Fishing near Hopedale in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• bk/bl spidergrub
• Senko- watermelon and purple flake
• For bait I kept it simple today. I was travelling by canoe and wanted a light bait bucket. Chick peas, and a batch of strawberry chicks plus DAT food boilies. I used a small amount of ground bait made of breadcrumbs and rolled oats plus some crushed boilies and river water to help hold the carp in the area.
  
  
• Molasses maize,
  Dat Food
  Chick peas,
  Fishy Ground Bait
• DAT Food in Tuttie-frutty and Obsession
  
  Pescaviva shrimp and scopex
  
  coffee/pepper dough
• Molasses Maize,
  Dat Food,
  Chick Peas,
  a fish/scopex/chillie ground bait
• First fish was on pineapple flavored feed corn on a hair rig. After that though nopthing was touching it.
  
  Changed to the cream corn and grits pack bait and caught 4 other fish within 3 hours
• Dat food (strawberry, Gold, scopex)
  Pescaviva trout pellet and scopex
  WCB Scopex Pop-ups
  chick peas
  
• This fish was caught on a Maize and Maple combo
• Dat food, Chick peas and feed corn as well as a good bread/crushed boilie/anise-pepper ground mix

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• 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
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• slug
• worm
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Hand size Kivas
• Shiinners
• Perfect size Kivas

Tube Check Prices

• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• drop shots and topwater
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• June Bug tube
• june bug tubes
• salt and pepper purple flake tube
• Chartreuse pepper flack tube

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'.
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• Carolina Rig
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• 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.

Minnow Check Prices

• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• small minnows, pretty active
• shiner
• Some guy bought some live shiners at Big O's and left us with a few. This one was about 3" long and brought in a 10" perch.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Jitter Bug
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Jitterbug
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
• Black jitter bug.
• Purple Flash Popper
• good ole fashioned jitter bug

Lizard Check Prices

• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Red/Red

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• Sluggo
• bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding
• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• red 5" Senko

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

• brown/gold w/ red
• Brown/Gold w/ Red
• Stirke King KVD Sexy Shad Spinnerbait
• Shad colored spinnerbait w/ white trailer
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
• Red/black single Colorado gold
• firetiger tandem silver willow spinnerbait, with a split tail chartruese trailer.
• Strike King® KVD Spinnerbaits - Double Willow Color Sexy Shad
• Spinner white/green with silver/gold blades
• Tornado spinner bait

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
• Strike King Rage Toad
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• 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.
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• X-Rap
• A pair of 7in on a jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• Rooster Tail
  1. 9in
  2. 10.5in
• 1st. 8in 6oz
  2nd. 5in
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8 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

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• assorted plastics and spinner bait top water frog
• Green Worm with red flakes
• Green worm, green flakes
• sweat tater pie
• purple flake 6"
• 5" Senko Pumpkin Black flake
• 5" Senko Black Blue Flake
• Senko Pumpkin Black Flake
• 4 Fish here caught on Senkos. 1 on LiveTarget Frog.
• Black Gary Yamamottos, 5" and Green Tailed YUM worms, 5"

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Dark Senkos wacky
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• xps swimbait
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Storm Shad Minnow
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait

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
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• 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.
• 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"

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Drop Shot
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
• They hit everything! Jigs, Spinnerbait, Senko, Spider Grub, Crankbaits
• Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
  The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
• 2-1/4lber was my best
  Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
• Spider Grubs, Crankbait, Jig, Senko, Spinnerbait.
  A couple at 11-1/2", most between 10"-11"
• 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
  the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

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
• 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.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• 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
• Rapala Original #7
• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail
• Rooster tail
• bleeding hook rapala floater
• Rapala F-5 Original

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
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• Rapala Jerkbait
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Minnow
• Rapala Jointed crankbait
• keep on crankin
• did not change my lure all day
• steady retrieve
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Strike King Pro Series 1XS - Sexy Shad
• Rapala Original F-7 - Minnow
• X-rap Extreme - Yellow Perch
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Perch

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• !/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.
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• 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
• 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

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• silver spoon
• regular silver spoon
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• 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!
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• nice large nightcrawlers
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• 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
• just a small piece
  
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• Kids materials

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.

Blade Bait Check Prices

• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub

Other Check Prices

• Again corn, white bread work well..I make much of my own dough bait or order some mixes through Wacker Baits
• Sweet corn
• Same as the other locations. Maple peas worked well for me here, corn, bread, boilies of various flavors.
• Dat Food Obsession
  Dat Food Tuttie
  Dat Food Omega
  Chick peas
  Pescaviva sweet corn
• Dat food, feed corn were used. Dat food produced some but the real hitter of the day was a grits based pack bait ( see the bait tutorial in the forums or on www.blackstonecarp.com)
• Again Feed corn is a big success here. Also shrimp/fishy flavored boilies have produced well.
  
  
• Many things keep coming along for the ride. Sweet corn flavored various ways,
  Feed corn heavy on molasses,
  Dat food milk based with heavy seed/forage
  
• Feed corn and Dat food boilies have become my baits of choice as well as staples in any trip.
  
  Molasses and fishy flavors seem to still work well, though strawberry has been more and more effective.
  
  
• Feed corn is a staple for our trips lately, though it was clearly out performed number wise by a cat food/grits/cream corn mix method-pack bait.
  
  The biggest fish of the session however was taken along the far left margins, with 2 pieces of feed corn on a sliding hair rig, with a size 6 hook.
• Maple peas were on the menu today. I chummed maize/peas/boilies/strawberry corn