Fishing near Berlin in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• 1.5 KVD Crankbait, Yamamoto 4.5 inch Pumpkin Grub, Spinnerbait, Swim Baits, Rubber Worms.
• Goliath size perch
• 3/4 Ounce Blue and Silver Kastmaster
• Big ass shiners
• BHB Jigs
  Senko
  Kivas
  Yellow candy
  Shinners
• Shinners
  
  Big Ones
• 3/4 Oz Blue and Silver Kastmaster
• jitterbug, yum worm..pumpkin
• weighted tube
  Texas rigged craw
  spook
  wacky
• Both Lakers came from the same spot. PM me if you want details. In any case, they didn't seem to be hitting to far out from shore, maybe 20 yards or so?

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• Big Shinner
• White suckers
• Big Kiva
• Yellow Perch
• Shinners
• Pike shinners, again
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• Large and XL Shiners

Tube Check Prices

• June Bug tube
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• june bug tubes
• salt and pepper purple flake tube
• Chartreuse pepper flack tube
• pumpkin seed tube
• june bug tube
• minitube flourescent
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms

Creature Check Prices

• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.

Minnow Check Prices

• Kivas
  Shinners
• Medium shiner
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• 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.
• fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
• actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• 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.
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• shiner

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Jitterbug
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Black jitter bug.
• Popper
• Jitter Bug

Lizard Check Prices

• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
• 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
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad

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
  

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Spinner green bleeder
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• strike king 3/8 oz spinner
• Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf
• Green Bleeder
• 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
• red
• Spinnerbait
• white skirt
• white and red tandem colorado
  long tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• 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.
• 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.
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Ribbit frog
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• X-Rap
• 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.
• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• Trolling main channel

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Silver / Black Roostertail
• Blue Fox Inline Minow
• All 4 and 5 inch Bass
• 5in and 9in Bass
• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• 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
• 1/8 rooster tail.

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• Senko, Watermelon, Weedless-rigged
• Senko, Watermelon, Wacky-rigged
• Wacky rigged senos in 5 inch lenght BkBl + GrPumpkin
  
  Bites only after it bottoms out, or popped off bottom after sitting 20-30 seconds.
• I worked the western shoreline for awhile, throwing around my usual rig. After feeling a few hit and runs, I eventually hooked up on a bass...that couldn't have weighed more than half a pound.
• one 8in, and one 12-1/4in 1lb
• Shakey Head
• 6" Green/Brown Pumpkin Senko
• senko into cover
• Senko
• 6" finesse worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• Dark Senkos wacky
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• xps swimbait
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.

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
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• 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
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• All between 6" & 9"
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

• My Best 5:
  Two 2lbers
  1-1/2lber
  1-1/4lber
  1lber
• Drop Shot
• pitching into the pads with a craw
• Jigs, Worms, Cranks
  Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
  Many shorts caught
• one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
• Shaky Head
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• 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
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 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
• 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.

Craw Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• Rooster Tail
• 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
• rapala red ratalin rap
• Rapala Original Perch #7
• 13in on Chartuesse and Blood Spinnerbait
  8.5in on Rapala Original Perch #7
• Rosster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  Missed a 1lb+, came off a few feet from the dock

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
• SPRO BBZ1

Jigs Check Prices

• jig n pig
• Our Limit was :
  My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz
  
  1lb and under on the rest
• 11" on Shaky Head
  15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
• 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...

Crankbait Check Prices

• kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
• 1 on a shinner 1 on a senko and the big guy on a huge 7 inch crank bait while trolling
• Strike King Pro Series 4S - Sexy Shad
• Bait ball. From live target
• Baitball. Live target
• strike king sexy shad
• River2Sea Biggie Smalls yellow perch pattern
• Srike King crank bait, Sexy shad
  dives 2 to 5 feet
• Square Bill
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait

Bass Jig Check Prices

• brown
• pumpkin
• Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
• rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
• One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  
• 1st was 1lb 3oz
  2nd was 2lb 5oz
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• 3lb 4oz
  A couple 3lbers
  A couple 2-3/4blers
  Half a dozen 2-1/2lbers
  A dozen 2lbers
  ...so many fish! I lost count!
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• texas rigged senko
• 4"senko
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• Storm 2in Perch

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger
• Wolly Bugger
• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 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!
• silver spoon
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• just a small piece
  
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• Kids materials

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• Greyish, green, red face
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• rattler
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• 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
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits

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

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

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• 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
• Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail
• Dough Ball

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

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

• usually rubber worms
• Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
• Green Power Bait
• Corn and lots of it
• Creamy Corn
  Whole Kernel
• Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel
  
  15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
  60lb Yellow Power Pro
  3/0 short shank red hook
• Corn Corn Corn Corn
• Cheapest bait on the planet
• Corn
  Lots of it
• 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
  1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)