Fishing near Southborough in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• weedless jig with worm
• Kivas from the Sud
  Senkos
• Yo Mama Senko
  The Big ones Gasoline Green
• 3 on dark green Senkos
  1 on a Popper
  1 on a Rattle Trap
• White Wooly Bugger
• Large topwater popper.
• jitterbug, yum worm..pumpkin
• Senko - watermelon blk flake
• Caught one on a 5" gray with purple fleck Yamamoto Senko immediately followed by another on a yellow & green crankbait.
• Pulling into the access point, I find this...

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Large and XL Shiners
• Large Minnows
• slug
• worm
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• White suckers
• Big Kiva
• Yellow Perch
• Big Shinner

Tube Check Prices

• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• minitube flourescent
• white tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• June Bug tube
• june bug tubes
• salt and pepper purple flake tube
• Chartreuse pepper flack tube

Creature Check Prices

• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz
• all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Gary Yamomoto Kreature, red and black, or green with black specks...on the top, twitched through the weeds, slime, or open water. Sometimes I let it sink to the bottom and twitch it slightly. The one that got away was of course, huge. I'm bummin'.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.

Minnow Check Prices

• 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.
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• 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.
• Medium shiner
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
• small minnows, pretty active

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Black jitter bug.
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Jitterbug
• Jitter Bug
• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
• Popper
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog

Lizard Check Prices

• 8" Pumpkinseed
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• 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.
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• Red/Red
• green w/ red fleck

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 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 - 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 - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas 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.
  
  
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  
• Green Popper Frog Fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• white and red tandem colorado
  long tail
• Green Bleeder
• Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf
• white skirt
• Spinner green bleeder
• rooster tail
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• 3/16oz Black Buzzbait
• Spinner white/green with silver/gold blades
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• 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
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Spro Frog
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser
• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• All 4 and 5 inch Bass
• 5in and 9in Bass
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  ***Two 4in, One 8in, one 8 1/2in
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  ***
  1st one was 8 1/2in 7oz
  2nd one was 8in 4oz
• 1st fish of the night
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/8 rooster tail.
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6 Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• Senko
• Both on Senko
  1st was 13-1/2in 14oz
  2nd was 17-1/2 2lb 6oz
• 1 on a senko
  1 on a rooster tail
• senko
• 4 LMB's caught on assorted 5" regular Senkos (Watermellon, Pumpkin, Bama Bug, and Baby Bass I think)
  1 LMB caught on a 4" Fat Ika Senko
• one 8in, and one 12-1/4in 1lb
• 1 on a Senko
  2 on a Popper
  4 on a BPS texas rigged worm
• 5" Baby Bass Senko
• 3 caught on weightless dark senkos with a 4/0 red worm hook
  2 caught with dark green Strike King worms on a 1/8oz weighted 3/0 worm hook
• Senko watermelon 5" worm (no flake) - two 12 inchers
  
  Zoom watermelon seed 6" lizard - 14 incher

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Dark Senkos wacky
• xps swimbait
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Storm Shad Minnow
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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.
• 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
• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• Crank and buzzbait
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• All between 6" & 9"
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• Drop Shot
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• My Best 5:
  Two 2lbers
  1-1/2lber
  1-1/4lber
  1lber
• pitching into the pads with a craw
• Jigs, Worms, Cranks
  Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
  Many shorts caught
• one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
• Shaky Head
• Dropshot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 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
• 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.
• 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub

Craw Check Prices

• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• crawdads and soft frogs
• 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
• 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.
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• 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
• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail
• rapala red ratalin rap
• Rapala Original Perch #7
• Rooster Tail
  Missed a 1lb+, came off a few feet from the dock
• Rosster Tail
• 13in on Chartuesse and Blood Spinnerbait
  8.5in on Rapala Original Perch #7

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• SPRO BBZ1
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.

Jigs Check Prices

• 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
• 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...

Crankbait Check Prices

• Lipless Strike King Red Eye Shad
• River2Sea Biggie Smalls yellow perch pattern
• Strike King Pro Series 4S - Sexy Shad
• Bait ball. From live target
• Baitball. Live target
• 1 on a shinner 1 on a senko and the big guy on a huge 7 inch crank bait while trolling
• Rapala Original F-7 - Minnow
• Bluegill Segmented Swimbait
• Rapala F-7 Original - Minnow
• rapala

Bass Jig Check Prices

• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
• 1st was 1lb 3oz
  2nd was 2lb 5oz
• One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  
• Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
• 1st was 17-1/2in 2lb-3/4lb
  3rd was 12-1/2in 3/4lb
• Couple of 1-1/2lbers, couple of 1lber, and a 1/2lber

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• Storm 2in Perch
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• texas rigged senko

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger

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
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• regular silver spoon
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• 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
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• nice large nightcrawlers
• just a small piece
  
• Kids materials
• live worm on float

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• rattler
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• 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
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
• chartruce and whit chatter bait

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.
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail
• Dough Ball

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

• rooster tail
• usually rubber worms
• Jigs, Craws, Swimbait, Dropshot, Chatterbait, Spinnerbait
  
  Two were 1-3/4lbs
  Five were 1-1/2lbs
  The rest were 1-1/4lbs and lower
• Berkley PowerBait
• SPINNER BAIT
• power bait
• power bait off bottom
• Big
  Dead
  Golden's
• Green Power Bait
• Corn and lots of it