Fishing near Blackstone in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• Rubber worms, topwater baits, weedless jigs any weedless lures
• Maize and molasses really the only action we got here
• I always have a bunch of bait and types with me. I believe in variety and good combos. Usuals are Chick peas, maize, sweet corn, DAT Food boilies
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  We had plenty of bait on hand. Blackstone Carp brought its very own DAT food boilies for the public to use, we also had a bucket of prepared feed corn, a bucket of Maple peas, a bucket of Chick Peas, a container of Luncheon Meat and a few loaves of bread.
  
  Fish were caught on Feed corn, DAT food Strawberry, and Chick Peas.
  
  
• Dat food, Chick peas and feed corn as well as a good bread/crushed boilie/anise-pepper ground mix
• This fish was caught on a Maize and Maple combo
• First fish was on pineapple flavored feed corn on a hair rig. After that though nopthing was touching it.
  
  Changed to the cream corn and grits pack bait and caught 4 other fish within 3 hours
• Molasses Maize,
  Dat Food,
  Chick Peas,
  a fish/scopex/chillie ground bait
• DAT Food in Tuttie-frutty and Obsession
  
  Pescaviva shrimp and scopex
  
  coffee/pepper dough
• Dat food (strawberry, Gold, scopex)
  Pescaviva trout pellet and scopex
  WCB Scopex Pop-ups
  chick peas
  

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Medium to small sized frogs seem to work the best but ive even caught pike and largemouth off of a full grown frog sink em or let em swim on top either way works very effectivly
• Medium sized Frog
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• live shiners, 5-6 inches long
• porgy
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Hand size Kivas
• slug
• worm

Tube Check Prices

• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• drop shots and topwater
• 8 lb line
  weightless
  3/0 hook
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• texas rigged
• tube dark...

Creature Check Prices

• 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'.
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• Carolina Rig
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• used baby brush hog
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.

Minnow Check Prices

• medeim to large shiners and never thought nightcrawlers would work through the ice but i ended up with a crappie and a perch while jigging one just waitin for my flags
• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• Some guy bought some live shiners at Big O's and left us with a few. This one was about 3" long and brought in a 10" perch.
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• Shiners
• Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• 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.
• 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
• mediums

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Jitter Bug
• Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
• topwater and worms
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• Purple Flash Popper
• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Jitterbug
• Rebel Popper - Perch

Lizard Check Prices

• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• 4.5in Slug-go
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• Sluggo
• red 5" Senko
• bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding

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.
  
  
• Green Popper Frog Fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• tornado black
• Tornado spinner bait
• Shad colored spinnerbait w/ white trailer
• rooster tail spinner
• brown/gold w/ red
• Brown/Gold w/ Red
• Stirke King KVD Sexy Shad Spinnerbait
• Red/black single Colorado gold
• Worked several lures, while my son was busy catching the fish with shiners.
• firetiger tandem silver willow spinnerbait, with a split tail chartruese trailer.

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Spro Frog
• Strike King Rage Toad
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• chartreuse SnagProof frog
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
• A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
• 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
  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
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• Rooster Tail
  1. 9in
  2. 10.5in
• 1st. 8in 6oz
  2nd. 5in
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• live bait works well here also wether its frogs shiners or just a nightcrawler. i found swimbaits and spinners are also great just depends on weather conditions
• bass master 6 inch madi gras
• black blue fleck
• assorted plastics and spinner bait top water frog
• sweat tater pie
• purple flake 6"
• Green Worm with red flakes
• Green worm, green flakes
• Plain red worms. Big O's Bait and Tackle is just north of the Pond's main entrance on Farnum Pike. Pass the entrance on the left and look for the house (Big O's) about 3/4 mile on the left. They are open from around 5:30am until 8:30pm. $3 a tub of 26-30 redworms... several baits and jigs available.
• Red worm from Big O's.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• xps swimbait
• Dark Senkos wacky
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Storm Shad Minnow
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah

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
• Jerkbait
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Drop Shot
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• Dropshot
• 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
• 2-1/4lber was my best
  Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
• Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
  The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
• 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

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
• crawdads and soft frogs

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Rooster tail
• Rapala Original #7
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• 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
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• Rapala Jerkbait
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• First cast and I had one.
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.

Jigs Check Prices

• 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...
• 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

Crankbait Check Prices

• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Minnow
• Bass Pro XPS suspending minnow
• Rapala Jointed crankbait
• keep on crankin
• did not change my lure all day
• steady retrieve
• Dilly diver shad
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Strike King Pro Series 1XS - Sexy Shad
• Rapala Original F-7 - Minnow

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• 4"senko
• texas rigged senko
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• Corn Yellow Powerbait
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• Storm 2in Perch
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• regular silver spoon
• silver spoon
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• nice large nightcrawlers
• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• Just had the crawler on the bottem. Had the hook about 1 foot above the sinker, so the sinker got the weeds instead of the hook.
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• rattler
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• Greyish, green, red face

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• medium speed

Blade Bait Check Prices

• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

• Again the Dat food boilie line really worked well here. Shrimplies(shrimp) and gold( pineapple) performed above my expectations. Feed corn was of course also on the menu and produced a few good runs.
• Bait for carp: (which are the only fish I am coun ting for here)
  Chum the night before with a mix of Maize and oat/bran/grits method/ground bait
  
  Hook bait was maize on a hair with tutty-fruity or molasses glug, or maize or corn-pops on the hook with a oat/bran/grits pack bait
  
  Bait for sunnies/bluegills/etc:
  Meal worms, canned corn, bread
  
  Many were caught as part of the event but I did not keep a tally.
  
• Maize has been my bait of choice, followed closely by maple peas and an oat based pack bait.
  
  Molasses and maple have been strong producing flavors for me this early on..latter this will change to more fruit and maybe even a fish/blood as the water warms.
• This was our trial run weekend for a new line of boilies my friends and I have been working on from the Blackstone Carp videos. Dat Food Boilies ( we used 3 types Shrimplies(shrimp), Gold(pineapple)and Pop-ups). I won't give the recipe on these as it has taken me quite some time to put a truly good boilie together. I will, on request, give out some more basic boilie recipes to get people started though.
  
  Also Feed corn was on the menu and did produce a fish or two.
• Feed corn and Dat food are always on the menu now. Maple peas have made their way back as well. We had a batch of Anise and fruit ( see the tutorial on bait in the forums or at www.blackstonecarp.com) and some of the Dat food dough un boiled. Dat food seemed to be the bait of choice with maples coming in just behind.
• Our bucket contained once again
  feed corn, maple peas, dat food and chick peas.
  
  Sadly on this outing nothing really produced with a few Crucian carp grabbing anything they could.
  
  
• Canned sweet corn, White bread work well here as well as all manner of dough baits and boilies.
• We have been using primarily feed corn, soaked for at least 24 hours then boiled for 1 hour till it is a firm but chewable texture. Molasses and fishy flavors have been the producing choices.
  
  We have also been using a grits based pack bait, with some results.
  
  
  
  Pre-feeding will produce better results typically
  
  
• Again Feed corn is a big success here. Also shrimp/fishy flavored boilies have produced well.
  
  
• Maple peas were on the menu today. I chummed maize/peas/boilies/strawberry corn