Fishing near Sterling in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• Shinners
  
  Big Ones
• 1.5 KVD Crankbait, Yamamoto 4.5 inch Pumpkin Grub, Spinnerbait, Swim Baits, Rubber Worms.
• Big ass shiners
• Goliath size perch
• 3/4 Ounce Blue and Silver Kastmaster
• BHB Jigs
  Senko
  Kivas
  Yellow candy
  Shinners
• 3/4 Oz Blue and Silver Kastmaster
• Both Lakers came from the same spot. PM me if you want details. In any case, they didn't seem to be hitting to far out from shore, maybe 20 yards or so?
• weighted tube
  Texas rigged craw
  spook
  wacky
• Green with gold belly swim bait.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Shinners
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners
• Pike shinners, again
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• Big Shinner
• Yellow Perch
• White suckers
• Big Kiva
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• 5 inch yellow perch

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• 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

Minnow Check Prices

• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• Medium shiner
• Kivas
  Shinners
• 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.
• actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• large shiners on trokar hooks
• live bait old school
• Chung's Best

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin

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.
• 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
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• red
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
• strike king 3/8 oz spinner
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
• Spinner green bleeder
• Spinnerbait
• Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 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.
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• Ribbit frog
• 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.
• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Blue Fox Inline Minow
• firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
• Silver / Black Roostertail
• Asortment of spinners.
• All 4 and 5 inch Bass
• 5in and 9in Bass
• Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8in Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
  spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
• Senko, Watermelon, Wacky-rigged
• Senko, Watermelon, Weedless-rigged
• Red Senko took it on the fall on the fall
• 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.
• Wacky rigged senos in 5 inch lenght BkBl + GrPumpkin
  
  Bites only after it bottoms out, or popped off bottom after sitting 20-30 seconds.
• Shakey Head
• senko into cover
• Senko
• 6" Yamamoto Senko black/pink worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• xps swimbait

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

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
• My Best 5:
  Two 2lbers
  1-1/2lber
  1-1/4lber
  1lber
• Drop Shot
• 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
• Senko and Dropshot
• Dropshot

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.

Craw Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• senkos
• 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
• Blue Fox Vibrax series
• rapala red ratalin rap
• Bluegill flash 5 inch super fluke
  Bluegill chatterbait with a watermelon pearl lft swimbait
  1/4 ounce blk/blu booyah baby boo jig with a black yum craw papi
  2 inch baby bass bps grub
• Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit

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
• 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

• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
• Same as Bass 1
• Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
• Same details as Bass 1
• rapala wounded minnow
• shallow running crank bait minus one.
• 1 on a shinner 1 on a senko and the big guy on a huge 7 inch crank bait while trolling
• Baitball. Live target

Bass Jig Check Prices

• brown
• Crawfish style.
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• pumpkin
• Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
• One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  
• 1st was 1lb 3oz
  2nd was 2lb 5oz
• 3lb 4oz
  A couple 3lbers
  A couple 2-3/4blers
  Half a dozen 2-1/2lbers
  A dozen 2lbers
  ...so many fish! I lost count!

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

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!
• silver spoon
• 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• just a small piece
  
• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
• worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• Greyish, green, red face
• 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.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
• Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
  Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait
• Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
  Booyah Frog
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• Corn and lots of it
• Green Power Bait
• Creamy Corn
  Whole Kernel
• Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel
  
  15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
  60lb Yellow Power Pro
  3/0 short shank red hook
• Corn Corn Corn Corn
• Cheapest bait on the planet
• Corn
  Lots of it
• 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
  1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
• White Bread
• yellow rubber powerbait eggs