Fishing near Medway in Norfolk County, MA

Check Prices

• Senkos rigged wacky and texas
• Wacky Seko BK/BL
• zoom watermelon seed finese worms
• will use nightcrawlers
• assorted plastics
• Chartruese Egg Power Bait
• zoom finese watermelon seed
• we used wonder bread for the carp. and the bass were hitting spoons
• 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.
• Senko- watermelon and purple flake

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

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
• tube dark...
• use small tube
• minitube flourescent
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• June Bug tube
• june bug tubes

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

Minnow Check Prices

• 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
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• 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.
• shiner
• 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
• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• Shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Purple Flash Popper
• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• Jitter Bug
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Black jitter bug.
• 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
• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog

Lizard Check Prices

• 8" Pumpkinseed
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• Red/Red
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• 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 - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• 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
• red 5" Senko
• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Shad colored spinnerbait w/ white trailer
• Red/black single Colorado gold
• Tornado spinner bait
• firetiger tandem silver willow spinnerbait, with a split tail chartruese trailer.
• tornado black
• Worked several lures, while my son was busy catching the fish with shiners.
• Strike King® KVD Spinnerbaits - Double Willow Color Sexy Shad
• Spinner white/green with silver/gold blades
• single coloroado # 5, blue w/red speckle skirt.3/8oz
• brown/gold w/ red

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
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 9in
  2. 10.5in
• 1st. 8in 6oz
  2nd. 5in
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
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  1st one was 8 1/2in 7oz
  2nd one was 8in 4oz

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• Wacky worms in blue/black, green/white, white/silver
• yum soft worm
• Zoom Watermelon seed
• zoom finese worm watermelon seed and power bait bass atractant
• 6" pumkin and green stick worm
• Green Worm with red flakes
• Green worm, green flakes
• 4" senko
• 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

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• xps swimbait
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Storm Shad Minnow
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• 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

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
• 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.
• 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"

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
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• Dropshot
• Dropshot Sluggo
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• 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

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
• 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.
• 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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Rapala Original #7
• 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
  4 on Rooster Tail
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
• Rooster Tail
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail
• bleeding hook rapala floater
• Rapala F-5 Original
• I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
  Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait

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
• 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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• 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
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".

Jigs Check Prices

• 11" on Shaky Head
  15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
• jig n pig
• Our Limit was :
  My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz
  
  1lb and under on the rest
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...

Crankbait Check Prices

• Bass Pro XPS suspending minnow
• perch rapala
• keep on crankin
• did not change my lure all day
• steady retrieve
• rapala
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Perch
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Minnow
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Strike King Pro Series 1XS - Sexy Shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• 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
• Strike King Bass Jig
• 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
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• Storm 2in Perch
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• 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" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.

Other Check Prices

• power bait
• power bait off bottom
• rooster tail
• 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
• Again Feed corn is a big success here. Also shrimp/fishy flavored boilies have produced well.
  
  
• 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)
• 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.