Fishing near Needham in Norfolk County, MA

Check Prices

• bait
• Corn/catfish bait
  (see the trip details and other hotspots for more info)
• booyeah frog
• spinners
  rooster Tails
• GROSSLY
• Bacon on the bottom. 1 ounce sinker.
• Bacon on the bottom. 5/0 hook, one-ounce egg sinker.
• Bacon. 5/0 hook, 1-ounce egg sinker
• 2in Arbogast Jitterbug (dont know how he mouthed it)
• 2in Jitterbug

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• worm
• slug
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• 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.
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• SEAWORMS
• Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
  one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
• Seaworms on a custom flounder rig

Tube Check Prices

• tube dark...
• use small tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• minitube flourescent
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• Tube and huge sea worms

Creature Check Prices

• 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.
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• 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'.
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver

Minnow Check Prices

• shiner
• Dead minnows
• 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
• 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
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• medium-sized shiner
• shiners
• 2lb 9oz
  1-1/2lbs
  3-3/4lbs

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• 3.5inch Jitterbug (arbogast)
• 3inch Black Jitterbug
• Black Jitterbug
• 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.
• 3/8 jointed Jitterbug in black.
• BPS Popper, Texas special color.
• 3/8 oz. jointed, black Jitterbug. Heavy test, mono leader tied onto braid.
• Top water rappala, and a rooster tail spinner.
• Jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• Red/Red
• 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
• green w/ red fleck
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 6" on inline spinner
  3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
• 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
• 1st was 13" 1lb
  2nd was 6"
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
• Two 1lb Pickerel
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
• baby bass berkley slug

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• use orange spinner.. blue fox
• my dads was on an S.K spinnerbait.
  the one I lost was on a KVD swim jig
• White Double willow spinner
• Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye 3/8 oz. White and Chartreuse
• war eagle spinnerbait, in the
  "screming eagle" size which is a 1/2 oz in a 1/4 size. Awesome!
• tandem willow, firetiger
• BLACK TANDEM WILLOW
• war eagle spinnerbait in the "screaming eagle" size which is a 1/2 oz in the size of a 1/4 oz
• White spinner bait
• 3/8 oz. Booyah Counter Strike Spinnerbait (gold, willow leaf, white/chartreause).

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Spro Frog
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• 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.
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Gold spinner
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
• After not getting much action out of the worms, I decided to toss one of my old mepps black fly spinners out. On the second cast I caught the largest bass I've ever seen down here.
• Meeps - 1/6 oz. Black/Yellow Blade
  - Yellow Tail
• rooster tail
• #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.
• #4 Mepps with natural colored dressed trebles. 3/8 oz Blue Fox spoon, red and white striped with nickel underside.
• All Between 5" and 7"

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• Sabiki rig, white

Worm Check Prices

• 5" watermelon/creamwhite senko that was 'marinating' in a pumpkin/ black flake bag. In result the cream was almost a light brown color.
• Senko type worm Black and Silver
• purple senko
• Yamamoto Senko, Black with Red flakes
• 6" bass pro senko mardi gras
• 5 inch senko
• Yamamoto Black/Blue Flake Worm
• Watermelon w/ red flake senko
• Black/Blue Flake
• silver/whiteish, worked it slow and jerky deep in the weeds. bright sun

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Storm Shad Minnow
• 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
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• xps swimbait
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Dark Senkos wacky

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• 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
• My Biggest 2lb 13oz, followed by a couple 1-1/2lber, a couple 1lbers, and the rest were runts. Mostly shallow cranks, some jig, and senko too.

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Drop Shot
• Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
  1st was a little over a 1lb
  2nd was 12"
  3rd was 2lbs 2oz
• 1 Keeper barely 12"
  The rest were in the 8"-11"range
• 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
  The rest were in the 8"-11" range
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
• Chatterbait, Swimbait, Jig, Dropshot
  My Limit was 2lb 6oz, 2lb 5oz, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 7oz, and 1lb 6oz
  
  what didn't make the cut:
  two 1lb 6oz
  half a dozen between 1-1/4lb & 1lb
  one 14oz
  one short
• Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot
  
  Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)
  
  
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• Dropshot Sluggo

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.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rapala F-5 Original
• Rooster Tail
• Rapala F-7 Original Silver
• Rooster Tail
  Rapala F-5 Original
• Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
• Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
• bleeding hook rapala floater
• I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
  Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait
• White and blue Spinnerbait
• Rocket Shad Spinnerbait

Craw Check Prices

• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto 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.
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• 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
• crawdads and soft frogs
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• SPRO BBZ1
• 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
• Rapala Jerkbait
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• Strike King KVD Shad/Purple Square Bill Shallow Running Crankbait (Not exact name)
• Lucky Craft, Rick Clunn edition
  2.5
• strike pro
• One on a floating minnow, one on a wakebait
• Mid-depth crankbait
• Deep diver Purple slow retreive
• Rapala Original - F-9 - Bleeding Crawdad
• Strike King 1XS
• Rapala Original F-7 - Perch
• Lipless crankbait rat-l-trap.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Strike King Bass Jig
• Tube brown and red fig
• 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
• Northland tackle Jungle Jig
  3/8 oz Watermelon w/ blackflake, matching zoom chunk trailer
• USED GARY YAMAMOTTO WORMS HOOKED WEEDLESS
  SPENT AN HOUR AND A HALF
  PULLED IN WEEDS AND 2 BASS
  THE WEEDS DOWN IN THE COVE HAVE ALMOST COMPLETLY TAKEN OVER SEASON IS ALMOST OVER FOR SHORE FISHING DOWN THERE AND THE FISH HAVE BEEN SMALL FROM THE CHARLES THIS YEAR.
• Booyah boo jig watermelon,
  Zoom chunk trailer
• Green Football Jig with Green and Chartreuse Skirt
• Strike King KVD swim jig, Bluegill pattern, with green pumpkin grub trailer.
• JIG N PIG
  4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
  WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
• SENKO CLEA/ORANGE

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
• Storm 2in Perch
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• yamamoto swimsenko
• Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• rattler
• 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
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• Greyish, green, red face
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

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
• Popper fishing off the boat
• Popper fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• 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.
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• Dropshot
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• Berkley White Grub.

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• Sweetcorn
• White Berkely Honey worm
• Natural Berkley Honey worm
• Rainbow powerbait
• Powerbait
• Chartreuse power bait. Slip rig with a one once egg sinker and about two feet of leader.
• Power Bait
• Yellow power eggs