Fishing near Dedham in Norfolk County, MA

Check Prices

• weedless yamamaoto bright green crayfish with a squid-like skirt on the front.
• Bacon. 5/0 hook, 1-ounce egg sinker
• Bacon on the bottom. 5/0 hook, one-ounce egg sinker.
• Bacon on the bottom. 1 ounce sinker.
• bacon
• GROSSLY
• booyeah frog
• spinners
  rooster Tails
• Corn/catfish bait
  (see the trip details and other hotspots for more info)
• Fat body rubber craw, watermelon candy color

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• worm
• slug
• Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
• Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.
• SEAWORMS
• Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
  one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
• cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
• Live eels

Tube Check Prices

• tube dark...
• use small tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• minitube flourescent
• Tube and huge sea worms

Creature Check Prices

• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• 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'.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
• Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
• Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig

Minnow Check Prices

• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• shiners
• medium-sized shiner
• small minnows, pretty active
• 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
• Dead minnows
• shiner
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
• 2lb 9oz
  1-1/2lbs
  3-3/4lbs

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
• basic top water pencil popper type lure.
• 3.5inch Jitterbug (arbogast)
• 3inch Black Jitterbug
• Black Jitterbug
• Jitterbug
• 3/8 jointed Jitterbug in black.
• Purple Flash Popper
• 3/8 oz. jointed, black Jitterbug. Heavy test, mono leader tied onto braid.
• good ole fashioned jitter bug

Lizard Check Prices

• Red/Red
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• green w/ red fleck
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• baby bass berkley slug
• 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
• 6" on inline spinner
  3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
• 1st was 13" 1lb
  2nd was 6"
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
• Sluggo
• red 5" Senko
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Green Popper Frog Fly
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  
• Joes fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• use orange spinner.. blue fox
• my dads was on an S.K spinnerbait.
  the one I lost was on a KVD swim jig
• Fishing rocks and open water
• Fishing shore line
• Rebel Buzz'n Frog
• Fishing tree lines
• Arbogast Jitterbug and Rebel Buzz'n Frog
• white spinner bait with white curly tail grub
• H&H spinnerbait with blue/chartreuse skirt
• using a curly tailed soft bait on the jig hook - slow to moderate retrieve, just enough to keep the spinners going and the bait a foot below the surface.

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• Spro Frog
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard

Streamer Check Prices

• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm
• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• rapala
• slow action on jerkbait long pauses
• RC jerkbait did most of the heavy lifting. It caught 7 0f the 8 bass 5 of the 7 pickles and 1 sunnie.
  
  Also caught a bass on a spinnerbait and 2 pickles on a minus
• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
• seinko 5" junebug purple
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
• Rapala F05 BCF
  Rebel minnow F07 Silver
• pumkin stick bait, yumm

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Gold spinner
• Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
• mepps agalia
• #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.
• Panther Martin
• rooster tail
• An 8", 2 10"ers, and a 13" 1lb
• All Between 5" and 7"
• 8", 9", and 12" 10oz Smallies

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• purple senko
• Yamamoto Senko, Black with Red flakes
• Zoom watermelon seed. Had a little luck with the finese worm but found that larry was bitting the fat centipede sized one more.
• Gary Yamamoto senko
  black w large blue flakes
• green pumkin senko
• Senko - black with blue flakes
• GY senko rootbeer
• black blue fleck senko
• Pumpkinseed Senko, Watermelon Senko
• Senko type worm Black and Silver

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Storm Shad Minnow
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• xps swimbait
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Storm shad mullet color

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• Crank and buzzbait
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• All between 6" & 9"
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Drop Shot
• 1 Keeper barely 12"
  The rest were in the 8"-11"range
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
• Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
  1st was a little over a 1lb
  2nd was 12"
  3rd was 2lbs 2oz
• 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
  The rest were in the 8"-11" range
• Chatterbait, Swimbait, Jig, Dropshot
  My Limit was 2lb 6oz, 2lb 5oz, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 7oz, and 1lb 6oz
  
  what didn't make the cut:
  two 1lb 6oz
  half a dozen between 1-1/4lb & 1lb
  one 14oz
  one short
• Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot
  
  Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)
  
  
• 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Powerbait
• Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Rapala F-5 Original
• Rooster Tail
• Rapala F-7 Original Silver
• Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
• Rooster Tail
  Rapala F-5 Original
• Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
• Rapala Original #7

Craw Check Prices

• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto 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.
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
• Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• crawdads and soft frogs

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• Rapala Jerkbait
• SPRO BBZ1
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

• metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig
• 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
• jig n pig

Crankbait Check Prices

• Strike King KVD Shad/Purple Square Bill Shallow Running Crankbait (Not exact name)
• - White (Bass Pro)
  
  - Yellow and gold, shiny, resembles a Yellow Perch (Bass Pro).
• Most fish caught on a j9 bronze color but did get a few on soft plastics and the biggest on a hollow body swim-bait.
• j9 black/gold
• slow slow slow presentation
• Deep diver Purple slow retreive
• Lipless crankbait rat-l-trap.
• 2 inch minnow shallow diver yellow perch pattern
• Rat-l-trap
• strike pro

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Strike King Bass Jig
• Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.
  
  YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
• Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
• JIG N PIG
  4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
  WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
• manns stone 3/8 jig
• Threw a black on black 1/4 jig and #11 pork frog in the trees and a Koppers live target frog in the scum and pads
• And Senko
  Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
• Tube brown and red fig

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
• 5" and 6" Senko
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
• Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
• Storm 2in Perch
• yamamoto swimsenko
• 3 keepers, one was culled

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Olive wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• gold little cleo
• regular silver spoon
• Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
• 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
• Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• rattler
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Greyish, green, red face

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• live worm on float
• nice large nightcrawlers
• Kids materials
• night crawler on a float
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.

Herring Check Prices

• Live lining mackeral
• Herring Chunk

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms
• Clams
• Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.
• medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper Fishing
• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!
• Popper fishing off the boat
• Popper fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Dropshotting
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• Berkley White Grub.
• Dropshot
• Berkley white grub with a tail.

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail
• Fresh Cut Pogies
• Seaworms
• Sea Worms
• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

• Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
• Powerbait
• White Berkely Honey worm
• Power bait
• Yellow power eggs
• yellow power eggs
• yellow power bait
• 3 Berkley Gulp Salmon Eggs on a treble hook floating from the bottom about 8-10inches high.