Fishing near Clinton in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• 1.5 KVD Crankbait, Yamamoto 4.5 inch Pumpkin Grub, Spinnerbait, Swim Baits, Rubber Worms.
• Goliath size perch
• Shinners
  
  Big Ones
• Big ass shiners
• 3/4 Ounce Blue and Silver Kastmaster
• BHB Jigs
  Senko
  Kivas
  Yellow candy
  Shinners
• 3/4 Oz Blue and Silver Kastmaster
• 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?
• Corn lots of it

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

• Medium shiner
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• Kivas
  Shinners
• 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
• large shiners on trokar hooks

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
• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Popper
• Black jitter bug.
• 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.

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.
  
  

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• red
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• strike king 3/8 oz spinner
• 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
• Spinner green bleeder
• Spinnerbait
• Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf
• Green Bleeder
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• 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.
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• 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.
• Ribbit frog
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• 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
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• Trolling main channel

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Blue Fox Inline Minow
• Silver / Black Roostertail
• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• All 4 and 5 inch Bass
• 5in and 9in Bass
• Asortment of spinners.
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/8in Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Senko, Watermelon, Weedless-rigged
• Senko, Watermelon, Wacky-rigged
• Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
  spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
• 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.
• Wacky rigged senos in 5 inch lenght BkBl + GrPumpkin
  
  Bites only after it bottoms out, or popped off bottom after sitting 20-30 seconds.
• Shakey Head
• senko into cover
• Senko
• 6" finesse worm
• Green worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

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

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
• 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
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• Senko and Dropshot

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

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

• senkos
• 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
• Blue Fox Vibrax series
• Rapala Original Perch #7
• 13in on Chartuesse and Blood Spinnerbait
  8.5in on Rapala Original Perch #7

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

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
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• rapala wounded minnow
• 1 on a shinner 1 on a senko and the big guy on a huge 7 inch crank bait while trolling
• Same as Bass 1
• Baitball. Live target
• Bait ball. From live target
• Strike King Pro Series 4S - Sexy Shad
• strike king sexy shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

• brown
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• 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
• 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!
• Crawfish style.

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• just a small piece
  
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
• Pumpkin tail carolina style

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail
• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub

Other Check Prices

• Corn and lots of it
• Green Power Bait
• 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)
• Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
• White Bread