Fishing near Monson in Hampden County, MA

Check Prices

• Flies and Jigs
• berkley power bait trout nugget
• Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
• shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
• 5 Keepers:
  2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  2 shorts
• 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
• Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
• Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
• 1/4 oz carolina lizard
• Chartreuse spinner bait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Big shiners
• eel
• They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
• Live Carwfish
• Chung's Best
• Hand size Kivas
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Shiinners
• Perfect size Kivas

Creature Check Prices

• zoom brush hawg pumpkin

Minnow Check Prices

• We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
• you play the bait and bobber set up similar to the canal at the cape.I set the bait at about 24-27",sent it up curent and let it pass you reel it back and repeat.
• Med Shiners
  Wish we had gotten some larger ones
• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• large shinners with a bobber
• tip ups
• large shiners on trokar hooks
• Chung's Best
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Popper
• Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass
  
  
• Lunker city Salad Spoon
• Live Target Brown Mouse
• Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
• Popper, Color Gold and black

Lizard Check Prices

• 1/4 oz c rig lizard
• 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• spinnerbait , plastic worms
• White 3/8 Strike King
• 2lber on Spinnerbait
  10" on drop shot
• Fast retrieve

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook

Streamer Check Prices

• Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Rapala blue and white rattle
• Rapala Original
• Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
• White and Red stick bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Rooster Tail
• meppes
• rooster tail
• Phoebe
• little rooster
• black Rooster tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

• PT

Worm Check Prices

• green pumpkin senko
• Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
• Yamamoto black Senko
• black senko
• 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
  Color: South Africa special
  1 on Live Target Frog
  Color: Bull Frog
• Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
• I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• Junebug Zoom worm
• June Bug colored zoom worms

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• jig heads / swim tails
• SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD
• Senco stretch 40
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• jig heads and swim baits

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Surprised I only got one today!
• Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
• 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
• Drop shot
• Dropshot
• 11" Drop Shot
  11-3/4" Carolina Rig
• Drop Shot, and Shakey Head

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
• Most were caught on a Trout Magnet . 1 on a Rapala and the other on aRooster Tail . Largest fish was the Last one caught . Trout magnet was the right bait to yse today.
• gulp

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Gulp Alive
• Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• ratl trap

Jigs Check Prices

• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...

Crankbait Check Prices

• Booyah tiger
• just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
• spinner bait
  yamos
  crankbaits
• nofish but I know they're here sometimes
• hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
• booya crankbaits brown and green
• yellow dancin eel
• crankbaits and spinners
• X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 4-1/4lb on a jig
  3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
  two 1lbers on buzzbait
  
• All on a swimjig
  
  My 9.75lb Limit was:
  2lbs 11oz
  2lbs 2oz
  2lbs 1oz
  1lb 8oz
  1lb 6oz
  
  5 more in the 1-1/4lb to 3/4lb range
• white and blue,fishing mud line
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
• white paddle tail
• yellow

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
• ok i have caught fish here with everything lures, shiners, night crawlers and i have even caught LMB with sunfish that i had caught on the worm initially. In fact when i realized that a huge bass was hitting my sunfish and the hook was too small to catch it, i rigged a bigger hook threw the fish back out and pulled in a 5-7lb bass. It was the 5th fat bass for summer 2009
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• red craw by bill lewis

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Zara Spook

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Trout Magnet Jig
• Trout Magnet Jigs
• Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
  One Brook Trout and one Rainbow.
• Trout Magnet
• Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body
• purple

Other Check Prices

• Rainbow Powerbait
• Powerbait rainbow
• rainbow or green powerbait
• Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
• Chicken Liver
• Big
  Dead
  
• powerbait yellow
• Garlic
  Garlic with Corn
• We use #2 hooks with leaders and tie them to our line
  A 3 oz weight to hold it on the bottom
• YELLOW GRUB
  WEIGHTS
  BIG HOOKS