Fishing near Southbridge in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
• 5 Keepers:
  2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  2 shorts
• 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
• one 1-1/2 lber and 3 other all around a pound
• Tube
• nuts berries vegetation of all natures and LIVE GAME !
• Senko
  Kivas
  Rubber Frog
• Dead Bait
• shiners nightcrawlers and meal worms
• White Nichols spinnerbait w/ white grub trailer

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Hand size Kivas
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Big shiners
• Chung's Best
• Shiinners
• Perfect size Kivas
• Medium sized Frog
• Live Carwfish
• Medium to small sized frogs seem to work the best but ive even caught pike and largemouth off of a full grown frog sink em or let em swim on top either way works very effectivly

Creature Check Prices

• Carolina Rig
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• zoom brush hawg pumpkin

Tube Check Prices

• drop shots and topwater

Minnow Check Prices

• Med Shiners
  Wish we had gotten some larger ones
• We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
• 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.
• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies
• Chung's Best
• live bait old school
• big dead goldies
• large shiners on trokar hooks
• mediums

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
• see Damon for detailz
  Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
• Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass
  
  
• Jitterbug
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Popper

Lizard Check Prices

• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

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.

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

• 2lber on Spinnerbait
  10" on drop shot
• Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
  11-1/2" Short
  1lber culled
  Limit was:
  1-1/2lbs
  1lb 7oz
  1-1/4lbs
  1lb 1oz
  1lber
• Fast retrieve
• My 3 Fish Limit was:
  1lb 11oz
  1lb 4oz
  14oz
  
  4 Shorts too
  
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• others at this pond using gold fish,trout bait and worms

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 6" and 8" on inline spinner
• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner
• Rooster Tail
• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• Blue Fox Inline Minow

Nymph Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
• Yamamoto sinkos
• Senko
• Shakeyhead - 1-1/2lber, and 1-1/4ber
• using 6" senko green pumpkin
• green pumpkin senko
• using a salt shaker worm on a jig head. 6 fish were bass.
  My son caught a pickerel when he was cranking the worm through the water.
• Shakey Head
  My Biggest 2 Largemouth of the day were 2lbs 5oz, and 1lb 14oz - Most of the others were in the 1-1/4lb to 1-1/2lb range
• Shakey Head
  Both Smallies were 1lb

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• 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

• Drop shot
• Surprised I only got one today!
• Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
• 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
• Dropshot
• 11" Drop Shot
  11-3/4" Carolina Rig
• Drop Shot, and Shakey Head
• Drop Shot
• 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
• All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
• 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..
• 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.
• 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake
• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
• Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
• Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Rooster tail
• Gulp Alive

Craw Check Prices

• yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• First cast and I had one.
• 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
  

Crankbait Check Prices

• Booyah tiger
• crankbaits and spinners
• Squarebill, and dropshot
• Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
• 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
• Rapala Jointed crankbait
• perch rapala
• perch rapala - was surprised to get nothing on a soft worm.
• rapal
• rapala

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
• 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
  
• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• 4"senko
• texas rigged senko
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez
• Corn Yellow Powerbait

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Just had the crawler on the bottem. Had the hook about 1 foot above the sinker, so the sinker got the weeds instead of the hook.
• just a small piece
  
• Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• powerbait yellow
• Big
  Dead
  
• Inline Spinner, Dropshot
  one 6" and 4 other between 10" ans 11" Smallies
• White Bread
• Big
  Dead
  Golden's
• Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
• 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
  1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
• Maize has been my bait of choice, followed closely by maple peas and an oat based pack bait.
  
  Molasses and maple have been strong producing flavors for me this early on..latter this will change to more fruit and maybe even a fish/blood as the water warms.
• Bait for carp: (which are the only fish I am coun ting for here)
  Chum the night before with a mix of Maize and oat/bran/grits method/ground bait
  
  Hook bait was maize on a hair with tutty-fruity or molasses glug, or maize or corn-pops on the hook with a oat/bran/grits pack bait
  
  Bait for sunnies/bluegills/etc:
  Meal worms, canned corn, bread
  
  Many were caught as part of the event but I did not keep a tally.
  
• Our bucket contained once again
  feed corn, maple peas, dat food and chick peas.
  
  Sadly on this outing nothing really produced with a few Crucian carp grabbing anything they could.