Fishing near Norfolk in Norfolk County, MA

Check Prices

• 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.
• we used wonder bread for the carp. and the bass were hitting spoons
• zoom watermelon seed finese worms
• senkos t rigged midnight flake
• will use nightcrawlers
• shiner
• Yum 5" senko type worm and Yum 3.5" craw papi.
• Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.
• black worm
• assorted plastics

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• slug
• worm
• Shiner one foot below 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
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• Medium sized Frog
• cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
• live shiners, 5-6 inches long

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.
• Black and Blue as usual
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
• squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.

Tube Check Prices

• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• tube dark...
• 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
• use small tube
• texas rigged
• minitube flourescent
• 8 lb line
  weightless
  3/0 hook
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety

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
• Shiners
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• shiner
• Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• Caught by a friend on a 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.
• 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

• good ole fashioned 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
• Purple Flash Popper
• Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Jitter Bug
• Black jitter bug.
• Rapala Poppers
• basic top water pencil popper type lure.

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• red 5" Senko
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• baby bass berkley slug
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad

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

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

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

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.
• A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
• Jerkbait
• A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
• 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
• seinko 5" junebug purple
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• mepps agalia
• Panther Martin
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/8 oz. Rooster Tail
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 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

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• wonderbread to the rescue
• zoom finese worm watermelon seed and power bait bass atractant
• Zoom Watermelon seed
• Purple Ribbontails worms. They love 'em here. Texas style on an offset shank hook.
• senkos you name it i tryed it tried a kvd squair bill 4 ft dive even tried a plug around the pads
• Just a regular powerbait worm hooked thru the top.
• 4-inch yum dinger
• Rigged 6" worm almost floating on the service no weight slow retrieve
• 4-inch yum.
• Yamamoto Senko, Chartreuse and Black.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

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
• 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.
• 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

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
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• Dropshot Sluggo
• Dropshot
• Worm, and Spinnerbait
  
  1.48lbs, and three 1lbers
  
  4 shorts
• 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

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

• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Rapala Original #7
• Rocket Shad Spinner 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
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• 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

• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• Rapala Jerkbait
• 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.
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

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
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  

Crankbait Check Prices

• Bass Pro XPS suspending minnow
• 3 nice calicos. all on rapalas
• switched between crankbaits and yums. only crankbaits working today.
• shallow crank square almost matching bass color
• Used a small suspending minnow worked great caught a couple of yellow perch as well
• Shallow Water Daiwa Crank. Fished slow
• kept hitting the crankbait right on of the cast just as i started retirieve.
• nicholas had 11 and i had 4. all crankbaits. a couple were pretty big for sunfish.
• Rapala DT-4
• perch rapala

Bass Jig Check Prices

• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• Strike King Bass Jig
• 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
• Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
• Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.
  
  YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer

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
• 5" and 6" Senko
• Storm 2in Perch
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

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"
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• live worm on float

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper Fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• Pink Powerbait nuggets
• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• Sweetcorn
• Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
• Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
• These are trout waters and by RI rules that means no chumming, no corn. So boilies, glugs and maple peas were on the menu. I had a few good hits on some homemade Scopex flavored boilies but no hook ups.
  
  The one I did manage to catch was on Maple peas, two on a short hair, with a 2 oz semi-fixed bolt rig.
• I had a variety of bait with me, however they were only striking a pack bait made of grits, corn juice and molasses plus some other flavoring.
  
  roughly 24 oz quick grits
  juice from one can of corn
  a good bit of molasses
  baby rice cereal to help fluff it out
  
  Place one or two corn pops on the hook and then pack it pretty good into golf ball sized lumps around your hook and pops.
  
• Berkley PowerBait
• Chummed with feed corn/maple peas and a ground mix of oats/grits/bran/condensed milk/cream corn
  
  Hook bait was Feed corn and maple peas
• Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.