Fishing near Dighton in Bristol County, MA

Check Prices

• Watermelon red/gold flake Texas
• Worm
• basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
• shiners
• A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
• Dat Food,
  Maple Peas,
  Chick Peas
• Standard BPS Red/White 3" Popper and a purple/black spinner bait
• Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.
• black worm
• Crank bait, surface poppers

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• live shiners, 5-6 inches long
• Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
• Shiners on a bobber
• pogie chunk
• porgy
• Shiner one foot below float.
• live linning pogies
• Used some Medium Shinners
• Used live bait and also sanko.
• sandworms

Tube Check Prices

• texas rigged
• 8 lb line
  weightless
  3/0 hook

Creature Check Prices

• Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
• baby brush hog (green pumpkin green 1/8 oz bullet head sinker
  
  palm tree green pumpkin green weight-less
• palm tree red skirt black trunck
• HIT IT ON A PALM TREE MADE BY KINAMI BAITS
• Black and Blue as usual
• using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
• Flipping a laydown
• 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'.
• 4in beaver bait black and blue
  1oz tungsten
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture

Minnow Check Prices

• live shiners and senkos
• Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
• live shiners medium size
• Caught by a friend on a shiner.
• Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• menhaden
• Shiners
• mumpers
• Large (heavies) shiners
• 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• same as bass bait
• top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
• fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
• Rapala Poppers
• Topwater pencil bait, shoots down about 1-2 feet when you yank it, then pops back up to the surface.
• Pencil bait, same as other
• Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
• BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
• pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.
• throwing floating minnow under the docks along shore, pulling crappies and pickerel, 1 good size bass, 2+lbs but he got off the hook.

Lizard Check Prices

• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
• 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
• 6" Senko (see pic for color)
  Rapala Floating Minnow
• Mann's Shadow
• 3 chain pickerel on a silver/white 1/8oz Strike King Mini-King spinnerbait - 1 largemouth bass on watermelon/red flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick(a Senko-type lure)
• fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades
• Sluggo
• Shad colored 5" Senko
• pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear
• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• 4 INCH SHAD

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Green Popper Frog Fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• neon green spinner bait
• neon green spinner bait from bass pro in clearance bin
• 3/8 oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ nickel colorado blade
• wife catches bass #1 on 1/4oz colorado Booyah 'blue glimmer' spinnerbait, I got bass #2 on white 3/8oz BPS double willow spinnerbait
• 3/8oz white Bass pro Shops spinnerbait w/ nickel double-willow blades
• caught 7 pickerel and 5 largemouth bass on the following lures: willow/colorado spinnerbait, Zoom Fluke in pearl, Strike King Shim-E-Stick in watermelon green/red flake, and a Stanley Ribbit frog
• 3 largemouth bass & 1 chain pickerel on a white 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye double-willow spinnerbait
• uh, spinnerbait
• 1 keeper @ 1.36lbs, and 5 shorts
• white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..

Frog Bait Check Prices

• chartreuse SnagProof frog
• green scum frog
  
  yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
• Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits
• Stanley Ribbit
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Strike King Rage Toad
• green scum frog
• largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed

Squid Check Prices

• i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits

Stick Bait Check Prices

• A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
• Jerkbait
• A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
• I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
• I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
• 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
• seinko 5" junebug purple
• slow action on jerkbait long pauses

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• silver/red inline spinner
  
  white/red spot jerk bait
• Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
• Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
• Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
• Panther Martin
• mepps agalia
• All in between 6 an 10 inches
• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• Mepps Agila #1 silver.

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• 0range floating
• 10 inch
• black/chart flake senko
  yellow/green spinner
  bass pro 4.5 inch cut tail worm pumpkin seed
• black w/chart specs senkos
  
  wacky rig and texas
  
  both close to shore
• 5 inch brown and green senkos
• senko
• Two 1-3/4lbers, Three 1-1/2lbs, and a 1lber
  
  Worms. Spinnerbait, and one on a rage frog
• Watermelon colored SENKO worm, texas rigged with a small weight
• Berkley power bait
• Berkeley powerbait

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Yum 5in green pumpkin worm. Also got 3 on shiners ( including the biggest). Got two small ones on yum. 3 bluegill on small lure too.
• Got 3 bass on shiners( including the biggest). 2 small ones on yum 5 in green pumpkin plastic worm. 5 bluegill on small lure too.
• Green rattling to Zuri
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Small swim bait. Also my 12 year old son caught one on a shiner. From this and previous trips, seen some close to a pound in here. Pretty decent size for a perch.

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
• We keep 5 Bass total
  My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
• Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• A mix of 6" to 1lb
• 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
  2 shorts, and 2 lost

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Worm, and Spinnerbait
  
  1.48lbs, and three 1lbers
  
  4 shorts
• My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
  Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber
  
  Also 2 shorts
• My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
  1-3/4lber
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  also a couple 1lbers, and a short
  
  Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait
• Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• Lot's of baits today: topwater, dropshot, senko, spinnerbait, and shakey head.
  
  My limit was:
  1-1/2lber
  1lb 6oz
  1-1/4lber
  Two 1lbers
• Our 5 fish limit was
  2-1/4lbs (Fred)
  1lb 5oz (Fred)
  1lb 2oz (Me)
  two 1lb 1oz (Me)
  
  Many other between 3-/4 to 1lb
• Shakey Head, and Drop Shot
  My Keepers were:
  4lb 5oz
  1-1/2lbs
  Two 1lbers
  
  Paul had 3lber, 1-1/4lbs, a couple 1lbers
• My 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

• strike king red craw texas rigged
  
  blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night
• weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• zoom bass love em super fluke
• Black senko worm
• Black senko rubber worm
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• GOOD OLD SENKO

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Rapala Jerkbait
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.

Jigs Check Prices

• Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

• 2 bass on a Rapala floating minnow, 1 pickerel on a spinnerbait
• bass #1, Bass Pro Shops XPS The Egg wake bait in sexy shad color. bass #2, Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait, 3/8oz white dual nickel willow blades
• Bomber 4A
• My Limit was:
  2.27lbs
  1-3/4lbs
  1lb 10oz
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  
  
• And Lipless Crank
• caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
• I was using a small baby bass colored crankbait, and reeling it in until it smashed into the bottom, then pausing, and they'd crush it on the pause.
• shallow diver with sunfish pattern
• Dilly diver shad
• Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
• Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
• 3/4lb on Jig
  two 10 inchers on drop shot
• Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
• flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
• Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
• 5" and 6" Senko
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• regular silver spoon
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• Night crawler on a #8 hook
• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
• i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
• cast it to the side near the littel pump house but farther out
• just put a nightcarwler on there and drop nit in ull have a bass as soon as u look blink
• Just worms nothing special.
• Live night crawler on a drop shot.
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• medium speed
• Red and white daredevil

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• zara spoof

Grub Check Prices

• 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• Berkley white grub with a tail.
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

• Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
• uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
• Black Spinner Bait
  
  
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• same bait, dough bait
• Just bread balls
• Pink Powerbait nuggets
• porgy snagger
• Powerbait
• Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
• Chummed with feed corn/maple peas and a ground mix of oats/grits/bran/condensed milk/cream corn
  
  Hook bait was Feed corn and maple peas