THIS WAS CAUGHT USING AN OLD SCHOOL SILVER JOHNSON SPRITE SPOON
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait
• Drifting

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• you should be able to use almost anything here. I perfer rooster tails and spinners. Meal worms and trout worms work just as well.
• night crawlers, meal worms
• nightcrawlers, 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.
• Sandworm
• Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble
• eel
• eels!
• eels

Creature Check Prices

• D Bomb, greenish brown
• misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown
• strike king hellgramite
  strike rocket shad
• All were caught on a Brush Hog plastic.

Tube Check Prices

• 1"inch pumpkin seed tube

Minnow Check Prices

• same old
• Slow troll wife minnows,drifting on top
• Minnows and Rapalas
• Drifting
• Golden shiner
• medium size minnow on waited bobber.
• small size minnow
• used smalls up to mommalukes.
• Drifting with live minnows
• Drifting with a live minnow

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Rubber frog
• spook style bait
• Surface popper
• poppers and walkers
• Popper, Color Gold and black
• cut bait ,top water popers.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• spiner .Rooster tail.
• Blue/Green
• Booyah spinnerbaits,Some crankbaits

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 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.
• Black and Red Rubber Frog
• Green and bright orange frog.

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.

Stick Bait Check Prices

• 1/4 oz chartruse n white
• White and Red stick bait
• Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
• Rapala Original

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Caught using a rooster tail. Snagged it in the neck, so were not sure if it was actually interested in the lure.
• rainbow phoebe
• and corn
• Rubber worms, Mepps,Blue Fox Vibrax,Spinnerbait
• blue fox
• black Rooster tail
• little rooster
• Black/white spin-fly
• I caught mine on a mepps #5 rainbow trout spinner, and cloud used a jointed rapala.
• rooster tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

• blue winged olive
• Caught on a yellow sally size 14. Had a bite using a yellow and red streamer.
• Yellow drakes and orange/yellow sulfers.
• Caught using a yellow haired caddis ~#16 size.
• 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.
• Bait Details

Nymph Check Prices

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

Worm Check Prices

• Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig
• 4" Watermelon Senko
• strike king shimm-e-stik
  baby bass color
• zoom pumpkinseed
• oxe blood roboworm
• oxblood senko
• Zoom green Weenie
• zoom green weenie trick worm
• Gary Yams Baby Bass Color
• casting into weed bed

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Plastic sluggo worm
• jig heads and swim baits
• SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD
• Senco stretch 40
• jig heads / swim tails

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Kastmaster lure, heavy top water hits
• Kastmaster
• Scum Frogs
• Power Worm, Phoebe
• Buzz bait (black blade & black skirt)
• Sandworms
• Lucky Craft, American shad pointer 4 inch
• Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
• Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
• litle plastic minnows

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• #11 minnow rapala
• bbz-1 shad blue back herring color
• Rebel Crawfish Lure

Crankbait Check Prices

• Rapala blue crankbait
• Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.
• 4" floating minnow
• Yozuri
• spook
• spooks
• Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
• rattletrap
• rapala lipless baby bass
• Baby Bass

Bass Jig Check Prices

• white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• berkley gulp(minnows)
• fin-s
• weighted Sluggo
• Powerbait minnows Drop shot
• silver slug-go sware by them
• yellow
• white paddle tail
• Pearl Suggos!

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly bugger, orange

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• used Euro crawlers,and trout worms.fished the bottom.got snagged a few times,lost tackel,,tipical....
• wiggler
• good cove for pan fish.. a few time's last year
• Euro Crawler so not as big fit on the hook nicely.the on i got was about 11" and 2/3 of a #
• Just fished on a hook
• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
• Rapalas and Nightcrawlers
• swivel hook texas rigged
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• baby bass color fast retrieve with sharp jerks
• clacking rap
• red craw by bill lewis

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• 2 inch, color gold and white

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Mepps Comet 1
• purple rooster tail & live minnows

Grub Check Prices

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

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer
• 1/16 white road runner in current with a reeling and jigging motion

Live Baits Check Prices

• eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• purple
• Spikes with gulp maggots

Other Check Prices

• i used yellow power bait
• Mealworm
• yellow power bait
• Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.
• corn
• eel
• hot dog dipped in Anise oil
• meal worms
• mealworm
• cut bait fresh bunker.