Fishing near Southwick in Hampden County, MA

Check Prices

• 1/4 oz carolina lizard
• Chartreuse spinner bait
• mixed color senkos
• rubber grub
• if you know stripers then you should know what bait
• a good choice of bait for highland lake is shiners down about 13 feet with a weight to keep them down or nightcrawler allways work good too!!
• spinner baits or buzz baits or small rapalas work very good here. live shiners hooked through the nose casted and retreved with a small split shot 6 inch in front of it works good too
• my bait of choice for deep bass fishing in this spot is bouncing crawdads off the bottom or carolina rigged pumpkin seed power bait worms
• Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
• Bluegill

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Nightcrallers & worms
• eel
• They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
• Meal worm
  Lures
  Powerbait
• They are biting sand worms and blood worms

Minnow Check Prices

• Drifting with a live minnow
• Drifting with live minnows
• large shinners with a bobber
• same old
• used smalls up to mommalukes.
• medium size minnow on waited bobber.
• small size minnow

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Lunker city Salad Spoon
• Popper, Color Gold and black
• Popper
• Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass
  
  
• Rubber frog
• Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
• Live Target Brown Mouse

Lizard Check Prices

• 1/4 oz c rig lizard
• 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• White 3/8 Strike King
• White Rooster Tail
• White rooster tail
• Phoebe and Rooster Tail
• spinnerbait , plastic worms

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water

Streamer Check Prices

• Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
• Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
• 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
• Rapala Original
• Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
• White and Red stick bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• meppes
• white tailed
• rooster tail
• black Rooster tail
• little rooster
• blue fox
• Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

• test
• Bait Details
• blue winged olive

Nymph Check Prices

• PT
• Copper John

Worm Check Prices

• senko
• Yamamotos Senko...green
  no luck on spinners and cranks
• Senkos and Tiger/perch cranks
• 4 inch Green Pumpkin Yamamoto Senco
• yum dinger watermelon
• watermelon yum dinger
• watermelon seed yum dinger
• black senko
• spoom work well to.
• June Bug colored zoom worms

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Senco stretch 40
• jig heads / swim tails
• SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD
• jig heads and swim baits

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 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

• litle plastic minnows
• Gulp Alive
• Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
• Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!
• Kastmaster
• small swimming minnow soft bait

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• ratl trap
• bbz-1 shad blue back herring color

Crankbait Check Prices

• yellow dancin eel
• nofish but I know they're here sometimes
• spinner bait
  yamos
  crankbaits
• just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
• rattletrap
• Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
• spook
• spooks
• Caught on a Rapala Crankbait from Cabelas.
• booya crankbaits brown and green

Bass Jig Check Prices

• white and blue,fishing mud line
• Used Jigs, and yam's missed a lot of fish and caught a lot.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• white paddle tail
• yellow
• weighted Sluggo
• fin-s

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Trout worn with a single split shop weight
• peice of nightcrawler on a hook
• just night crawlers on small hooks
• little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
• Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
• One caught on a crawler , one caught on a live minnow
• caught a 3.1/2lb'er on an inch of worm.
• ok i have caught fish here with everything lures, shiners, night crawlers and i have even caught LMB with sunfish that i had caught on the worm initially. In fact when i realized that a huge bass was hitting my sunfish and the hook was too small to catch it, i rigged a bigger hook threw the fish back out and pulled in a 5-7lb bass. It was the 5th fat bass for summer 2009
• Red Eye bass will hit alot of the time in most of the coves and downed trees
• caught sun fish after about 10 am. 1 small perch about 6in. fishing has been slow so far this season.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• red craw by bill lewis
• clacking rap

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• 2 inch, color gold and white

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish
• purple rooster tail & live minnows

Grub Check Prices

• Orange color grub.

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• bucktail jig with a Gulp! trailer

Live Baits Check Prices

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• purple

Other Check Prices

• We use #2 hooks with leaders and tie them to our line
  A 3 oz weight to hold it on the bottom
• YELLOW GRUB
  WEIGHTS
  BIG HOOKS
• Chicken Liver
• rainbow or green powerbait
• Garlic
  Garlic with Corn
• Corn and Garlic
• Powerbait rainbow
• Candy
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• Rainbow Powerbait
• hot dog dipped in Anise oil