Fishing near Norwood in Norfolk County, MA

Check Prices

• senkos blk/blu flake
• buzzbait and slug
• Rubber worms, swimbaits
• Yum 5" senko type worm and Yum 3.5" craw papi.
• weedless yamamaoto bright green crayfish with a squid-like skirt on the front.
• Fat body rubber craw, watermelon candy color
• Little Cleo Spoon in Copper and Silver
• shiner
• Bacon on the bottom. 1 ounce sinker.
• white spinner bait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• worm
• slug
• Shiner one foot below float.
• cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• 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.
• SEAWORMS

Creature Check Prices

• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• 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'.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
• Black and Blue as usual
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
• Colorful Grub and a Pitboss

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• 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
• shiners
• medium-sized shiner
• shiner
• Dead minnows
• Caught by a friend on a shiner.
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• Purple Flash Popper
• basic top water pencil popper type lure.
• Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
• topwater and worms
• Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
• 3.5inch Jitterbug (arbogast)
• 3inch Black Jitterbug
• Black Jitterbug
• Jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

• Red/Red
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• green w/ red fleck
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• baby bass berkley slug
• red 5" Senko
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• Sluggo
• 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
• 6" on inline spinner
  3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
• 1st was 13" 1lb
  2nd was 6"
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

• Fishing rocks and open water
• Mostly caught on shore line with a spinner bait or buzz bait
• Fishing shore line
• Fishing tree lines
• white spinner bait with white curly tail grub
• my dads was on an S.K spinnerbait.
  the one I lost was on a KVD swim jig
• single coloroado # 5, blue w/red speckle skirt.3/8oz
• Rebel Buzz'n Frog
• Arbogast Jitterbug and Rebel Buzz'n Frog
• using a curly tailed soft bait on the jig hook - slow to moderate retrieve, just enough to keep the spinners going and the bait a foot below the surface.

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Spro Frog
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Strike King Rage Toad
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• 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
• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
• rapala
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• mepps agalia
• Panther Martin
• Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• Gold spinner
• Rooster Tail
• #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.
• 1/8 oz. Rooster Tail
• rooster tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Zoom Finese Worm(Brown) on Shaky Head
• Zoom watermelon seed. Had a little luck with the finese worm but found that larry was bitting the fat centipede sized one more.
• Gary Yamamoto senko
  black w large blue flakes
• GY senko rootbeer
• black blue fleck senko
• green pumkin senko
• Senko - black with blue flakes
• Pumpkinseed Senko, Watermelon Senko
• Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Yamosenko rigged Texas.
• Senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Storm Shad Minnow
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• 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
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Storm shad mullet color
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• 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

Soft Baits Check Prices

• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
• Dropshot
• Drop Shot
• 1 Keeper barely 12"
  The rest were in the 8"-11"range
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
• Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
  1st was a little over a 1lb
  2nd was 12"
  3rd was 2lbs 2oz
• 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
  The rest were in the 8"-11" range
• 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)
  
  

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

• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Powerbait
• Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
• Rapala Original #7
• Rooster Tail
• zoom bass love em super fluke
• bleeding hook rapala floater
• Rapala F-5 Original
• I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
  Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait
• Rapala F-7 Original Silver

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
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• 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
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• Rapala Jerkbait
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
• SPRO BBZ1

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

• - White (Bass Pro)
  
  - Yellow and gold, shiny, resembles a Yellow Perch (Bass Pro).
• switched between crankbaits and yums. only crankbaits working today.
• 3 nice calicos. all on rapalas
• Strike King KVD Shad/Purple Square Bill Shallow Running Crankbait (Not exact name)
• slow slow slow presentation
• was slowly fishing a deep crank that floats letting it float to top after each crank then BANG these little suckers came right up on it
• j9 black/gold
• Most fish caught on a j9 bronze color but did get a few on soft plastics and the biggest on a hollow body swim-bait.
• shallow crank square almost matching bass color
• kept hitting the crankbait right on of the cast just as i started retirieve.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 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
• Strike King Bass Jig
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• manns stone 3/8 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
• Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
• flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight

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
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• Storm 2in Perch
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Only keeper was just over a pound

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger
• Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• regular silver spoon
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• gold little cleo
• Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
• 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
• Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• rattler
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• 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
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• Greyish, green, red face
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• nice large nightcrawlers
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• live worm on float
• Kids materials

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

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
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Dropshotting
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• Berkley white grub with a tail.
• Berkley White Grub.

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
• Powerbait
• Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
• Sweetcorn
• White Berkely Honey worm
• Power bait
• Yellow power eggs
• yellow power eggs
• yellow power bait