Fishing near Charlton in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
• Senko
  Kivas
  Rubber Frog
• Dead Bait
• 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
• 5 Keepers:
  2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  2 shorts
• 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.
• one 1-1/2 lber and 3 other all around a pound
• Tube
• nuts berries vegetation of all natures and LIVE GAME !
• shiners nightcrawlers and meal worms

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Hand size Kivas
• Chung's Best
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Shiinners
• Perfect size Kivas
• Big shiners
• Big Kiva
• White suckers
• Live Carwfish
• Medium sized Frog

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

Minnow Check Prices

• Med Shiners
  Wish we had gotten some larger ones
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies
• Chung's Best
• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• live bait old school
• 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
• 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.
• big dead goldies
• mediums

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
• Jitterbug
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• Jitter Bug

Lizard Check Prices

• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight

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.
• 4.5in Slug-go
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• Sluggo

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.
  
  

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Fast retrieve
• 2lber on Spinnerbait
  10" on drop shot
• Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
  11-1/2" Short
  1lber culled
  Limit was:
  1-1/2lbs
  1lb 7oz
  1-1/4lbs
  1lb 1oz
  1lber
• My 3 Fish Limit was:
  1lb 11oz
  1lb 4oz
  14oz
  
  4 Shorts too
  
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• Brown/Gold w/ Red
• brown/gold w/ red

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 6" and 8" on inline spinner
• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner
• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• Blue Fox Inline Minow
• Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Nymph Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• junebug w/blue fleck
• Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
• short plastic worm, slow pull/fall/sit retrieve
• 5" senko
• Senko
• Shakeyhead - 1-1/2lber, and 1-1/4ber
• using 6" senko green pumpkin
• using a salt shaker worm on a jig head. 6 fish were bass.
  My son caught a pickerel when he was cranking the worm through the water.
• Gary Yamamoto™®
  5inch Watermelon/Lemon
  The lighting changes ALOT from summer to Autumn--So I tried something new
• Shakey Head
  My Biggest 2 Largemouth of the day were 2lbs 5oz, and 1lb 14oz - Most of the others were in the 1-1/4lb to 1-1/2lb range

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• 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
• Surprised I only got one today!
• Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
• Drop shot
• Dropshot
• 11" Drop Shot
  11-3/4" Carolina Rig
• Drop Shot, and Shakey Head
• 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

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 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
• Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
• 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.
• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.

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.
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Rooster tail
• Gulp Alive

Craw Check Prices

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• First cast and I had one.
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit

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

• 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
• Booyah tiger
• perch rapala
• perch rapala - was surprised to get nothing on a soft worm.
• rapal
• rapala
• Rapala Jointed crankbait

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 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
• 4-1/4lb on a jig
  3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
  two 1lbers on buzzbait
  
• 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
• brown

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• 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
• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• silver spoon
• 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!
• 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• just a small piece
  
• Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
• 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 and troutworms
• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'

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
  
• Inline Spinner, Dropshot
  one 6" and 4 other between 10" ans 11" Smallies
• powerbait yellow
• White Bread
• Big
  Dead
  Golden's
• 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
  1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
• Corn
  Lots of it
• Cheapest bait on the planet
• Corn Corn Corn Corn
• Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel
  
  15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
  60lb Yellow Power Pro
  3/0 short shank red hook