Fishing near Lancaster in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• 1.5 KVD Crankbait, Yamamoto 4.5 inch Pumpkin Grub, Spinnerbait, Swim Baits, Rubber Worms.
• Goliath size perch
• Shinners
  
  Big Ones
• Big ass shiners
• 3/4 Ounce Blue and Silver Kastmaster
• BHB Jigs
  Senko
  Kivas
  Yellow candy
  Shinners
• 3/4 Oz Blue and Silver Kastmaster
• Look for the ramp, it a little one!
• Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters
• plastics

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• 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
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color

Minnow Check Prices

• Medium shiner
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• Kivas
  Shinners
• actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
• 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.
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• 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 shiners on trokar hooks
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Jitterbug
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Popper
• Though I have caught a few bass on various lures here so far, topwaters seem to be the most productive by far. It makes sense when you think about. Go down to Fairhaven on a summer night and just try and count the splashes on the surface. I lost count somewhere around 20.
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Black jitter bug.

Lizard Check Prices

• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• 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

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.
• 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 - Rainbow Trout
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• red
• strike king 3/8 oz spinner
• 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
• Spinnerbait
• Spinner green bleeder
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf
• Green Bleeder
• 1/2 oz. chartreuse shad rocket
• white skirt

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• 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.
• Ribbit frog
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• 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.
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• X-Rap
• 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
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Silver / Black Roostertail
• Blue Fox Inline Minow
• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• Asortment of spinners.
• All 4 and 5 inch Bass
• 5in and 9in Bass
• Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
• two 6in, and one 3" Bass
• One 7" and one 8"
• All Between 7"-4"

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Senko, Watermelon, Weedless-rigged
• Senko, Watermelon, Wacky-rigged
• Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
  spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
• Red Senko took it on the fall on the fall
• 6" Yamamoto Senko black/pink worm
• Green worm
• 6" finesse worm
• 5 inch senko
  cinnamon color
  #4 ewg gamakatsu hook
• 5 inch senko
• My 3 Keepers with biggest 1-1/2
  5 Non-keepers

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• xps swimbait

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
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Soft Baits Check Prices

• My Best 5:
  Two 2lbers
  1-1/2lber
  1-1/4lber
  1lber
• Drop Shot
• pitching into the pads with a craw
• Jigs, Worms, Cranks
  Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
  Many shorts caught
• one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
• Shaky Head
• Senko and Dropshot
• Dropshot
• 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

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• senkos
• Blue Fox Vibrax series
• Bluegill flash 5 inch super fluke
  Bluegill chatterbait with a watermelon pearl lft swimbait
  1/4 ounce blk/blu booyah baby boo jig with a black yum craw papi
  2 inch baby bass bps grub
• Rooster Tail
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
• 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
  4 on Rooster Tail
• Koppers livetarget frog
  scumfrog little bigfoot frog
  zoom super fluke
• rapala red ratalin rap

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

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

• kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• rapala wounded minnow
• Same as Bass 1
• Same details as Bass 1
• Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
• strike king sexy shad
• Srike King crank bait, Sexy shad
  dives 2 to 5 feet
• Square Bill

Bass Jig Check Prices

• brown
• 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
  
• 1st was 1lb 3oz
  2nd was 2lb 5oz
• Crawfish style.
• 3lb 4oz
  A couple 3lbers
  A couple 2-3/4blers
  Half a dozen 2-1/2lbers
  A dozen 2lbers
  ...so many fish! I lost count!
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 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.
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• Berkeley GULP!
• texas rigged senko
• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger
• Wolly Bugger
• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• just a small piece
  
• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
• worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Greyish, green, red face
• 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.
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• 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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
• Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
  Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait
• Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
  Booyah Frog
• Pumpkin tail carolina style

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail
• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub

Other Check Prices

• Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
• Corn and lots of it
• Green Power Bait
• Creamy Corn
  Whole Kernel
• 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
• 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
  1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
• White Bread