Fishing near Norton in Bristol County, MA

Check Prices

• Worm
• shiners
• Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.
• Standard BPS Red/White 3" Popper and a purple/black spinner bait
• black worm
• senkos t rigged midnight flake
• we used wonder bread for the carp. and the bass were hitting spoons
• 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.
• Dat Food,
  Maple Peas,
  Chick Peas
• A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Shiner one foot below float.
• live shiners, 5-6 inches long
• porgy
• cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
• pogie chunk
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• Used live bait and also sanko.
• 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

Creature Check Prices

• 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'.
• Black and Blue as usual
• Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• 4in beaver bait black and blue
  1oz tungsten
• squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
• Flipping a laydown
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• baby brush hog (green pumpkin green 1/8 oz bullet head sinker
  
  palm tree green pumpkin green weight-less

Tube Check Prices

• texas rigged
• 8 lb line
  weightless
  3/0 hook
• tube dark...

Minnow Check Prices

• Caught by a friend on a shiner.
• Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
• Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• Shiners
• live shiners and senkos
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• live shiners medium size
• medium-sized shiner
• 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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Rapala Poppers
• Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
• top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
• same as bass bait
• 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
• fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
• throwing floating minnow under the docks along shore, pulling crappies and pickerel, 1 good size bass, 2+lbs but he got off the hook.
• pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.
• good ole fashioned jitter bug

Lizard Check Prices

• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• Red/Red

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• Sluggo
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• red 5" Senko
• 6" Senko (see pic for color)
  Rapala Floating Minnow
• 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
• Mann's Shadow
• 3 chain pickerel on a silver/white 1/8oz Strike King Mini-King spinnerbait - 1 largemouth bass on watermelon/red flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick(a Senko-type lure)
• fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades

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.
  
  

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• golden spinner
• 3/8 oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ nickel colorado blade
• neon green spinner bait
• neon green spinner bait from bass pro in clearance bin
• 1 keeper @ 1.36lbs, and 5 shorts
• uh, spinnerbait
• 3/8oz white Bass pro Shops spinnerbait w/ nickel double-willow blades
• wife catches bass #1 on 1/4oz colorado Booyah 'blue glimmer' spinnerbait, I got bass #2 on white 3/8oz BPS double willow spinnerbait
• caught 7 pickerel and 5 largemouth bass on the following lures: willow/colorado spinnerbait, Zoom Fluke in pearl, Strike King Shim-E-Stick in watermelon green/red flake, and a Stanley Ribbit frog
• 3 largemouth bass & 1 chain pickerel on a white 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye double-willow spinnerbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Strike King Rage Toad
• chartreuse SnagProof frog
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits
• Stanley Ribbit
• green scum frog
  
  yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
• Spro Frog
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad

Stick Bait Check Prices

• A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
• Jerkbait
• A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
• I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
• 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
• seinko 5" junebug purple
• slow action on jerkbait long pauses
• I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• silver/red inline spinner
  
  white/red spot jerk bait
• Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
• Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
• Panther Martin
• Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
• mepps agalia
• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
• Mepps Agila #1 silver.
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Worm Check Prices

• Senko
• Two 1-3/4lbers, Three 1-1/2lbs, and a 1lber
  
  Worms. Spinnerbait, and one on a rage frog
• 0range floating
• 10 inch
• i got 2 on a 4 inch yum and nicholas got 1 on a rapala. i did hook a 4 or 5 pounder on a spoon, only to have him snap my line about 5 feet from the boat. at least he looked that big.
  
  less than a half hour before i was telling nicholas how i could see my line had stretched and weakened from all the fish we were catching. and sure enough, finally hooked a nice one and....
• senko - black with blue flake
• senko early season , rats when the pads start to fill in.
• 5" Red/Black Senko
• red shad senko 6 inch
• green w/ red flake

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Storm Shad Minnow
• Small swim bait. Also my 12 year old son caught one on a shiner. From this and previous trips, seen some close to a pound in here. Pretty decent size for a perch.
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• xps swimbait
• Got 3 bass on shiners( including the biggest). 2 small ones on yum 5 in green pumpkin plastic worm. 5 bluegill on small lure too.
• Yum 5in green pumpkin worm. Also got 3 on shiners ( including the biggest). Got two small ones on yum. 3 bluegill on small lure too.
• Storm shad mullet color
• Green rattling to Zuri
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
• A mix of 6" to 1lb
• 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
  2 shorts, and 2 lost
• We keep 5 Bass total
  My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
• Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Worm, and Spinnerbait
  
  1.48lbs, and three 1lbers
  
  4 shorts
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
  Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber
  
  Also 2 shorts
• My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
  1-3/4lber
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  also a couple 1lbers, and a short
  
  Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait
• Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
• 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
• Lot's of baits today: topwater, dropshot, senko, spinnerbait, and shakey head.
  
  My limit was:
  1-1/2lber
  1lb 6oz
  1-1/4lber
  Two 1lbers
• Our 5 fish limit was
  2-1/4lbs (Fred)
  1lb 5oz (Fred)
  1lb 2oz (Me)
  two 1lb 1oz (Me)
  
  Many other between 3-/4 to 1lb
• Shakey Head, and Drop Shot
  My Keepers were:
  4lb 5oz
  1-1/2lbs
  Two 1lbers
  
  Paul had 3lber, 1-1/4lbs, a couple 1lbers
• My 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• strike king red craw texas rigged
  
  blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
• used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night
• 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.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• zoom bass love em super fluke
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
• Powerbait
• Black senko worm
• Rapala Original #7
• Black senko rubber worm
• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Rooster Tail
• bleeding hook rapala floater

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• Rapala Jerkbait
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

Jigs Check Prices

• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

• rebel ghost minnow - silver
• 4 inch rapala original floater - gold
• i had 10 (3 were 20+) and nicholas had 11. most were crankbaits, though i caught a couple on a rooster tail.
• Rapala DT-4, Perch
• perch rapala
• nicholas caught 15 and i got 4. all on rapalas
• tried a soft worm for a while, but got nothing. crankbaits and spoons work well on this pond.
• Rapala DT-4
• i had 29 and nicholas had 34. mostly rapalas, but they were hitting everything we put in the water. most were 10 / 11 inches. a few smaller, a couple bigger.
• nicholas had 11 and i had 4. all crankbaits. a couple were pretty big for sunfish.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 3/4lb on Jig
  two 10 inchers on drop shot
• Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
• Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
• flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• 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

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 5" and 6" Senko
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
• Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• Storm 2in Perch

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• regular silver spoon
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
• gold little cleo
• 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
• Golden 1/4 oz little cleo

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• nice large nightcrawlers
• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
• 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.
• Live night crawler on a drop shot.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.
• rattler

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• medium speed
• Red and white daredevil

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• zara spoof

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Berkley white grub with a tail.
• Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
• Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
• Berkley White Grub.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
• Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

• Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
• Pink Powerbait nuggets
• Black Spinner Bait
  
  
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• 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
• 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.
  
• 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.
• Just bread balls
• porgy snagger
• Powerbait
• uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.