Fishing near Rutland in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub
• wacky worms and spinnerbaits
• smoke red flake senkos
• big dead shiners, kayem red's hot dogs
• Green with gold belly swim bait.
• 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
• 3/4 Oz Blue and Silver Kastmaster
• BHB Jigs
  Senko
  Kivas
  Yellow candy
  Shinners
• Shinners
  
  Big Ones

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

• They are called brush hogs, and manufactured by Zoom baits, sold at wal-mart.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Carolina Rig

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.
• large shiners on trokar hooks
• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• 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
• Medium shiner
• Kivas
  Shinners
• Chung's Best
• live bait old school
• 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
• 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
• frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
• 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
• 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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Fast retrieve
• Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• red
• My 3 Fish Limit was:
  1lb 11oz
  1lb 4oz
  14oz
  
  4 Shorts too
  
• Spinner green bleeder
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
• 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, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart
• 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

• X-Rap
• Rapala blue and white rattle
• 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.
• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
• 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
• Rooster Tail
• 5in and 9in Bass
• All 4 and 5 inch Bass
• Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb

Worm Check Prices

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

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

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.
• 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..

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

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

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.
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
• Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
• X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
• Same as Bass 1
• Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
• 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
• perch rapala - was surprised to get nothing on a soft worm.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Crawfish style.
• brown
• 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
  
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• pumpkin
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot

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.
• 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.
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
• texas rigged senko
• 4"senko
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• just a small piece
  
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.

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

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

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
• White Bread
• Corn Corn Corn Corn
• Corn
  Lots of it
• Cheapest bait on the planet
• 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
• 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
  1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)