Fishing near Holden in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• big dead shiners, kayem red's hot dogs
• Both Lakers came from the same spot. PM me if you want details. In any case, they didn't seem to be hitting to far out from shore, maybe 20 yards or so?
• weighted tube
  Texas rigged craw
  spook
  wacky
• 3/4 Oz Blue and Silver Kastmaster
• Corn mmmmmmm
• My favorite Carp Bait
  
  Power Bait for Rainbows
• Corn lots of it
• BHB Jigs
  Senko
  Kivas
  Yellow candy
  Shinners
• 3/4 Ounce Blue and Silver Kastmaster
• Shinners
  
  Big Ones

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Carolina Rig
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• 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

Minnow Check Prices

• 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.
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• Medium shiner
• Kivas
  Shinners
• large shiners on trokar hooks
• Chung's Best
• live bait old school
• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• 8" Pumpkinseed

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.
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go
• Sluggo
• 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

• Fast retrieve
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• red
• Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
• Spinner green bleeder
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
• Green Bleeder
• Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf

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
• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• X-Rap
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• 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
• Rapala blue and white rattle
• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• Blue Fox Inline Minow
• Silver / Black Roostertail
• Asortment of spinners.
• 5in and 9in Bass
• All 4 and 5 inch Bass
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
  spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
• Gary Yamamoto™®
  5inch Watermelon/Lemon
  The lighting changes ALOT from summer to Autumn--So I tried something new
• Senko, Watermelon, Wacky-rigged
• Senko, Watermelon, Weedless-rigged
• junebug w/blue fleck
• short plastic worm, slow pull/fall/sit retrieve
• 5" senko
• Green Bass Pro Tournament Series worm with red and blue flakes
• 7 " red shad powerbait
• Zoom Trick worm
  Color: South Africa Special

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• 6 inch light green senko

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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
• Jerkbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 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
• 1-1/4lber was my best
  bunch of 1lbers and shorts
• All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
• 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
  the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller
• Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
  The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
• 2-1/4lber was my best
  Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
• 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
• 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
• Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts

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.
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub

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.
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
• Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• Rooster tail
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
• Rooster Tail
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
• 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
  4 on Rooster Tail
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

Jigs Check Prices

• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• 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

• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
• shallow running crank bait minus one.
• Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
• rapala
• perch rapala - was surprised to get nothing on a soft worm.
• rapal
• perch rapala
• KVD Rattling Square Bill

Bass Jig Check Prices

• brown
• Crawfish style.
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• 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
• 4-1/4lb on a jig
  3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
  two 1lbers on buzzbait
  
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• pumpkin
• Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
• rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
• One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• 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.
• texas rigged senko
• 4"senko
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger

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
• 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• just a small piece
  
• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• silver&blue kastmaster

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• 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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body

Other Check Prices

• White Bread
• Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel
  
  15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
  60lb Yellow Power Pro
  3/0 short shank red hook
• Corn Corn Corn Corn
• Cheapest bait on the planet
• Corn
  Lots of it
• Corn and lots of it
• Creamy Corn
  Whole Kernel
• Green Power Bait
• 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
  1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
• yellow rubber powerbait eggs