Fishing near Ashland in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• Caught one on a 5" gray with purple fleck Yamamoto Senko immediately followed by another on a yellow & green crankbait.
• Chartruese Egg Power Bait
• Large topwater popper.
• White Wooly Bugger
• Pulling into the access point, I find this...
• Silver lipless crank bait
• Yo Mama Senko
  The Big ones Gasoline Green
• weedless jig with worm
• Kivas from the Sud
  Senkos
• 3 on dark green Senkos
  1 on a Popper
  1 on a Rattle Trap

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Chartreuse Powerbait
• slug
• worm
• Large and XL Shiners
• Large Minnows
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• White suckers
• Big Kiva
• Yellow Perch

Tube Check Prices

• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• minitube flourescent
• use small tube
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• June Bug tube
• tube dark...
• june bug tubes

Creature Check Prices

• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• Gary Yamomoto Kreature, red and black, or green with black specks...on the top, twitched through the weeds, slime, or open water. Sometimes I let it sink to the bottom and twitch it slightly. The one that got away was of course, huge. I'm bummin'.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz

Minnow Check Prices

• I found that using medium shiners with a bass hook hooked through the back of the tail worked best. The bait seems to stay much more lively that way.
• shiner
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• small minnows, pretty active
• minnows and night crawlers and one on a crank bait. They were suspended up high today so all you had to do was drop the lure or bait with no weight and just sit there and wait for them to gulp it down
• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• Kivas
  Shinners
• Not sure exactly what kind of bait fish it was, since I found it wriggling at the water's edge - my guess is a shiner or shad.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Black jitter bug.
• Jitter Bug
• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Popper
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

• 8" Pumpkinseed
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• Red/Red
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• green w/ red fleck

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
• Two 1lb Pickerel

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Again Dat food( shrimplies and gold) and feed corn were present. We also tried a packbait of Limeycarper, as well as bread, strawberry canned corn, and luncheon meat.
  
  
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  
• Green Popper Frog Fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Spinner white/green with silver/gold blades
• Strike King® KVD Spinnerbaits - Double Willow Color Sexy Shad
• 3/16oz Black Buzzbait
• a crankbait with a spinner attached on the front.
• rooster tail
• white and red tandem colorado
  long tail
• firetiger tandem silver willow spinnerbait, with a split tail chartruese trailer.
• white skirt
• Green Bleeder
• Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Spro Frog
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• yellow paddle tail frog. we saw a break in the water and knew there was a good fish. hit it a few times till he got him to take it.
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser
• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• All morning chain pickerel were hitting my plastic lures, but not taking any hooks. One did manage to bite my power worm in just the right spot however, and gave a nice fight. After that I threw a newly acquired Rapala Husky Jerk around, and got an even nicer pickerel in return! If anyone wants that lure, it's still there, stuck in a tree branch.
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  ***Two 4in, One 8in, one 8 1/2in
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  ***
  1st one was 8 1/2in 7oz
  2nd one was 8in 4oz
• 1st fish of the night
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6 Rooster Tail
• 1/8 rooster tail.
• 5in and 9in Bass
• All 4 and 5 inch Bass

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• 5" senko oxblood purple, 5" senko pumpkin w/black & green flecks. Big surprise was a new 1 I found, a 4" senko smoke pearl blue..got a fish every time with the new blue 1!!
• Senko green pumpkin magic
• senko green pumpkin magic
• Senko
  2nd. 13-3/4in 1lb 3oz
  3rd. 10in
• Lunker City Spanky
• Senko
• Lunker City Spanky - Two 10" Bass
• 5 inch Slug-go. Brown speckled
• 5" Senko. Bubblegum.
• Used a bubblegum 5" senko, buried hook point, no weights. Bounced off bottom.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• xps swimbait
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Storm Shad Minnow
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch

Hard Baits Check Prices

• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• Crank and buzzbait
• 1lb 10oz was the only one to make the limit.
  
  1lb 6oz, 1-1/4lber culled out
  
  a couple other 1-1/4lb to 1lbers, and some shorts
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• All between 6" & 9"
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• Drop Shot
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• Dropshot
• Dropshot Sluggo
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• Worms, Jigs, and 1 on topwater early
  
  My contribution to the limit was a 3-1/2lber
  
  The rest were 2lbs to 3/4lbs mostly
• Jigs & Worms
  Our Limit:
  Chuck had a 3lber
  I had a 4lber, 3-1/4lber, 3lber, and 1-3/4lber
  
  The rest from 1-3/4lbs to shorts
• one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake
• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead
• 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.
• 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster Tail
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
• 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
  4 on Rooster Tail
• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail
• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
  Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait
• Rapala F-5 Original
• Rocket Shad Spinnerbait
• White and blue Spinnerbait

Craw Check Prices

• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• crawdads and soft frogs
• Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
• Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• SPRO BBZ1
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• Rapala Jerkbait

Jigs Check Prices

• jig n pig
• 11" on Shaky Head
  15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
• Our Limit was :
  My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz
  
  1lb and under on the rest
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Perch
• Bass Pro Shops XPS Lazer Eye Hardbaits - Super Shallow Crank in Homer color.
• Rapala F-7 Original - Minnow
• small crankbait
• a variety of crankbaits and rooster tails.
• crankbaits all day
• rapala
• nicholas got his on a perch rapala. i stuck to the yum worm all day. surprisingly got 2 pickerel on it.
• nothing worked but the crankbaits tonight.
• he was using a long lipped crankbait made to dive 8 feet. i recommended against it because the weeds are only a couple of feet below the surface. he worked it slow and it paid off. what do i know, lol....

Bass Jig Check Prices

• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• 1st was 17-1/2in 2lb-3/4lb
  3rd was 12-1/2in 3/4lb
• Couple of 1-1/2lbers, couple of 1lber, and a 1/2lber
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• Threw a black on black 1/4 jig and #11 pork frog in the trees and a Koppers live target frog in the scum and pads
• SENKO(GREEN),SLUGO(BLUE)
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• Black blue 1/4 oz jig. Creature bait Trailor

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• Storm 2in Perch
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• silver spoon
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• Up on the more northern end of things, we hooked into a few Landlocked salmon bites. Mostly smaller guys, but a few just keepers. Dad hit them on a variety of lures, but all mine came in on Little Cleo spoons. Another species crossed off the bucket list!
• regular silver spoon
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• rattler
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• Greyish, green, red face
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• nice large nightcrawlers
• Kids materials
• live worm on float
• night crawler on a float
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
• chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• Dropshot

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail
• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.

Other Check Prices

• rooster tail
• Jigs, Craws, Swimbait, Dropshot, Chatterbait, Spinnerbait
  
  Two were 1-3/4lbs
  Five were 1-1/2lbs
  The rest were 1-1/4lbs and lower
• Berkley PowerBait
• SPINNER BAIT
• usually rubber worms
• power bait
• power bait off bottom
• Sweetcorn
• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• Again corn, white bread work well..I make much of my own dough bait or order some mixes through Wacker Baits