Fishing near Shrewsbury in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• Corn lots of it
• My favorite Carp Bait
  
  Power Bait for Rainbows
• Corn mmmmmmm
• worms mid shiners and power bait
• Plastic worms
• 3" plastic minnow, bumped across the bottom.
• 3" plastic minnow, jerked and worked slowly.
• Tiki stick
• Tried to swallow a 3" plastic minnow, 12" down from bobber
• Jigs and Senkos

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Big Kiva
• White suckers
• Yellow Perch
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• Shinners
• Pike shinners, again
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• Big Shinner
• Perfect size Kivas

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• 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.
• fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
• Kivas
  Shinners
• Medium shiner
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• I found that using medium shiners with a bass hook hooked through the back of the tail worked best. The bait seems to stay much more lively that way.
• live bait old school
• Chung's Best
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.

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
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout

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

• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
• rooster tail
• Fast retrieve
• white and red tandem colorado
  long tail
• Spinner green bleeder
• brown/gold w/ red
• Brown/Gold w/ Red

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• 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.
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• yellow paddle tail frog. we saw a break in the water and knew there was a good fish. hit it a few times till he got him to take it.
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Spro Frog
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• 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.
• X-Rap
• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• pumkin stick bait, yumm

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
• 5in and 9in Bass
• All 4 and 5 inch Bass
• Silver / Black Roostertail
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Green Bass Pro Tournament Series worm with red and blue flakes
• 7 " red shad powerbait
• Zoom Trick worm
  Color: South Africa Special
• sencos texas rigged weedless with or without sliding bell weight
• powerbait red shad
• 5" Watermelon Semko worm
  
  4" Banjo minnow
• I worked the western shoreline for awhile, throwing around my usual rig. After feeling a few hit and runs, I eventually hooked up on a bass...that couldn't have weighed more than half a pound.
• Shakey Head
• Senko
• Wacky rigged senos in 5 inch lenght BkBl + GrPumpkin
  
  Bites only after it bottoms out, or popped off bottom after sitting 20-30 seconds.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Dark Senkos wacky
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• xps swimbait
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.

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
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.

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
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• 1-1/4lber was my best
  bunch of 1lbers and shorts
• Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
  The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
• 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
  the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller
• All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
• 2-1/4lber was my best
  Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
• 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm

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
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub

Craw Check Prices

• crawdads and soft frogs
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• 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.
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster tail
• Rooster Tail
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
• 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
  4 on Rooster Tail
• Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail
• 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.

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
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• perch rapala - was surprised to get nothing on a soft worm.
• rapala
• rapal
• perch rapala
• KVD Rattling Square Bill
• 1 on a shinner 1 on a senko and the big guy on a huge 7 inch crank bait while trolling
• Baitball. Live target
• Bait ball. From live target
• Strike King Pro Series 4S - Sexy Shad
• Bluegill Segmented Swimbait

Bass Jig Check Prices

• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• brown
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
• Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
• One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  
• 1st was 1lb 3oz
  2nd was 2lb 5oz
• pumpkin

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• texas rigged senko
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• 4"senko
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez
• 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.

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• silver spoon
• 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!
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• just a small piece
  
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• nice large nightcrawlers

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• rattler
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• Greyish, green, red face
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.

Other Check Prices

• Green Power Bait
• Creamy Corn
  Whole Kernel
• 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
• 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 Corn Corn Corn
• Corn
  Lots of it
• Big
  Dead
  Golden's
• usually rubber worms