Fishing near Simsbury in Hartford County, CT

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• mixed color senkos
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait
• Chartreuse spinner bait
• 1/4 oz carolina lizard
• minnow live
• my bait of choice for deep bass fishing in this spot is bouncing crawdads off the bottom or carolina rigged pumpkin seed power bait worms
• spinner baits or buzz baits or small rapalas work very good here. live shiners hooked through the nose casted and retreved with a small split shot 6 inch in front of it works good too
• a good choice of bait for highland lake is shiners down about 13 feet with a weight to keep them down or nightcrawler allways work good too!!
• decent spot, watch for shallow rocks, about 10 to 12 feet beyond the point, very acessable with a canoe
• Fly Fishing - Black BH Wolly Bugger

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Nightcrallers & worms
• They are biting sand worms and blood worms
• They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
• eel
• Meal worm
  Lures
  Powerbait
• you should be able to use almost anything here. I perfer rooster tails and spinners. Meal worms and trout worms work just as well.
• eels!
• eels
• Golden Pond Shiner live lined on a treble
• I use meal worms here, power bait, trout worms and lures. The fish bite here off almost everything.

Creature Check Prices

• D Bomb, greenish brown
• misslebait D Bomb, greenish brown

Minnow Check Prices

• same old
• Drifting with live minnows
• Drifting with a live minnow
• medium size minnow on waited bobber.
• used smalls up to mommalukes.
• small size minnow
• large shinners with a bobber
• Drifting
• Minnows and Rapalas

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Rubber frog
• Popper, Color Gold and black
• Lunker city Salad Spoon
• Popper

Lizard Check Prices

• 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard
• 1/4 oz c rig lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• White rooster tail
• White Rooster Tail
• Phoebe and Rooster Tail
• White 3/8 Strike King
• Booyah spinnerbaits,Some crankbaits
• Blue/Green
• spinnerbait , plastic worms

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
• Rapala Original
• 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
• Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
• Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
• White and Red stick bait

Dry Fly Check Prices

• Bait Details
• test
• blue winged olive

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• rooster tail
• blue fox
• black Rooster tail
• little rooster
• meppes
• white tailed
• rainbow phoebe
• and corn
• Rubber worms, Mepps,Blue Fox Vibrax,Spinnerbait

Nymph Check Prices

• PT

Worm Check Prices

• Yamamotos Senko...green
  no luck on spinners and cranks
• yum dinger watermelon
• watermelon yum dinger
• watermelon seed yum dinger
• spoom work well to.
• 4" Watermelon Senko
• 4 inch Green Pumpkin Yamamoto Senco
• Senkos and Tiger/perch cranks
• senko
• Rattlin Ned by Googan Squad on a Texas Rig

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Shrimp Bait Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• litle plastic minnows
• Kastmaster
• Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
• Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
• Kastmaster lure, heavy top water hits
• small swimming minnow soft bait
• Scum Frogs
• Sandworms

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• rattletrap
• Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
• spook
• spooks
• Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.
• 4" floating minnow
• Yozuri
• nofish but I know they're here sometimes
• booya crankbaits brown and green
• spinner bait
  yamos
  crankbaits

Bass Jig Check Prices

• white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• white paddle tail
• yellow
• weighted Sluggo
• fin-s
• berkley gulp(minnows)
• Powerbait minnows Drop shot

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
• Trout worn with a single split shop weight
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
• One caught on a crawler , one caught on a live minnow
• ok i have caught fish here with everything lures, shiners, night crawlers and i have even caught LMB with sunfish that i had caught on the worm initially. In fact when i realized that a huge bass was hitting my sunfish and the hook was too small to catch it, i rigged a bigger hook threw the fish back out and pulled in a 5-7lb bass. It was the 5th fat bass for summer 2009
• caught sun fish after about 10 am. 1 small perch about 6in. fishing has been slow so far this season.
• Red Eye bass will hit alot of the time in most of the coves and downed trees
• Just fished on a hook

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• red craw by bill lewis
• clacking rap

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• 2 inch, color gold and white

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish
• purple rooster tail & live minnows
• Mepps Comet 1

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Live Baits Check Prices

• eel

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• purple

Other Check Prices

• hot dog dipped in Anise oil
• eel
• YELLOW GRUB
  WEIGHTS
  BIG HOOKS
• We use #2 hooks with leaders and tie them to our line
  A 3 oz weight to hold it on the bottom
• corn
• Chicken Liver
• rainbow or green powerbait
• Yellow Perch Chunks, Nightcrawlers, and Sandworms.
• i used yellow power bait
• Mealworm