Fishing near Millis in Norfolk County, MA

Check Prices

• will use nightcrawlers
• zoom watermelon seed finese worms
• assorted plastics
• Senkos rigged wacky and texas
• Wacky Seko BK/BL
• zoom finese watermelon seed
• shiner
• senkos
• Yum 5" senko type worm and Yum 3.5" craw papi.
• 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.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

• 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
• tube dark...
• use small tube
• minitube flourescent
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• June Bug tube

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
• 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

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
• shiner
• 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.
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• Shiners
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• 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

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

Lizard Check Prices

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

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Green Popper Frog Fly
• 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
  

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Worked several lures, while my son was busy catching the fish with shiners.
• Tornado spinner bait
• Shad colored spinnerbait w/ white trailer
• Red/black single Colorado gold
• single coloroado # 5, blue w/red speckle skirt.3/8oz
• tornado black
• firetiger tandem silver willow spinnerbait, with a split tail chartruese trailer.
• Fishing tree lines
• Fishing shore line
• Fishing rocks and open water

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• Jerkbait
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
• 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
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/8 oz. Rooster Tail
• mepps agalia
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6 Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  ***
  1st one was 8 1/2in 7oz
  2nd one was 8in 4oz
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  ***Two 4in, One 8in, one 8 1/2in
• 1st fish of the night

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• Used 5" senko, a frog for the lilly pads, hula popper, 5 inch minnow
• 4" senko
• Gary Yamamoto 5" Senko
  159 Blue Black Chart Flake
  aka. Black Magic
• Purple Ribbontails worms. They love 'em here. Texas style on an offset shank hook.
• zoom finese worm watermelon seed and power bait bass atractant
• Zoom Watermelon seed
• yum soft worm
• 4-inch yum dinger
• Wacky worms in blue/black, green/white, white/silver
• 6" blue and black fleck stick worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• xps swimbait
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Storm Shad Minnow
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• 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
• 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"
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• Drop Shot
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• Dropshot Sluggo
• Dropshot
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• 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

• 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
• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• 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
• 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
  4 on Rooster Tail
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG

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
• 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
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• 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".
• SPRO BBZ1

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

• 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
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  

Crankbait Check Prices

• perch rapala
• Bass Pro XPS suspending minnow
• rapala
• 3 nice calicos. all on rapalas
• switched between crankbaits and yums. only crankbaits working today.
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Perch
• Bass Pro Shops XPS Lazer Eye Hardbaits - Super Shallow Crank in Homer color.
• - White (Bass Pro)
  
  - Yellow and gold, shiny, resembles a Yellow Perch (Bass Pro).
• keep on crankin
• did not change my lure all day

Bass Jig Check Prices

• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• 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
• !/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.
• Strike King Bass Jig
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• 1st was 17-1/2in 2lb-3/4lb
  3rd was 12-1/2in 3/4lb
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• Couple of 1-1/2lbers, couple of 1lber, and a 1/2lber

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
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 5" and 6" Senko
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• nice large nightcrawlers
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• 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"
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• Kids materials

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• 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'
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• 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
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• Greyish, green, red face
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

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.
• Dropshotting
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• 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
• 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.

Other Check Prices

• Sweetcorn
• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• 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
• rooster tail
• Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
• SPINNER BAIT
• power bait
• power bait off bottom
• Again corn, white bread work well..I make much of my own dough bait or order some mixes through Wacker Baits