Fishing near Worcester in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• big dead shiners, kayem red's hot dogs
• My favorite Carp Bait
  
  Power Bait for Rainbows
• Corn mmmmmmm
• Corn lots of it
• worms mid shiners and power bait
• We used feed corn and Dat food boilies in the flavor strawberry
• Dead Bait
• Senko
  Kivas
  Rubber Frog
• weighted tube
  Texas rigged craw
  spook
  wacky
• 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?

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Perfect size Kivas
• Shiinners
• Chung's Best
• Big Kiva
• White suckers
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• Yellow Perch
• Shinners
• Pike shinners, again
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

• large shiners on trokar hooks
• live bait old school
• Chung's Best
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies
• 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.
• fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• Kivas
  Shinners
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• Medium shiner

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.
• Jitterbug
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Jitter Bug
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Black jitter bug.

Lizard Check Prices

• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• 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
• 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 - Alewife
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout

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

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
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• 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.
• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• Jerk Bait
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• Rapala blue and white rattle

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
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1st. 8in 6oz
  2nd. 5in
• Rooster Tail
  1. 9in
  2. 10.5in
• Silver / Black Roostertail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• 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
• junebug w/blue fleck
• Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
  spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
• Green Bass Pro Tournament Series worm with red and blue flakes
• 7 " red shad powerbait
• Zoom Trick worm
  Color: South Africa Special
• Senko, Watermelon, Wacky-rigged

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• Dark Senkos wacky
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• xps swimbait
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl

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

• 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
• 1-1/4lber was my best
  bunch of 1lbers and shorts
• 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
  the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller
• All between 3/4lb 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
• 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers

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

Craw Check Prices

• crawdads and soft frogs
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• 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.
• 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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
• Rooster tail
• 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.
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• 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

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

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
  
• 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

• Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
• 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
• perch rapala - was surprised to get nothing on a soft worm.
• rapal
• perch rapala
• rapala
• KVD Rattling Square Bill
• Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
• 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

• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• brown
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• 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
• Crawfish style.
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger

Lake Pattern Check Prices

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!
• 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• just a small piece
  
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• 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
• 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.
• Greyish, green, red face

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• Pumpkin tail carolina style

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.

Other Check Prices

• White Bread
• 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
  1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
• Corn
  Lots of it
• Cheapest bait on the planet
• Corn Corn Corn Corn
• 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
• Green Power Bait
• Big
  Dead
  Golden's