Fishing near Gardner in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• wacky worms and spinnerbaits
• smoke red flake senkos
• 6" Senkos
• Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub
• Green with gold belly swim bait.
• frogs and senkos
• fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
• senko
• Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub
  Booyah Pad Crasher Hollow Body Frog
  KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Swimbait
• texes rigged senko

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
• 5 inch yellow perch
• Shinners
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners
• Pike shinners, again
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• Big Shinner
• Yellow Perch
• Live Carwfish
• White suckers

Creature Check Prices

• They are called brush hogs, and manufactured by Zoom baits, sold at wal-mart.
• 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

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

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• jitterbug
• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
• red

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.
• Swimming the frog through the pads
• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
• Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage

Stick Bait Check Prices

• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
• Rapala blue and white rattle
• X-Rap

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Asortment of spinners.
• Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
• Blue Fox Inline Minow
• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• Silver / Black Roostertail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Black or brown body with Chartreuse tail
• Black or Brown with Chartreuse tail
• Black or Brown body with Chartreuse tail
• senko
• gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
• senkos
• gary yatommotto senko black with siver flake.
• Red Senko took it on the fall on the fall
• Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
  spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
• Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• 6 inch light green senko

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Senko and Dropshot
• Dropshot

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• senkos
• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.

Crankbait Check Prices

• many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
• shallow running crank bait minus one.
• shallow running crank baits
• 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
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
• X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Crawfish style.
• brown
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• pumpkin

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
• 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.
• 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
• Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
• 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
• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.

Wet Fly Check Prices

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster
• 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

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

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 Twin Tail Grub
  Booyah Frog
• Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
  Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Other Check Prices

• yellow rubber powerbait eggs
• White Bread
• 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
• Creamy Corn
  Whole Kernel
• Green Power Bait
• Corn Corn Corn Corn
• Cheapest bait on the planet
• Corn
  Lots of it