Fishing near Paxton in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• big dead shiners, kayem red's hot dogs
• Corn mmmmmmm
• My favorite Carp Bait
  
  Power Bait for Rainbows
• Dead Bait
• Corn lots of it
• Senko
  Kivas
  Rubber Frog
• 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
• 5 Keepers:
  2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  2 shorts
• Both Lakers came from the same spot. PM me if you want details. In any case, they didn't seem to be hitting to far out from shore, maybe 20 yards or so?
• weighted tube
  Texas rigged craw
  spook
  wacky

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Chung's Best
• Perfect size Kivas
• 5 inch yellow perch
• Shiinners
• Big shiners
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• Big Kiva
• Shinners
• White suckers
• 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
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

• large shiners on trokar hooks
• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• Chung's Best
• 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.
• 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.
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• Kivas
  Shinners

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.
• Jitterbug
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Jitter Bug
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger

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
• 8" Pumpkinseed

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.
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go
• Sluggo
• I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding

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

• Fast retrieve
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• My 3 Fish Limit was:
  1lb 11oz
  1lb 4oz
  14oz
  
  4 Shorts too
  
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• 2lber on Spinnerbait
  10" on drop shot
• Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
• Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
  11-1/2" Short
  1lber culled
  Limit was:
  1-1/2lbs
  1lb 7oz
  1-1/4lbs
  1lb 1oz
  1lber
• Spinner green bleeder

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 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.
• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• X-Rap
• 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.
• Rapala blue and white rattle
• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz

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
• 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
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic

Worm Check Prices

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

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
• 6 inch light green senko

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
• 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
• 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.
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
• Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..

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
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head

Craw Check Prices

• crawdads and soft frogs

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

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
  
• 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

• shallow running crank bait minus one.
• Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
• kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
• perch rapala - was surprised to get nothing on a soft worm.
• rapal
• rapala
• perch rapala

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 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
• 4-1/4lb on a jig
  3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
  two 1lbers on buzzbait
  
• brown
• Crawfish style.
• 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
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez
• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• 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.
• texas rigged senko
• 4"senko
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 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
• 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• silver&blue kastmaster

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
• Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
  Booyah Frog

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• White Bread
• yellow rubber powerbait eggs
• Corn
  Lots of it
• Corn Corn Corn Corn
• 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
• Creamy Corn
  Whole Kernel
• Green Power Bait