Fishing near Holliston in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• Wacky Seko BK/BL
• Senkos rigged wacky and texas
• Chartruese Egg Power Bait
• Caught one on a 5" gray with purple fleck Yamamoto Senko immediately followed by another on a yellow & green crankbait.
• assorted plastics
• zoom finese watermelon seed
• senkos
• Large topwater popper.
• will use nightcrawlers
• Senko- watermelon and purple flake

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• slug
• worm
• Large and XL Shiners
• Large Minnows
• 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
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• 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'.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• Carolina Rig

Minnow Check Prices

• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• 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
• small minnows, pretty active
• 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.
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• 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
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Jitter Bug
• Black jitter bug.
• Purple Flash Popper
• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog
• Popper
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Red/black single Colorado gold
• firetiger tandem silver willow spinnerbait, with a split tail chartruese trailer.
• Shad colored spinnerbait w/ white trailer
• Strike King® KVD Spinnerbaits - Double Willow Color Sexy Shad
• Spinner white/green with silver/gold blades
• 3/16oz Black Buzzbait
• Tornado spinner bait
• Worked several lures, while my son was busy catching the fish with shiners.
• a crankbait with a spinner attached on the front.
• brown/gold w/ red

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• 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.
• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  ***
  1st one was 8 1/2in 7oz
  2nd one was 8in 4oz
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  ***Two 4in, One 8in, one 8 1/2in
• 1st fish of the night
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6 Rooster Tail
• 1/8 rooster tail.
• Rooster Tail
  1. 9in
  2. 10.5in
• 1st. 8in 6oz
  2nd. 5in

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• Wacky worms in blue/black, green/white, white/silver
• 6" pumkin and green stick worm
• yum soft worm
• senko green pumpkin magic
• Senko green pumpkin magic
• 5" senko oxblood purple, 5" senko pumpkin w/black & green flecks. Big surprise was a new 1 I found, a 4" senko smoke pearl blue..got a fish every time with the new blue 1!!
• 5 inch Slug-go. Brown speckled
• 4" senko
• Gary Yamamoto 5" Senko
  159 Blue Black Chart Flake
  aka. Black Magic
• Used 5" senko, a frog for the lilly pads, hula popper, 5 inch minnow

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• xps swimbait
• Dark Senkos wacky
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Storm Shad Minnow
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"

Hard Baits Check Prices

• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• 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
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• Crank and buzzbait
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• All between 6" & 9"
• 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

• Drop Shot
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• Dropshot
• Dropshot Sluggo
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• 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
• 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
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Rapala Original #7
• 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
  4 on Rooster Tail
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
• Rooster Tail
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail
• bleeding hook rapala floater
• Rapala F-5 Original
• I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
  Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait

Craw Check Prices

• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto 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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Rapala Jerkbait
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• SPRO BBZ1
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.

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
• jig n pig
• Our Limit was :
  My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz
  
  1lb and under on the rest
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• 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 Original Floater F-7 - Perch
• did not change my lure all day
• keep on crankin
• steady retrieve
• Bass Pro Shops XPS Lazer Eye Hardbaits - Super Shallow Crank in Homer color.
• perch rapala
• rapala
• Bass Pro XPS suspending minnow
• nicholas got his on a perch rapala. i stuck to the yum worm all day. surprisingly got 2 pickerel on it.
• crankbaits all day

Bass Jig Check Prices

• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• 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
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• 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
• Strike King Bass Jig
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• Storm 2in Perch
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• silver spoon
• regular silver spoon
• 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
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• rattler
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• Greyish, green, red face
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• nice large nightcrawlers
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• Kids materials
• live worm on float
• night crawler on a float

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...

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

• rooster tail
• Berkley PowerBait
• Jigs, Craws, Swimbait, Dropshot, Chatterbait, Spinnerbait
  
  Two were 1-3/4lbs
  Five were 1-1/2lbs
  The rest were 1-1/4lbs and lower
• power bait
• power bait off bottom
• Sweetcorn
• SPINNER BAIT
• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• usually rubber worms
• Again corn, white bread work well..I make much of my own dough bait or order some mixes through Wacker Baits