Fishing near Natick in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• Senko green w/red sparkle
• white rooster tail
• Shallow Shad Rap #7 - Bluegill Pattern
• Chartruese dough Power Bait
• Jig Never weighed it in with all the bags that were caught
• GARRY YAMMAMOTO (GREEN WHITE) NO WEIGHT
• SPINNER
• sweetcorn
• Silver lipless crank bait
• Pulling into the access point, I find this...

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• worm
• slug
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• Large and XL Shiners
• Large Minnows
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
• Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

• 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.
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• 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'.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver

Minnow Check Prices

• shiner
• 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
• 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.
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• Dead minnows
• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog
• Black jitter bug.
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Popper
• Rapala SkitterPop 7 in brown frog
• I use frogs, senko, spinnerbaits. jigs. Just about anything will work here if u know what your doing. And have the tackle to get ém out the cabbage cuz its thick and so are they.
• Purple Flash Popper
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• 3.5inch Jitterbug (arbogast)

Lizard Check Prices

• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• 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 .
• Red/Red
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• green w/ red fleck
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
• Two 1lb Pickerel
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
• 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
• 6" on inline spinner
  3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
• 1st was 13" 1lb
  2nd was 6"

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  
• 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.
  
  
• Joes fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• One 12" Jumbo Perch, and @ smaller ones
• Chartruesse w/Red - Plus a trailerhook saved the catch
• Chartruese w/ green and red
• White Double willow spinner
• Big chartreuse spinner bait; I forget the brand
• Chartreuse spinner bait for one bass, Zoom green 6" plastic lizard for the other
• strike king with trailing hook that caught both.
• a crankbait with a spinner attached on the front.
• light green
• any bright color

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• Spro Frog
• yellow paddle tail frog. we saw a break in the water and knew there was a good fish. hit it a few times till he got him to take it.
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• Jerkbait
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
• Rapala F05 BCF
  Rebel minnow F07 Silver

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• 1/8 oz. Rooster Tail
• 1/8 rooster tail
• 2 7in Calico's
• 1st Bass 8in
  2nd 6in
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Brown Metallic Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• rooster tail
• Mepps Black fury #3

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• a couple on a perch rapala, but most were on a 4-inch green yum.
• 4" yums and crankbaits
• 4" yum
• 4" Yums
• 4" Yums. these are my favorite as i have had the most success with them. only walked away twice this year without catching at least one bass.
• Weightless Texas Rigged 5" Senko - Pumpkin Seed
• Senko and Sluggo
  
• Lunker City Spanky
  1st Bass 14in 1lb 3oz
  2nd Bass 12.5in 12oz
• Senko
• 4" Senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• 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"
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 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
• one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
• Shaky Head
• Jigs, Worms, Cranks
  Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
  Many shorts caught
• pitching into the pads with a craw
• Drop Shot

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.
• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead
• 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rapala F-5 Original
• I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
  Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait
• bleeding hook rapala floater
• Rocket Shad Spinnerbait
• White and blue Spinnerbait
• Rooster Tail
• Rapala Husky Jerk #6
• Rapala Jointed Shad Rap #5
• Rapala Husy Jerk #6
• Rapala Original Perch #7

Craw Check Prices

• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• 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
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

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
• 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
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Matzuo competition crankbait.
• rapala
• silver and perch rapala
• silver rapala
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Minnow
• This was my first bass off the year. Fishing a Rapala Minnow Rap MR9 Bleeding Shad color
• Rapala #7 Shallow Shad Rap (Bluegill pattern)
• using rapalas hoping to get a trout with no luck. tons of pickerel tonight.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 1st was 17-1/2in 2lb-3/4lb
  3rd was 12-1/2in 3/4lb
• 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
• Couple of 1-1/2lbers, couple of 1lber, and a 1/2lber
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• SENKO(GREEN),SLUGO(BLUE)
• Black blue 1/4 oz jig. Creature bait Trailor
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• White Booyah swim jig with a White split tail trailer. Slowly crawled over rocks

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Storm 2in Perch
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger
• Wolly Bugger
• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.

Other Check Prices

• 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
• Sweetcorn
• SPINNER BAIT
• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
• Got one on the mop jig just across the current. Got another on the buzzbait a little further out. Got a couple of shorts.
• rooster tail
• White Berkely Honey worm
• Just used some more powerbait. I'm thinking next time I may try some mealworms or nightcrawlers. Maybe a few small senkos as well.