Fishing near Framingham in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• Pulling into the access point, I find this...
• bomber crankbait
• Silver lipless crank bait
• Chartruese dough Power Bait
• Jig Never weighed it in with all the bags that were caught
• Shallow Shad Rap #7 - Bluegill Pattern
• white rooster tail
• SPINNER
• gary yamo senko ........need to have flakes on them
• Shakey Head,Crankbaits,spinnerbaits,top water Sprow frogs,Yamamoto Water melon candy Senko,Baby Bass Zoom Trick Worm,spoon.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• slug
• worm
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Large and XL Shiners
• Large Minnows
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• White suckers
• Big Kiva
• Big Shinner

Tube Check Prices

• white tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• minitube flourescent
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• use small tube
• tube dark...
• June Bug tube
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• june bug tubes

Creature Check Prices

• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• 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'.
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz

Minnow Check Prices

• shiner
• 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
• small minnows, pretty active
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• 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
• actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
• Kivas
  Shinners
• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
• Dead minnows

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Black jitter bug.
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog
• Popper
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Though I have caught a few bass on various lures here so far, topwaters seem to be the most productive by far. It makes sense when you think about. Go down to Fairhaven on a summer night and just try and count the splashes on the surface. I lost count somewhere around 20.
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Rapala SkitterPop 7 in brown frog
• Jitter Bug

Lizard Check Prices

• 8" Pumpkinseed
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• Red/Red
• green w/ red fleck

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 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
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
• Sluggo
• Two 1lb Pickerel
• 4.5in Slug-go
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• light green
• any bright color
• a crankbait with a spinner attached on the front.
• 3/16oz Black Buzzbait
• Chartruese w/ green and red
• Chartruesse w/Red - Plus a trailerhook saved the catch
• One 12" Jumbo Perch, and @ smaller ones
• Chartreuse spinner bait for one bass, Zoom green 6" plastic lizard for the other
• Big chartreuse spinner bait; I forget the brand
• strike king with trailing hook that caught both.

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• 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.
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• Spro Frog
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• Jerkbait
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• 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.
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8 rooster tail.
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6 Rooster Tail
• 1st fish of the night
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  ***Two 4in, One 8in, one 8 1/2in
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  ***
  1st one was 8 1/2in 7oz
  2nd one was 8in 4oz
• 1/6oz Brown Metallic Rooster Tail
• 1st Bass 8in
  2nd 6in
• 2 7in Calico's

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• Senko
• 4" Yums
• yum dark blue speckled dingers
• 4-inch yum
• orange and green
• yum soft worm
• i used a yum dinger and nicholas used mostly crankbaits
• texas rigged plastic worms
• yum worm with swirly tail
• yum 8 inch pumpkin seed worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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.
• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• Crank and buzzbait
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• All between 6" & 9"
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• 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

• Dropshot
• Dropshot Sluggo
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• Worms, Jigs, and 1 on topwater early
  
  My contribution to the limit was a 3-1/2lber
  
  The rest were 2lbs to 3/4lbs mostly
• Jigs & Worms
  Our Limit:
  Chuck had a 3lber
  I had a 4lber, 3-1/4lber, 3lber, and 1-3/4lber
  
  The rest from 1-3/4lbs to shorts
• one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
• Shaky Head
• Jigs, Worms, Cranks
  Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
  Many shorts caught
• pitching into the pads with a craw
• Drop Shot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

• 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.
• crawdads and soft frogs
• 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
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
  4 on Rooster Tail
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
• rapala red ratalin rap
• Rapala Original Perch #7
• Rooster Tail
  Missed a 1lb+, came off a few feet from the dock
• Rosster Tail
• 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
• SPRO BBZ1
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• Rapala Jerkbait

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

• 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
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...

Crankbait Check Prices

• rapala
• clear and blue and about 5 inch long
• looks like a perch
• deep divers
• clear and blue and about 5inch long
• Silver Lipless crank
• nothing worked but the crankbaits tonight.
• small rapala
• Rapala F-7 Original - Minnow
• a variety of crankbaits and rooster tails.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• 1st was 17-1/2in 2lb-3/4lb
  3rd was 12-1/2in 3/4lb
• Couple of 1-1/2lbers, couple of 1lber, and a 1/2lber
• SENKO(GREEN),SLUGO(BLUE)
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• Black blue 1/4 oz jig. Creature bait Trailor
• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• 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
• 1st was 1lb 3oz
  2nd was 2lb 5oz
• One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• Storm 2in Perch
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• Berkeley GULP!
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger
• Wolly Bugger
• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• silver spoon
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• 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!
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• regular silver spoon
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• rattler
• Greyish, green, red face
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• 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
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• Kids materials
• live worm on float
• night crawler on a float
• nice large nightcrawlers
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• Jigs, Craws, Swimbait, Dropshot, Chatterbait, Spinnerbait
  
  Two were 1-3/4lbs
  Five were 1-1/2lbs
  The rest were 1-1/4lbs and lower
• Berkley PowerBait
• SPINNER BAIT
• rooster tail
• Sweetcorn
• Dough Ball
• Got one on the mop jig just across the current. Got another on the buzzbait a little further out. Got a couple of shorts.
• I went with a basic powerbait rig. I Tied a barrel swivel on to the end of my 8 pound mono and added about 2.5-3 feet of 6 pound fluorocarbon leader. Just above the swivel was a small 1/8 ounce steel egg sinker. A baited powerbait hook completed the set up.
• Just used some more powerbait. I'm thinking next time I may try some mealworms or nightcrawlers. Maybe a few small senkos as well.
• usually rubber worms