Fishing near Fitchburg in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
• Green with gold belly swim bait.
• Look for the ramp, it a little one!
• plastics
• Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters
• smoke red flake senkos
• wacky worms and spinnerbaits
• Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub
• 1.5 KVD Crankbait, Yamamoto 4.5 inch Pumpkin Grub, Spinnerbait, Swim Baits, Rubber Worms.
• Shinners
  
  Big Ones

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• 5 inch yellow perch
• Shinners
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners
• Big Shinner
• Pike shinners, again
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• Yellow Perch
• White suckers
• Big Kiva

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

• 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
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.

Minnow Check Prices

• pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
• actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• Medium shiner
• Kivas
  Shinners
• fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
• 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.
• Shine on and dropped.
• large shiners on trokar hooks
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
• Jitterbug
• jitterbug
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo

Lizard Check Prices

• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig

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.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
• red
• strike king 3/8 oz spinner
• 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
• Spinnerbait
• 1/2 oz. chartreuse shad rocket
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• Spinner green bleeder
• Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf
• Green Bleeder

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 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.
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• Ribbit frog
• Swimming the frog through the pads
• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook

Stick Bait Check Prices

• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
• 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
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Asortment of spinners.
• Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
• Blue Fox Inline Minow
• Silver / Black Roostertail
• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
• Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Red Senko took it on the fall on the fall
• senko
• gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
• Black or brown body with Chartreuse tail
• Black or Brown body with Chartreuse tail
• Black or Brown with Chartreuse tail
• Sadly my only Bass of the day, and it was to small
• 6" Yamamoto Senko black/pink worm
• "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  
• purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
• Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Senko and Dropshot
• Dropshot
• 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
• Shaky Head
• one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
• 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

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• senkos
• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked
• Bluegill flash 5 inch super fluke
  Bluegill chatterbait with a watermelon pearl lft swimbait
  1/4 ounce blk/blu booyah baby boo jig with a black yum craw papi
  2 inch baby bass bps grub
• Blue Fox Vibrax series

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.

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
• Same details as Bass 1
• Same as Bass 1
• shallow running crank bait minus one.
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• rapala wounded minnow
• kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
• many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
• shallow running crank baits

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 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.
• Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
• 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
• KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez
• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
• KVD 5" Caffeine Shad - Light Blue with Silver belly.
• KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddletail Swimbait

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• Sherbert (Pink & Orange Glitter) Powerbait.
• Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Greyish, green, red face
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• silver&blue kastmaster

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

• Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
• Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
  Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait
• Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
  Booyah Frog
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.

Other Check Prices

• yellow rubber powerbait eggs
• Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
• 2 fish were caught with a Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook and worm.
  One was caught on a #6 hook and floating orange Powerbait "Trout Nibbles".
  All were caught mid-water, on the retrieve.
• Corn and lots of it
• Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel
  
  15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
  60lb Yellow Power Pro
  3/0 short shank red hook
• Green Power Bait
• Creamy Corn
  Whole Kernel
• White Bread
• Corn Corn Corn Corn
• Cheapest bait on the planet