Fishing near Douglas in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• shiners nightcrawlers and meal worms
• White Nichols spinnerbait w/ white grub trailer
• Rattle trap
• nuts berries vegetation of all natures and LIVE GAME !
• Tube
• one 1-1/2 lber and 3 other all around a pound
• Shiner hooded beside dorsal fin.
• Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
• Maize and molasses really the only action we got here
• I always have a bunch of bait and types with me. I believe in variety and good combos. Usuals are Chick peas, maize, sweet corn, DAT Food boilies

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Hand size Kivas
• Medium sized Frog
• Medium to small sized frogs seem to work the best but ive even caught pike and largemouth off of a full grown frog sink em or let em swim on top either way works very effectivly
• Shiinners
• Perfect size Kivas
• Chung's Best
• Big shiners
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Big Kiva

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• mediums
• medeim to large shiners and never thought nightcrawlers would work through the ice but i ended up with a crappie and a perch while jigging one just waitin for my flags
• big dead goldies
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies
• live bait old school
• Chung's Best
• 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.
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
• Jitter Bug
• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Jitterbug
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• Black 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
• 8" Pumpkinseed

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• Sluggo
• bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• 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 - 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

• 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
• 2lber on Spinnerbait
  10" on drop shot
• Fast retrieve
• brown/gold w/ red
• Brown/Gold w/ Red
• Stirke King KVD Sexy Shad Spinnerbait
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Spro Frog

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• Jerkbait
• 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
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• X-Rap

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner
• 6" and 8" on inline spinner
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 9in
  2. 10.5in
• 1st. 8in 6oz
  2nd. 5in
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• 4 inch wacky sekos
• 4in Senko
• Shakey Head
• 4in Senko - These were the other three of my limit:
  3rd - 17in 2lb 1oz
  4th and 5th 13in 1lb'ers
• 4in Senko - Caught this calico during the tourney too.
• Shakey Head
  Both Smallies were 1lb
• 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
• 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.
• Shakeyhead - 1-1/2lber, and 1-1/4ber
• Senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

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

• 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
• Dropshot
• Drop Shot
• Drop Shot, and Shakey Head
• 11" Drop Shot
  11-3/4" Carolina Rig
• Drop shot
• 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
• 2-1/4lber was my best
  Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
• Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
  The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
• All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
• 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
• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster tail
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• 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.
• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Rooster Tail
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending

Craw Check Prices

• yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

• 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

• Squarebill, and dropshot
• crankbaits and spinners
• 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
• Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
• Rapala Jointed crankbait
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Minnow
• Strike King Pro Series 1XS - Sexy Shad
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Rapala Original F-7 - Minnow
• X-rap Extreme - Yellow Perch

Bass Jig Check Prices

• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• 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
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• 4-1/4lb on a jig
  3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
  two 1lbers on buzzbait
  
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 4"senko
• texas rigged senko
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• Corn Yellow Powerbait
• 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.
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB

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!

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• 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.
• just a small piece
  
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
• nice large nightcrawlers
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.

Other Check Prices

• Again the Dat food boilie line really worked well here. Shrimplies(shrimp) and gold( pineapple) performed above my expectations. Feed corn was of course also on the menu and produced a few good runs.
• Maize has been my bait of choice, followed closely by maple peas and an oat based pack bait.
  
  Molasses and maple have been strong producing flavors for me this early on..latter this will change to more fruit and maybe even a fish/blood as the water warms.
• Bait for carp: (which are the only fish I am coun ting for here)
  Chum the night before with a mix of Maize and oat/bran/grits method/ground bait
  
  Hook bait was maize on a hair with tutty-fruity or molasses glug, or maize or corn-pops on the hook with a oat/bran/grits pack bait
  
  Bait for sunnies/bluegills/etc:
  Meal worms, canned corn, bread
  
  Many were caught as part of the event but I did not keep a tally.
  
• This was our trial run weekend for a new line of boilies my friends and I have been working on from the Blackstone Carp videos. Dat Food Boilies ( we used 3 types Shrimplies(shrimp), Gold(pineapple)and Pop-ups). I won't give the recipe on these as it has taken me quite some time to put a truly good boilie together. I will, on request, give out some more basic boilie recipes to get people started though.
  
  Also Feed corn was on the menu and did produce a fish or two.
• Our bucket contained once again
  feed corn, maple peas, dat food and chick peas.
  
  Sadly on this outing nothing really produced with a few Crucian carp grabbing anything they could.
  
  
• Feed corn and Dat food are always on the menu now. Maple peas have made their way back as well. We had a batch of Anise and fruit ( see the tutorial on bait in the forums or at www.blackstonecarp.com) and some of the Dat food dough un boiled. Dat food seemed to be the bait of choice with maples coming in just behind.
• We have been using primarily feed corn, soaked for at least 24 hours then boiled for 1 hour till it is a firm but chewable texture. Molasses and fishy flavors have been the producing choices.
  
  We have also been using a grits based pack bait, with some results.
  
  
  
  Pre-feeding will produce better results typically
  
  
• Canned sweet corn, White bread work well here as well as all manner of dough baits and boilies.
• scented maize and corn
• Maple peas were on the menu today. I chummed maize/peas/boilies/strawberry corn