Fishing near Medfield in Norfolk County, MA

Check Prices

• shiner
• will use nightcrawlers
• Yum 5" senko type worm and Yum 3.5" craw papi.
• assorted plastics
• zoom finese watermelon seed
• senkos
• senkos blk/blu flake
• zoom watermelon seed finese worms
• Fat body rubber craw, watermelon candy color
• Little Cleo Spoon in Copper and Silver

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• worm
• slug
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• Shiner one foot below float.
• cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
• 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
• Large and XL Shiners
• Large Minnows

Creature Check Prices

• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• 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'.
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Black and Blue as usual
• Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin

Tube Check Prices

• tube dark...
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• use small tube
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• minitube flourescent
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• June Bug tube

Minnow Check Prices

• small minnows, pretty active
• 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
• shiner
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• shiners
• medium-sized 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.
• Shiners
• Dead minnows

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Purple Flash Popper
• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• topwater and worms
• Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
• Black jitter bug.
• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• basic top water pencil popper type lure.
• Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• red 5" Senko
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• baby bass berkley slug
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• Two 1lb Pickerel
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife

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

• single coloroado # 5, blue w/red speckle skirt.3/8oz
• Worked several lures, while my son was busy catching the fish with shiners.
• Fishing tree lines
• Fishing shore line
• Fishing rocks and open water
• Mostly caught on shore line with a spinner bait or buzz bait
• Tornado spinner bait
• my dads was on an S.K spinnerbait.
  the one I lost was on a KVD swim jig
• tornado black
• Shad colored spinnerbait w/ white trailer

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Spro Frog
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• Strike King Rage Toad
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).

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.
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• 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
• Jerkbait
• seinko 5" junebug purple
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• mepps agalia
• Panther Martin
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/8 oz. Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• Gold spinner
• 1/6 Rooster Tail
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/8 rooster tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• 4-inch yum dinger
• 6" blue and black fleck stick worm
• 17" 2lb 2oz, 3/4lb, and 1lb 5oz
• Yamamoto Senko, Chartreuse and Black.
• Purple Ribbontails worms. They love 'em here. Texas style on an offset shank hook.
• 5" Yamamoto Senko
  Pumpkin Green with Purple and Copper Flakes
  Weightless, Tex-Posed
• Used 5" senko, a frog for the lilly pads, hula popper, 5 inch minnow
• Gary Yamamoto 5" Senko
  159 Blue Black Chart Flake
  aka. Black Magic
• 4" senko
• Rigged 6" worm almost floating on the service no weight slow retrieve

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Storm Shad Minnow
• xps swimbait
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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
• 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"
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• Dropshot Sluggo
• Dropshot
• 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
• Drop Shot
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• 1 Keeper barely 12"
  The rest were in the 8"-11"range

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.
• 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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rapala Original #7
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Rooster Tail
• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• bleeding hook rapala floater
• Rapala F-5 Original
• I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
  Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait
• Rocket Shad Spinnerbait
• White and blue Spinnerbait
• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail

Craw Check Prices

• 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
• crawdads and soft frogs
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• 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
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• 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
• Rapala Jerkbait
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• SPRO BBZ1

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
• 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
• jig n pig
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  

Crankbait Check Prices

• perch rapala
• 3 nice calicos. all on rapalas
• switched between crankbaits and yums. only crankbaits working today.
• rapala
• - White (Bass Pro)
  
  - Yellow and gold, shiny, resembles a Yellow Perch (Bass Pro).
• Strike King KVD Shad/Purple Square Bill Shallow Running Crankbait (Not exact name)
• Bass Pro XPS suspending minnow
• strike pro
• shallow crank square almost matching bass color
• Used a small suspending minnow worked great caught a couple of yellow perch as well

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• Strike King Bass Jig
• 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
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• 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
• !/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.

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• Storm 2in Perch
• 5" and 6" Senko
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• nice large nightcrawlers
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• live worm on float
• Kids materials

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.
• 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
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• Greyish, green, red face
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms
• Clams
• Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper Fishing
• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!
• Popper fishing off the boat

Blade Bait Check Prices

• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
• chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail
• Fresh Cut Pogies
• Seaworms
• Sea Worms

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• Sweetcorn
• Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
• 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
• Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
• Powerbait
• SPINNER BAIT
• White Berkely Honey worm
• rooster tail