Fishing near Northbridge in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• Shiner hooded beside dorsal fin.
• For bait I kept it simple today. I was travelling by canoe and wanted a light bait bucket. Chick peas, and a batch of strawberry chicks plus DAT food boilies. I used a small amount of ground bait made of breadcrumbs and rolled oats plus some crushed boilies and river water to help hold the carp in the area.
  
  
• Molasses maize,
  Dat Food
  Chick peas,
  Fishy Ground Bait
• Dat food (strawberry, Gold, scopex)
  Pescaviva trout pellet and scopex
  WCB Scopex Pop-ups
  chick peas
  
• DAT Food in Tuttie-frutty and Obsession
  
  Pescaviva shrimp and scopex
  
  coffee/pepper dough
• Molasses Maize,
  Dat Food,
  Chick Peas,
  a fish/scopex/chillie ground bait
• First fish was on pineapple flavored feed corn on a hair rig. After that though nopthing was touching it.
  
  Changed to the cream corn and grits pack bait and caught 4 other fish within 3 hours
• This fish was caught on a Maize and Maple combo
• Dat food, Chick peas and feed corn as well as a good bread/crushed boilie/anise-pepper ground mix
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  We had plenty of bait on hand. Blackstone Carp brought its very own DAT food boilies for the public to use, we also had a bucket of prepared feed corn, a bucket of Maple peas, a bucket of Chick Peas, a container of Luncheon Meat and a few loaves of bread.
  
  Fish were caught on Feed corn, DAT food Strawberry, and Chick Peas.
  
  

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Medium sized Frog
• 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
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Hand size Kivas
• Shiinners
• Perfect size Kivas
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Chung's Best
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• Big Kiva

Tube Check Prices

• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• drop shots and topwater
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• June Bug tube
• june bug tubes
• salt and pepper purple flake tube
• Chartreuse pepper flack tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube

Creature Check Prices

• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• Carolina Rig
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• 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

Minnow Check Prices

• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• 5 Tip Ups- 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
• 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.
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• live bait old school
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies
• Chung's Best
• mediums

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
• Jitter Bug
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Jitterbug
• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Black jitter bug.
• Zara Spook Baby Bass

Lizard Check Prices

• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• Sluggo
• bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
• 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 - Tennessee Shad
• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• 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.
  
  

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• My 3 Fish Limit was:
  1lb 11oz
  1lb 4oz
  14oz
  
  4 Shorts too
  
• brown/gold w/ red
• Brown/Gold w/ Red
• Stirke King KVD Sexy Shad Spinnerbait
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
• rooster tail
• Fast retrieve
• Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
  11-1/2" Short
  1lber culled
  Limit was:
  1-1/2lbs
  1lb 7oz
  1-1/4lbs
  1lb 1oz
  1lber

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Spro Frog
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• Strike King Rage Toad

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• All morning chain pickerel were hitting my plastic lures, but not taking any hooks. One did manage to bite my power worm in just the right spot however, and gave a nice fight. After that I threw a newly acquired Rapala Husky Jerk around, and got an even nicer pickerel in return! If anyone wants that lure, it's still there, stuck in a tree branch.
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• X-Rap
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• a lot of plastic worms work out.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 9in
  2. 10.5in
• 1st. 8in 6oz
  2nd. 5in
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner
• 6" and 8" on inline spinner
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• purple flake 6"
• sweat tater pie
• 4 Fish here caught on Senkos. 1 on LiveTarget Frog.
• assorted plastics and spinner bait top water frog
• 5" Senko Pumpkin Black flake
• 5" Senko Black Blue Flake
• Senko Pumpkin Black Flake
• Black Gary Yamamottos, 5" and Green Tailed YUM worms, 5"
• Gary Yamamoto Yums. Rubber worm with green tail.
• YUM worms

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• xps swimbait
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Storm Shad Minnow
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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
• Jerkbait
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
• Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
  The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
• 2-1/4lber was my best
  Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
• 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
  the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller
• All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
• 1-1/4lber was my best
  bunch of 1lbers and shorts
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Drop Shot
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake
• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead

Craw Check Prices

• yamamoto watermelon 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.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• crawdads and soft frogs
• Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
• Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster tail
• 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.
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Rooster Tail
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• First cast and I had one.

Jigs Check Prices

• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...
• jig n pig
• Our Limit was :
  My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz
  
  1lb and under on the rest
• 11" on Shaky Head
  15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

• Rapala Jointed crankbait
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Minnow
• 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
• Strike King Pro Series 1XS - Sexy Shad
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Rapala Original F-7 - Minnow
• X-rap Extreme - Yellow Perch
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Perch
• Bluegill Segmented Swimbait
• keep on crankin

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• 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
• !/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.
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 4"senko
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• texas rigged senko
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• Storm 2in Perch

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 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!
• regular silver spoon
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• just a small piece
  
• nice large nightcrawlers
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• Just had the crawler on the bottem. Had the hook about 1 foot above the sinker, so the sinker got the weeds instead of the hook.
• one huge cold nightcrawler

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

• Again corn, white bread work well..I make much of my own dough bait or order some mixes through Wacker Baits
• Sweet corn
• Many things keep coming along for the ride. Sweet corn flavored various ways,
  Feed corn heavy on molasses,
  Dat food milk based with heavy seed/forage
  
• scented maize and corn
• Dat food, feed corn were used. Dat food produced some but the real hitter of the day was a grits based pack bait ( see the bait tutorial in the forums or on www.blackstonecarp.com)
• Same as the other locations. Maple peas worked well for me here, corn, bread, boilies of various flavors.
• Dat Food Obsession
  Dat Food Tuttie
  Dat Food Omega
  Chick peas
  Pescaviva sweet corn
• Feed corn and Dat food boilies have become my baits of choice as well as staples in any trip.
  
  Molasses and fishy flavors seem to still work well, though strawberry has been more and more effective.
  
  
• Feed corn is a staple for our trips lately, though it was clearly out performed number wise by a cat food/grits/cream corn mix method-pack bait.
  
  The biggest fish of the session however was taken along the far left margins, with 2 pieces of feed corn on a sliding hair rig, with a size 6 hook.
• Maple peas were on the menu today. I chummed maize/peas/boilies/strawberry corn