Fishing near Avon in Norfolk County, MA

Check Prices

• Crank baits shallow diving and top water minnow all dark colors to match the dark water and area
• total junk fishing day caught them on plastics cranks topwater buzzers spinners no strong pattern other than rocks trumped grass
• Standard BPS Red/White 3" Popper and a purple/black spinner bait
• earthworm
• white spinner bait
• buzzbait and slug
• Rubber worms, swimbaits
• Powerbait and floating a worm off the bottom...
• Powerbait
• Nightcrawler

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• Shiner one foot below float.
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• SEAWORMS
• Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.
• Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
  one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
• Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
• Live eels
• We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers

Creature Check Prices

• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• Black and Blue as usual
• Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
• Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
• Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
  -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
• 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'.

Tube Check Prices

• tube dark...
• use small tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• white tube

Minnow Check Prices

• medium-sized shiner
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• shiners
• We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
• Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
• Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
• 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
• Caught by a friend on a shiner.
• Shiners under a bobber.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• White Mouse
• basic top water pencil popper type lure.
• Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
• BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern
• BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
• 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.
• Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
• Rebel Popper
• Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
• Rebel Pop-R

Lizard Check Prices

• Red/Red
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• green w/ red fleck

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• baby bass berkley slug
• berkley slug
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• red 5" Senko
• Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
• rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
• KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
• Sluggo
• This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
• 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Green Popper Frog Fly
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• small spinerbait bluegill color
• using a curly tailed soft bait on the jig hook - slow to moderate retrieve, just enough to keep the spinners going and the bait a foot below the surface.
• H&H spinnerbait with blue/chartreuse skirt
• Arbogast Jitterbug and Rebel Buzz'n Frog
• Rebel Buzz'n Frog
• white spinner bait with white curly tail grub
• 3/16 white spinnerbait
  
  burned near surface
• 2lb on a Berkley slug Big bass ona spinnerbait
• SPinnerbait double willows tried with several speeds. Also used minus1 crankbait slow rolled.
• managed 2 bass 1 perch and a sunfish. Small bass and the panfish were on a j9 and the big girl came on a buzzbait.

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Weedless Topwater Frog
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
• Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.
  
  Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
• Strike King Rage Toad
• chartreuse SnagProof frog
• Spro Frog
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper

Streamer Check Prices

• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

• I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
• seinko 5" junebug purple
• RC jerkbait did most of the heavy lifting. It caught 7 0f the 8 bass 5 of the 7 pickles and 1 sunnie.
  
  Also caught a bass on a spinnerbait and 2 pickles on a minus
• slow action on jerkbait long pauses
• small ultra lite baits
  
  many species of fish caught over the years; trout, salmon, largemouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, calico bass, pickerel, blue gills.
  The 100 is estimated
• I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
• Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
• Rapala jerkbait
• I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
• a lot of plastic worms work out.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
• Panther Martin
• mepps agalia
• gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
• Rooster Tail
• Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
• Mepps Agila #1 silver.
• Gold spinner
• Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
• Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• Various jigs worked along with different teasers

Worm Check Prices

• Grape worm texes rig
• Green Worm, Texas Rig
• senko baby bass 5"
• Berkley Powerbait
• Rootbeer senko
• Wacky-rigged dark green flaked worm
• green bass pro worm with purple flakes
• Pink Strike King Finesse Worm
• caught 1 on senko worm, 1 on spinner bait, 1 on Rebel minnow
• 5" baby bass senko & popper

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Storm shad mullet color
• Storm Shad Minnow
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Small swim bait. Also my 12 year old son caught one on a shiner. From this and previous trips, seen some close to a pound in here. Pretty decent size for a perch.
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• xps swimbait
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• A mix of 6" to 1lb
• 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
  2 shorts, and 2 lost
• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• All between 6" & 9"
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• Crank and buzzbait
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• Worm, and Spinnerbait
  
  1.48lbs, and three 1lbers
  
  4 shorts
• Dropshot
• 1 Keeper barely 12"
  The rest were in the 8"-11"range
• Drop Shot
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
• Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
  1st was a little over a 1lb
  2nd was 12"
  3rd was 2lbs 2oz
• 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
  The rest were in the 8"-11" range
• Chatterbait, Swimbait, Jig, Dropshot
  My Limit was 2lb 6oz, 2lb 5oz, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 7oz, and 1lb 6oz
  
  what didn't make the cut:
  two 1lb 6oz
  half a dozen between 1-1/4lb & 1lb
  one 14oz
  one short

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 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.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• zoom bass love em super fluke
• Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
• Powerbait
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Black senko worm
• Black senko rubber worm
• Rapala Original #7
• Rooster Tail
• Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
• Rapala F-5 Original

Craw Check Prices

• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Rapala Jerkbait
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
• blue silver reble
• 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
• blue reble
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

• metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

• slow slow slow presentation
• j9 black/gold
• Most fish caught on a j9 bronze color but did get a few on soft plastics and the biggest on a hollow body swim-bait.
• was slowly fishing a deep crank that floats letting it float to top after each crank then BANG these little suckers came right up on it
• Mid depth crankbait straight retrieve.
• worked quickly with pauses and jerks
• shallow diver with sunfish pattern
• KVD 1.0 square bill crank bait TN Shad
• KVD Square Bill 1.0 TN Shad 2-4ft depth
• Rapala XRap

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
• Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
• Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.
  
  YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
• manns stone 3/8 jig
• flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
• 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
• Strike King Bass Jig
• Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 5" and 6" Senko
• Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
• Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
• yamamoto swimsenko
• Storm 2in Perch

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• gold little cleo
• Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
• 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
• Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
• regular silver spoon
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Live night crawler on a drop shot.
• trout worms
• Just worms nothing special.
• i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
• cast it to the side near the littel pump house but farther out
• just put a nightcarwler on there and drop nit in ull have a bass as soon as u look blink
• fish on the bottom water is hot and deep

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• rattler
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
• a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits

Herring Check Prices

• Live lining mackeral

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms
• Clams
• Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.
• medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper Fishing
• Popper fishing off the boat
• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
• Popper fishing
• 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...

Grub Check Prices

• Berkley white grub with a tail.
• Berkley White Grub.
• Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
• Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.

Live Baits Check Prices

• Seaworms
• Fresh Cut Pogies
• Sea Worms
• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

• Powerbait
• Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
• Cut mackerel
• Black Spinner Bait
  
  
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• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
• Fresh, chunked mackerel.
• Fresh, caught that day, small mackerels. Steel leader, size 8 hook.
• Chunked mackerel. Fresh. Baitshop frozen doesn't make the cut here...
• Power bait