Fishing near Spencer in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
• 5 Keepers:
  2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  2 shorts
• shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
• Dead Bait
• Senko
  Kivas
  Rubber Frog
• big dead shiners, kayem red's hot dogs
• Corn mmmmmmm
• My favorite Carp Bait
  
  Power Bait for Rainbows
• Corn lots of it
• 4 " Senkos black blue flake drop shot and Road Kill Bass Pro style Senko. We tried many different colors and baits but most of our fish came on these two colors.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Chung's Best
• Big shiners
• Perfect size Kivas
• Shiinners
• Hand size Kivas
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• 5 inch yellow perch
• Live Carwfish
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• Big Kiva

Creature Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• large shiners on trokar hooks
• 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.
• Chung's Best
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies
• live bait old school
• Med Shiners
  Wish we had gotten some larger ones
• fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 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.
• Kivas
  Shinners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• 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

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

• Fast retrieve
• My 3 Fish Limit was:
  1lb 11oz
  1lb 4oz
  14oz
  
  4 Shorts too
  
• 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
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
• Brown/Gold w/ Red
• brown/gold w/ red

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
• 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.
• 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

• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• X-Rap
• Rapala blue and white rattle
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Worm Check Prices

• junebug w/blue fleck
• Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
• Gary Yamamoto™®
  5inch Watermelon/Lemon
  The lighting changes ALOT from summer to Autumn--So I tried something new
• short plastic worm, slow pull/fall/sit retrieve
• 5" senko
• 5" rattlesnake, red
• Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
  spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
• Senko
• Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
• Shakeyhead - 1-1/2lber, and 1-1/4ber

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• 6 inch light green senko
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms

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

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
• Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
• Surprised I only got one today!
• 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
• 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
• They hit everything! Jigs, Spinnerbait, Senko, Spider Grub, Crankbaits

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

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
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Gulp Alive

Craw Check Prices

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• 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
  

Crankbait Check Prices

• Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
• 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
• shallow running crank bait minus one.
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• crankbaits and spinners
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• Squarebill, and dropshot
• Booyah tiger
• perch rapala
• perch rapala - was surprised to get nothing on a soft worm.

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• 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.
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• 4"senko
• texas rigged senko
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• 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.
• Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
• 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

• just a small piece
  
• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• silver&blue kastmaster

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• Big
  Dead
  
• White Bread
• Inline Spinner, Dropshot
  one 6" and 4 other between 10" ans 11" Smallies
• 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
  1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
• Corn
  Lots of it
• Corn Corn Corn Corn
• 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
• Creamy Corn
  Whole Kernel
• Corn and lots of it