Fishing near Hopkinton in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• Drop Shot - Sluggo
• Drop shot w/new bait.
  (I'll Tell ya later)
• Drop Shot
• White Wooly Bugger
• Large topwater popper.
• Texas rigged super fluke baby bass
• Senko - watermelon blk flake
• wacky bk/bl senko
• wacky senkos bk/bl & watermelon
• Jitterbug the whole time. I had a 9 inch swim bait on board but there was no need to bust it out due to the action I was getting on the jitter!

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Chartreuse Powerbait
• slug
• worm
• Large and XL Shiners
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• Large Minnows
• Medium sized Frog
• Big Kiva
• White suckers
• 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
• minitube flourescent
• 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

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

Minnow Check Prices

• 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
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• shiner
• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• 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
• 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.
• Kivas
  Shinners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Jitter Bug
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Jitterbug
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Black jitter bug.
• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog
• Popper

Lizard Check Prices

• 8" Pumpkinseed
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• Red/Red
• 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
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 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
• 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
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife

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
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
• rooster tail
• Spinner white/green with silver/gold blades
• Strike King® KVD Spinnerbaits - Double Willow Color Sexy Shad
• white and red tandem colorado
  long tail
• 3/16oz Black Buzzbait
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• Spro Frog
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• 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
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• 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.
• 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
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• X-Rap
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• a lot of plastic worms work out.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1st. 8in 6oz
  2nd. 5in
• Rooster Tail
  1. 9in
  2. 10.5in
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 5in and 9in Bass
• All 4 and 5 inch Bass

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• Wack Rigged Senko
• Tru-Tungsten Dart
• 1/8oz Ikey Head and 5in Powerbait Shakey Head Worm in Green Pumpkin
• 5in Senko
  1st - 14in 1lb 1oz
  2nd - 13.5in 14oz
  3rd - 13.75in 1lb
  4th - 16.75in 1lb 13oz
• wacky rigged Spanky
• I'm guessing when it comes to the size. I had stupidly left my scale and measuring board in the Jeep. I actually did try a variety of lures here, looking for Bass and big Pickerel. Once again though, it was the power worm that produced.
• Green Pumpkin/Watermelon
• Used a bubblegum 5" senko, buried hook point, no weights. Bounced off bottom.
• Dark senkos wacky style
• 5 inch Slug-go. Brown speckled

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Dark Senkos wacky
• xps swimbait
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• 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
• Storm Shad Minnow
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah

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
• 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
• Jerkbait
• 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"

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
• 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
• Dropshot
• Dropshot Sluggo
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• My Best 5:
  Two 2lbers
  1-1/2lber
  1-1/4lber
  1lber

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
• 1/32oz 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.
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo

Craw Check Prices

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

• 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
• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail
• I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
  Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait
• Rapala F-5 Original
• Rapala Original #7
• bleeding hook rapala floater

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
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Rapala Jerkbait

Jigs Check Prices

• 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
• 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...

Crankbait Check Prices

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

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.
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• 1st was 17-1/2in 2lb-3/4lb
  3rd was 12-1/2in 3/4lb
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• Couple of 1-1/2lbers, couple of 1lber, and a 1/2lber
• 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
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• SENKO(GREEN),SLUGO(BLUE)

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• texas rigged senko
• 4"senko
• Storm 2in Perch
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Only keeper was just over a pound

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

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
• 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
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• 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.
• nice large nightcrawlers
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• just a small piece
  
• Kids materials
• live worm on float

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
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• 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
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• 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.

Other Check Prices

• rooster tail
• power bait
• power bait off bottom
• usually rubber worms
• 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
• 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, 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)