Fishing near West Haven in New Haven County, CT

3.57 Rating based on 65 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Trout, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Striped Bass, White Perch, Bluefish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 57
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 93
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CT, WEAKFISH near West Haven

CT, WEAKFISH

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little stuff--good for kids near West Haven

little stuff--good for kids

close to parking lot
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Maltby Lake near West Haven

Maltby Lake

fished the cove on the west side of Lake #2
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Maltby Lake near West Haven

Maltby Lake

Was having no luck, moved over the to the dam and ran a worm up the face of the dam, caught this bass on the first cast
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Top Fishing Spots near West Haven

New Haven Harbor
New Haven Harbor

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
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Maltby Lake #3
Maltby Lake #3

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Quinnipiac River
Quinnipiac River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 9087

Lake Wintergreen
Lake Wintergreen

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Lake Wintergreen
Lake Wintergreen

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# Reviews:
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Lake Saltonstall
Lake Saltonstall

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
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West Haven Area Fish Species

Recent West Haven Fishing Reports

Maltby Lakes Fishing Report Jul 07, 2009

Maltby Lakes

Maltby Lakes, West Haven, CT -

west cove of Lake #2...

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Maltby 9-25-09 Fishing Report Sep 25, 2009

Maltby 9-25-09

Maltby Lakes, West Haven, CT -

West cove, Lake #2. My favorite spot has been productive this week!...

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Maltby, 9-23-09 Fishing Report Sep 23, 2009

Maltby, 9-23-09

Maltby Lakes, West Haven, CT -

West Cove of Lake #2...

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Maltby Lakes Fishing Report Jun 25, 2010

Maltby Lakes

Maltby Lakes -

early morning fishing caught large mouth bass...

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Maltby Lake 8-27-09 Fishing Report Aug 27, 2009

Maltby Lake 8-27-09

Maltby Lakes, West Haven, CT -

West Cove of Lake #2...

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Maltby Lake, 8-5-09 Fishing Report Aug 05, 2009

Maltby Lake, 8-5-09

Maltby Lakes, West Haven, CT -

Out this morning for a little fishing. Was having no luck. Moved over to the dam and ran a Powerbait 4" worm up the face of the dam, got a nice ...

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Baits and Tackle used near West Haven

Check Prices

  • jig worm
  • Shad rap
  • worms and gulp minnows
  • slug go silver sware by them
  • Bunker Chuncks
  • Surface lure after sunset.
  • Rap Minnow in yellow perch pattern.
  • i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
  • THIS WAS CAUGHT USING AN OLD SCHOOL SILVER JOHNSON SPRITE SPOON
  • was fishing for trout
    Rig:
    barrel swivel
    leader
    red hook
    power bait marshmallows
    meal worm

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • nightcrawlers
  • night crawlers, meal worms
  • nightcrawlers, meal worms
  • Meelworms and yellow powerbait nuggets

Tube Check Prices

  • 1"inch pumpkin seed tube

Creature Check Prices

  • strike king hellgramite
    strike rocket shad
  • D Bomb, greenish brown
  • misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown

Minnow Check Prices

  • Slow troll wife minnows,drifting on top

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Surface popper
  • cut bait ,top water popers.
  • poppers and walkers
  • spook style bait

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spiner .Rooster tail.
  • Nothing special spinnerbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Green and bright orange frog.
  • 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

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz chartruse n white

Dry Fly Check Prices

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.

Worm Check Prices

  • Yamamoto 5" worm
  • Yamamoto 5" green worm
  • Powerbait 4" worm
  • Powerbait, 4"
  • i saw someone else catch afish
  • Gary Yams Baby Bass Color
  • Sandworms worked best, but squid slivers did OK
  • zoom pumpkinseed
  • Oxblood Purple stripe, Green hot tip
  • zoom green weenie

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Power Worm, Phoebe
  • Sluggo but just to tell you get alot blue fish rip them up
  • Buzz bait (black blade & black skirt)
  • Lucky Craft, American shad pointer 4 inch

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • clouser minnows and half N half's do well.

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • trolled outskirts of weed beds
  • Rapala blue crankbait

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • silver slug-go sware by them
  • berkley gulp(minnows)

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • trout worms & nightcrawlers
  • swivel hook texas rigged
  • wiggler
  • used Euro crawlers,and trout worms.fished the bottom.got snagged a few times,lost tackel,,tipical....
  • bobber
  • float worm without leader down in river

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • baby bass color fast retrieve with sharp jerks

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps Comet 1

Grub Check Prices

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

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • 1/16 white road runner in current with a reeling and jigging motion

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Spikes with gulp maggots

Other Check Prices

  • cut bait fresh bunker.
  • yellow power bait
  • Canned Corn
  • Mealworm
  • i used yellow power bait
  • chunk bait clams or fish bluefis rigs and 2 to 3 oz weight

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