Fishing near Barre in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub
• Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
• 6" Senkos
• wacky worms and spinnerbaits
• smoke red flake senkos
• frogs and senkos
• senco
• Green with gold belly swim bait.
• 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
• 5 Keepers:
  2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  2 shorts

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
• 5 inch yellow perch
• Live Carwfish
• Big shiners
• Chung's Best
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• Shinners
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners
• Pike shinners, again
• Yellow Perch

Creature Check Prices

• They are called brush hogs, and manufactured by Zoom baits, sold at wal-mart.

Tube Check Prices

• june bug tube
• pumpkin seed tube
• Chartreuse pepper flack tube
• salt and pepper purple flake tube
• june bug tubes
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• June Bug tube

Minnow Check Prices

• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• you play the bait and bobber set up similar to the canal at the cape.I set the bait at about 24-27",sent it up curent and let it pass you reel it back and repeat.
• large shiners on trokar hooks
• fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
• 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.
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• Med Shiners
  Wish we had gotten some larger ones
• Medium shiner
• Chung's Best
• pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• Live Target Brown Mouse
• Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
• Fast retrieve

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
• Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.
• Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart
• Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
• Swimming the frog through the pads

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Rapala blue and white rattle
• X-Rap
• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• Asortment of spinners.
• Blue Fox Inline Minow
• Rooster Tail

Worm Check Prices

• Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
• gary yatommotto senko black with siver flake.
• senkos
• Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
• Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
  spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
• junebug w/blue fleck
• Gary Yamamoto™®
  5inch Watermelon/Lemon
  The lighting changes ALOT from summer to Autumn--So I tried something new
• I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
• Senko, Watermelon, Wacky-rigged
• Senko, Watermelon, Weedless-rigged

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• 6 inch light green senko
• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• Black worm with bright yellow tail

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
• Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
• Surprised I only got one today!
• Spider Grubs, Crankbait, Jig, Senko, Spinnerbait.
  A couple at 11-1/2", most between 10"-11"
• They hit everything! Jigs, Spinnerbait, Senko, Spider Grub, Crankbaits
• 1-1/4lber was my best
  bunch of 1lbers and shorts
• All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
• 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
  the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller
• Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
  The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
• 2-1/4lber was my best
  Bunch 1lbers, and shorts

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• Most were caught on a Trout Magnet . 1 on a Rapala and the other on aRooster Tail . Largest fish was the Last one caught . Trout magnet was the right bait to yse today.
• Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead
• 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake

Craw Check Prices

• Yammamoto flippin hog

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
• Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  

Jigs Check Prices

• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  

Crankbait Check Prices

• shallow running crank bait minus one.
• X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
• many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
• Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
• Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
• Same as Bass 1
• Same details as Bass 1

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Crawfish style.
• 4-1/4lb on a jig
  3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
  two 1lbers on buzzbait
  
• All on a swimjig
  
  My 9.75lb Limit was:
  2lbs 11oz
  2lbs 2oz
  2lbs 1oz
  1lb 8oz
  1lb 6oz
  
  5 more in the 1-1/4lb to 3/4lb range
• brown

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez
• 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
• Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• KVD 5" Caffeine Shad - Light Blue with Silver belly.
• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddletail Swimbait
• KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster
• 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!

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
• just a small piece
  

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• silver&blue kastmaster

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

• Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
  Booyah Frog
• Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
• Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
  Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body
• Trout Magnet
• Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
  One Brook Trout and one Rainbow.
• Trout Magnet Jigs
• Trout Magnet Jig

Other Check Prices

• yellow rubber powerbait eggs
• Big
  Dead
  
• Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
• White Bread
• Corn Corn Corn Corn
• Corn
  Lots of it
• Cheapest bait on the planet
• Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel
  
  15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
  60lb Yellow Power Pro
  3/0 short shank red hook
• Corn and lots of it
• Creamy Corn
  Whole Kernel