Fishing near Upton in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• bk/bl spidergrub
• Senko- watermelon and purple flake
• Jitterbug the whole time. I had a 9 inch swim bait on board but there was no need to bust it out due to the action I was getting on the jitter!
• wacky senkos bk/bl & watermelon
• wacky bk/bl senko
• Drop Shot
• Drop shot w/new bait.
  (I'll Tell ya later)
• Drop Shot - Sluggo
• Texas rigged super fluke baby bass
• Senko - watermelon blk flake

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Medium sized Frog
• 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
• slug
• Shiinners
• Perfect size Kivas
• worm
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Hand size Kivas
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

• Carolina Rig
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• 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 Super Hog - Candy color

Minnow Check Prices

• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• 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.
• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• medeim to large shiners and never thought nightcrawlers would work through the ice but i ended up with a crappie and a perch while jigging one just waitin for my flags
• live bait old school
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies
• shiner
• Chung's Best

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

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
  

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• brown/gold w/ red
• Brown/Gold w/ Red
• Stirke King KVD Sexy Shad Spinnerbait
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
• Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
• Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
• rooster tail
• Yellow green spinnerbaits
• Strike King® KVD Spinnerbaits - Double Willow Color Sexy Shad
• Spinner white/green with silver/gold blades

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Spro Frog
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• 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.
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Strike King Rage Toad
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• 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
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• X-Rap
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• pumkin stick bait, yumm

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 9in
  2. 10.5in
• 1st. 8in 6oz
  2nd. 5in
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 5in and 9in Bass
• All 4 and 5 inch Bass

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• 4 Fish here caught on Senkos. 1 on LiveTarget Frog.
• purple flake 6"
• sweat tater pie
• 5" Senko Black Blue Flake
• 5" Senko Pumpkin Black flake
• Senko Pumpkin Black Flake
• Gary Yamamoto Yums. Rubber worm with green tail.
• Black Gary Yamamottos, 5" and Green Tailed YUM worms, 5"
• YUM worms
• 5" Black Gary Yamamottos, and 5"Green Tailed YUM worms,

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Dark Senkos wacky
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• xps swimbait
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Storm Shad Minnow
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season

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
• 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.
• 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
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Drop Shot
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• They hit everything! Jigs, Spinnerbait, Senko, Spider Grub, Crankbaits
• Spider Grubs, Crankbait, Jig, Senko, Spinnerbait.
  A couple at 11-1/2", most between 10"-11"
• 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
• Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
  The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
• 2-1/4lber was my best
  Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
• 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
  the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• 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
• 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.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Rooster tail
• 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 Original #7
• I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
  Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait
• Rapala F-5 Original

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

Jigs Check Prices

• 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...
• 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

Crankbait Check Prices

• Rapala Jointed crankbait
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Minnow
• Strike King Pro Series 1XS - Sexy Shad
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Rapala Original F-7 - Minnow
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Perch
• X-rap Extreme - Yellow Perch
• Bluegill Segmented Swimbait
• keep on crankin
• did not change my lure all day

Bass Jig Check Prices

• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• 1st was 17-1/2in 2lb-3/4lb
  3rd was 12-1/2in 3/4lb
• Threw a black on black 1/4 jig and #11 pork frog in the trees and a Koppers live target frog in the scum and pads
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• texas rigged senko
• 4"senko
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
• Storm 2in Perch
• 3 keepers, one was culled

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
• regular silver spoon
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• just a small piece
  
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• nice large nightcrawlers
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• Kids materials

Blade Bait Check Prices

• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

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

• power bait off bottom
• power bait
• Again corn, white bread work well..I make much of my own dough bait or order some mixes through Wacker Baits
• Sweet corn
• Same as the other locations. Maple peas worked well for me here, corn, bread, boilies of various flavors.
• Dat food, feed corn were used. Dat food produced some but the real hitter of the day was a grits based pack bait ( see the bait tutorial in the forums or on www.blackstonecarp.com)
• Many things keep coming along for the ride. Sweet corn flavored various ways,
  Feed corn heavy on molasses,
  Dat food milk based with heavy seed/forage
  
• Dat Food Obsession
  Dat Food Tuttie
  Dat Food Omega
  Chick peas
  Pescaviva sweet corn
• scented maize and corn
• Feed corn and Dat food boilies have become my baits of choice as well as staples in any trip.
  
  Molasses and fishy flavors seem to still work well, though strawberry has been more and more effective.