Fishing near Princeton in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• Green with gold belly swim bait.
• smoke red flake senkos
• wacky worms and spinnerbaits
• Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub
• Shinners
  
  Big Ones
• Big ass shiners
• 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?
• 3/4 Oz Blue and Silver Kastmaster
• Goliath size perch
• 3/4 Ounce Blue and Silver Kastmaster

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• 5 inch yellow perch
• Shinners
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• Pike shinners, again
• Yellow Perch
• Big Shinner
• Big Kiva
• White suckers
• 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......

Tube Check Prices

• june bug tube
• pumpkin seed tube
• Chartreuse pepper flack tube
• salt and pepper purple flake tube
• june bug tubes
• June Bug tube
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• minitube flourescent
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms

Creature Check Prices

• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz
• They are called brush hogs, and manufactured by Zoom baits, sold at wal-mart.

Minnow Check Prices

• fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• Medium shiner
• Kivas
  Shinners
• 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.
• large shiners on trokar hooks
• actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
• pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• Chung's Best

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• 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
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• Sluggo
• I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
• red
• Fast retrieve
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• strike king 3/8 oz spinner
• Spinner green bleeder
• 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
• Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf

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.
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
• Swimming the frog through the pads
• Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart
• Ribbit frog

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• X-Rap
• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
• 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.
• 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

• Asortment of spinners.
• Blue Fox Inline Minow
• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• Silver / Black Roostertail
• Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
• All 4 and 5 inch Bass
• 5in and 9in Bass
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8in Rooster Tail

Worm Check Prices

• Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
  spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
• Senko, Watermelon, Wacky-rigged
• Senko, Watermelon, Weedless-rigged
• Red Senko took it on the fall on the fall
• Gary Yamamoto™®
  5inch Watermelon/Lemon
  The lighting changes ALOT from summer to Autumn--So I tried something new
• Black or brown body with Chartreuse tail
• senko
• gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
• Black or Brown with Chartreuse tail
• Black or Brown body with Chartreuse tail

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 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
• Senko and Dropshot
• Dropshot
• 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
• My Best 5:
  Two 2lbers
  1-1/2lber
  1-1/4lber
  1lber
• Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
• Surprised I only got one today!
• Drop Shot
• pitching into the pads with a craw

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.

Craw Check Prices

• 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

• senkos
• 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
  
• Rooster tail
• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit

Jigs Check Prices

• 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
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• 11" on Shaky Head
  15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

• shallow running crank bait minus one.
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
• Same as Bass 1
• Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
• Same details as Bass 1
• rapala wounded minnow
• many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
• 1 on a shinner 1 on a senko and the big guy on a huge 7 inch crank bait while trolling

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Crawfish style.
• brown
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• pumpkin
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
• 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
  
• rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
• One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 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.
• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
• KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
• Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
• texas rigged senko

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

• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• just a small piece
  
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• Neon green 2-way spinner hook.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• Greyish, green, red face
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'

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
• Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
  Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

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