Fishing near Oakham in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub
• Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
• 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
• 5 Keepers:
  2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  2 shorts
• shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
• big dead shiners, kayem red's hot dogs
• wacky worms and spinnerbaits
• smoke red flake senkos
• 6" Senkos
• Dead Bait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• 5 inch yellow perch
• 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
• Live Carwfish
• Big shiners
• Chung's Best
• Perfect size Kivas
• Shiinners
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• Shinners
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners

Tube Check Prices

• Chartreuse pepper flack tube
• june bug tubes
• salt and pepper purple flake tube
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• June Bug tube
• pumpkin seed tube
• june bug tube
• drop shots and topwater

Creature Check Prices

• They are called brush hogs, and manufactured by Zoom baits, sold at wal-mart.
• Carolina Rig
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish

Minnow Check Prices

• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• large shiners on trokar hooks
• you play the bait and bobber set up similar to the canal at the cape.I set the bait at about 24-27",sent it up curent and let it pass you reel it back and repeat.
• Chung's Best
• Med Shiners
  Wish we had gotten some larger ones
• fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
• live bait old school
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies
• Not sure exactly what kind of bait fish it was, since I found it wriggling at the water's edge - my guess is a shiner or shad.
• on bottom rigs and bobbers

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
• Live Target Brown Mouse
• Jitterbug
• Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• frogs, spinners, and buzz bait

Lizard Check Prices

• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Fast retrieve
• Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
• My 3 Fish Limit was:
  1lb 11oz
  1lb 4oz
  14oz
  
  4 Shorts too
  
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• 2lber on Spinnerbait
  10" on drop shot
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• 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

• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
• Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.
• Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
• Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Rapala blue and white rattle
• X-Rap
• 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.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• Blue Fox Inline Minow
• Rooster Tail
• Asortment of spinners.
• Silver / Black Roostertail
• 6" and 8" on inline spinner
• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner

Worm Check Prices

• Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
• Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
• junebug w/blue fleck
• Gary Yamamoto™®
  5inch Watermelon/Lemon
  The lighting changes ALOT from summer to Autumn--So I tried something new
• Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
  spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
• short plastic worm, slow pull/fall/sit retrieve
• 5" senko
• Senko, Watermelon, Wacky-rigged
• Senko, Watermelon, Weedless-rigged
• gary yatommotto senko black with siver flake.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• 6 inch light green senko
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky

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

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
• Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
• Surprised I only got one today!
• Spider Grubs, Crankbait, Jig, Senko, Spinnerbait.
  A couple at 11-1/2", most between 10"-11"
• They hit everything! Jigs, Spinnerbait, Senko, Spider Grub, Crankbaits
• 1-1/4lber was my best
  bunch of 1lbers and shorts
• All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
• 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
  the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller
• Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
  The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
• 2-1/4lber was my best
  Bunch 1lbers, and shorts

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead
• 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake
• Most were caught on a Trout Magnet . 1 on a Rapala and the other on aRooster Tail . Largest fish was the Last one caught . Trout magnet was the right bait to yse today.
• Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
• Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
• Rooster tail
• Gulp Alive
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head

Craw Check Prices

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  

Crankbait Check Prices

• shallow running crank bait minus one.
• X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
• kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
• 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
• many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
• perch rapala - was surprised to get nothing on a soft worm.
• rapal

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 4-1/4lb on a jig
  3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
  two 1lbers on buzzbait
  
• All on a swimjig
  
  My 9.75lb Limit was:
  2lbs 11oz
  2lbs 2oz
  2lbs 1oz
  1lb 8oz
  1lb 6oz
  
  5 more in the 1-1/4lb to 3/4lb range
• Crawfish style.
• brown
• 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
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez
• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
• 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• 4"senko
• texas rigged senko
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• KVD 5" Caffeine Shad - Light Blue with Silver belly.

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster
• 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!
• silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• just a small piece
  
• Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• silver&blue kastmaster

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

• Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
• Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
  Booyah Frog
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
  Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body
• Trout Magnet
• Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
  One Brook Trout and one Rainbow.
• Trout Magnet Jigs
• Trout Magnet Jig

Other Check Prices

• yellow rubber powerbait eggs
• Big
  Dead
  
• White Bread
• Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
• Corn Corn Corn Corn
• Corn
  Lots of it
• Cheapest bait on the planet
• 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
  1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
• Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel
  
  15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
  60lb Yellow Power Pro
  3/0 short shank red hook
• Corn and lots of it