West Side Pond is a reservoir in Connecticut, near Northwest Hills County.
Stocking records show that the following fish or strains were stocked here. A historical stocking does not by itself prove that a self-sustaining population remains today.
West Side Pond covers 42 acres in the Northwest Hills region. The verified maximum depth at West Side Pond is 33 feet.
The verified 33-foot maximum gives West Side Pond enough depth for fish to move away from the bank without turning the lake into a purely open-water fishery.
Fish reported from West Side Pond include banded killifish, black crappie, bluegill, brown bullhead, chain pickerel, channel catfish, common carp, common shiner, eastern creek chubsucker, golden shiner, largemouth bass, longear sunfish, redbreast sunfish, rock bass, smallmouth bass, white sucker, and yellow perch. Brown trout and rainbow trout are listed separately as stocked in West Side Pond. The stocking entry is a management record for West Side Pond, not a promise that those fish will be present at every spot or on every trip.
Begin the largemouth search on West Side Pond with a moving bait, then pick apart wood or weeds with a worm. A small paddletail or crayfish imitation fits the open, rocky water used by West Side Pond smallmouth.
For West Side Pond crappie, hold a 1/16-ounce jig or minnow beside wood instead of dragging it through snags. Bluegill in West Side Pond are practical targets with a worm or small jig suspended beside shallow cover. Yellow perch in West Side Pond are commonly caught with a small jig tipped with a minnow or worm near bottom.
Chain pickerel in West Side Pond can be found with spoons, spinnerbaits and small swimbaits along vegetation.
Fish one shoreline slowly before crossing the water on West Side Pond. Then compare incoming water, the old channel and a point leading toward the deeper end of West Side Pond.
A sunny spring afternoon can pull West Side Pond fish toward dark bottom, wood and new vegetation. Summer fish in West Side Pond may feed shallow at dawn before settling beside cover or deeper structure. Cooling water can bring West Side Pond fish back to points and banks where bait gathers.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.