Fishing near Brookfield in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
• 5 Keepers:
  2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  2 shorts
• 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
• Dead Bait
• Senko
  Kivas
  Rubber Frog
• Flies and Jigs
• Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
• 4 " Senkos black blue flake drop shot and Road Kill Bass Pro style Senko. We tried many different colors and baits but most of our fish came on these two colors.
• big dead shiners, kayem red's hot dogs
• one 1-1/2 lber and 3 other all around a pound

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Big shiners
• Chung's Best
• Perfect size Kivas
• Shiinners
• Hand size Kivas
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Live Carwfish
• 5 inch yellow perch
• 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters

Creature Check Prices

• Carolina Rig
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• zoom brush hawg pumpkin

Tube Check Prices

• drop shots and topwater
• Chartreuse pepper flack tube
• june bug tubes
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• salt and pepper purple flake tube
• June Bug tube

Minnow Check Prices

• 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.
• Med Shiners
  Wish we had gotten some larger ones
• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• large shiners on trokar hooks
• We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
• Chung's Best
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies
• live bait old school
• 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
• Live Target Brown Mouse
• Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
• Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass
  
  
• Popper
• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• Jitterbug
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo

Lizard Check Prices

• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

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.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Fast retrieve
• 2lber on Spinnerbait
  10" on drop shot
• My 3 Fish Limit was:
  1lb 11oz
  1lb 4oz
  14oz
  
  4 Shorts too
  
• Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
  11-1/2" Short
  1lber culled
  Limit was:
  1-1/2lbs
  1lb 7oz
  1-1/4lbs
  1lb 1oz
  1lber
• spinnerbait , plastic worms
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
• Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
• 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.

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Rapala blue and white rattle
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• X-Rap

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Rooster Tail
• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• 6" and 8" on inline spinner
• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner
• Blue Fox Inline Minow

Worm Check Prices

• Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
• junebug w/blue fleck
• green pumpkin senko
• short plastic worm, slow pull/fall/sit retrieve
• 5" senko
• Gary Yamamoto™®
  5inch Watermelon/Lemon
  The lighting changes ALOT from summer to Autumn--So I tried something new
• Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• Senko
• Yamamoto black Senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• 6 inch light green senko

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

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Surprised I only got one today!
• Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
• 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
• Drop shot
• Dropshot
• All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
• 1-1/4lber was my best
  bunch of 1lbers and shorts
• 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
  the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller
• 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

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
• Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
• Gulp Alive
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Rooster tail

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• ratl trap

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

• Booyah tiger
• Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
• crankbaits and spinners
• 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
• Squarebill, and dropshot
• shallow running crank bait minus one.
• X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 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
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez
• Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• 4"senko
• texas rigged senko
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• 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.

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!
• silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• Big
  Dead
  
• Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
• powerbait yellow
• White Bread
• Inline Spinner, Dropshot
  one 6" and 4 other between 10" ans 11" Smallies
• yellow rubber powerbait eggs
• 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
  1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
• Big
  Dead
  Golden's
• Rainbow Powerbait
• Corn
  Lots of it