Fishing near Mansfield in Bristol County, MA

Check Prices

• Worm
• shiners
• Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.
• black worm
• Standard BPS Red/White 3" Popper and a purple/black spinner bait
• 5 inch senko neon green/cream 4 inch watermellon w/ blk flake they were hitting on the way in. just drifting and casting on little cleo spoons.
• we used wonder bread for the carp. and the bass were hitting spoons
• Rubber worms, swimbaits
• senkos t rigged midnight flake
• Yum 5" senko type worm and Yum 3.5" craw papi.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Shiner one foot below float.
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• live shiners, 5-6 inches long
• 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
• porgy
• worm
• slug
• Medium sized Frog

Creature Check Prices

• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• 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'.
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• Black and Blue as usual
• Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
• 4in beaver bait black and blue
  1oz tungsten
• Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
  -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
• Colorful Grub and a Pitboss

Tube Check Prices

• texas rigged
• tube dark...
• 8 lb line
  weightless
  3/0 hook
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• use small tube

Minnow Check Prices

• Caught by a friend on a shiner.
• Shiners
• Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
• Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• 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
• medium-sized shiner
• shiners
• shiner

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
• Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
• topwater and worms
• Rapala Poppers
• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
• same as bass bait
• Purple Flash Popper
• basic top water pencil popper type lure.
• Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top

Lizard Check Prices

• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• Red/Red
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• Sluggo
• red 5" Senko
• baby bass berkley slug
• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• 6" Senko (see pic for color)
  Rapala Floating Minnow
• 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
• 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
• Mann's Shadow
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• golden spinner
• 3/8 oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ nickel colorado blade
• Mostly caught on shore line with a spinner bait or buzz bait
• 1 keeper @ 1.36lbs, and 5 shorts
• tornado black
• white spinner bait with white curly tail grub
• Fishing tree lines
• Fishing rocks and open water
• single coloroado # 5, blue w/red speckle skirt.3/8oz
• Fishing shore line

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Strike King Rage Toad
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• chartreuse SnagProof frog
• Spro Frog
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
• Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
• Jerkbait
• A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
• RC jerkbait did most of the heavy lifting. It caught 7 0f the 8 bass 5 of the 7 pickles and 1 sunnie.
  
  Also caught a bass on a spinnerbait and 2 pickles on a minus
• slow action on jerkbait long pauses
• seinko 5" junebug purple
• I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
• I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
• small ultra lite baits
  
  many species of fish caught over the years; trout, salmon, largemouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, calico bass, pickerel, blue gills.
  The 100 is estimated

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Panther Martin
• mepps agalia
• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
• Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
• Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
• silver/red inline spinner
  
  white/red spot jerk bait
• Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
• Rooster Tail
• Gold spinner

Worm Check Prices

• i got 2 on a 4 inch yum and nicholas got 1 on a rapala. i did hook a 4 or 5 pounder on a spoon, only to have him snap my line about 5 feet from the boat. at least he looked that big.
  
  less than a half hour before i was telling nicholas how i could see my line had stretched and weakened from all the fish we were catching. and sure enough, finally hooked a nice one and....
• green w/ red flake
• 5" stick worms YUMM green pumpkin and BassPro green with red, blue, and gold flake. This one was on a YUMM green Pumpkin
• Senko
• 5" stick worms YUMM green pumpkin and BassPro green with red, blue, and gold flake. This one was on a YUMM green Pumpkin also.
• rat l trap, wacky worm
• green bass pro worm with purple flakes
• 5" Red/Black Senko
• red shad senko 6 inch
• Just a regular powerbait worm hooked thru the top.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Storm Shad Minnow
• xps swimbait
• Storm shad mullet color
• Small swim bait. Also my 12 year old son caught one on a shiner. From this and previous trips, seen some close to a pound in here. Pretty decent size for a perch.
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
• A mix of 6" to 1lb
• 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
  2 shorts, and 2 lost
• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• 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

• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• Worm, and Spinnerbait
  
  1.48lbs, and three 1lbers
  
  4 shorts
• 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
• My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
  1-3/4lber
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  also a couple 1lbers, and a short
  
  Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait
• My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
  Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber
  
  Also 2 shorts
• Drop Shot
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 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.

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• zoom bass love em super fluke
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Powerbait
• Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
• Rapala Original #7
• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Rooster Tail
• bleeding hook rapala floater
• Black senko worm
• Black senko rubber worm

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Rapala Jerkbait
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
• blue silver reble

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

• metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

• i had 29 and nicholas had 34. mostly rapalas, but they were hitting everything we put in the water. most were 10 / 11 inches. a few smaller, a couple bigger.
• nicholas caught 15 and i got 4. all on rapalas
• tried a soft worm for a while, but got nothing. crankbaits and spoons work well on this pond.
• rebel ghost minnow - silver
• Rapala DT-4
• i had 10 (3 were 20+) and nicholas had 11. most were crankbaits, though i caught a couple on a rooster tail.
• Rapala DT-4, Perch
• 4 inch rapala original floater - gold
• perch rapala
• nicholas had 11 and i had 4. all crankbaits. a couple were pretty big for sunfish.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
• 3/4lb on Jig
  two 10 inchers on drop shot
• flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
• Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.
  
  YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
• Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  2lb 13oz, and a 2lber

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 5" and 6" Senko
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• Storm 2in Perch
• Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Only keeper was just over a pound

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Olive wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• regular silver spoon
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• gold little cleo
• Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
• Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
• 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• rattler
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• nice large nightcrawlers
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
• Live night crawler on a drop shot.
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• trout worms
• Just worms nothing special.

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• medium speed
• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper Fishing
• Popper fishing off the boat
• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
• Berkley white grub with a tail.
• Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
• Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
• Berkley White Grub.
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• Dropshotting

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
• Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

• Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
• Pink Powerbait nuggets
• Black Spinner Bait
  
  
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• Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
• Powerbait
• I had a variety of bait with me, however they were only striking a pack bait made of grits, corn juice and molasses plus some other flavoring.
  
  roughly 24 oz quick grits
  juice from one can of corn
  a good bit of molasses
  baby rice cereal to help fluff it out
  
  Place one or two corn pops on the hook and then pack it pretty good into golf ball sized lumps around your hook and pops.
  
• These are trout waters and by RI rules that means no chumming, no corn. So boilies, glugs and maple peas were on the menu. I had a few good hits on some homemade Scopex flavored boilies but no hook ups.
  
  The one I did manage to catch was on Maple peas, two on a short hair, with a 2 oz semi-fixed bolt rig.
• Chummed with feed corn/maple peas and a ground mix of oats/grits/bran/condensed milk/cream corn
  
  Hook bait was Feed corn and maple peas
• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners