Fishing near Ashby in Middlesex County, MA

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• fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
• Look for the ramp, it a little one!
• plastics
• Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters
• senko
• Green with gold belly swim bait.
• smoke red flake senkos
• wacky worms and spinnerbaits
• texes rigged senko
• Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Bobber & Shiner.
• 5 inch yellow perch
• Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
• 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
• Big Shinner
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners
• Shinners
• Pike shinners, again
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters

Creature Check Prices

• 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

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

Minnow Check Prices

• pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
• actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
• 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.
• Large shiners
• Shine on and dropped.
• 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.
• We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
• jitterbug
• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
• red
• strike king 3/8 oz spinner

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.
• Swimming the frog through the pads
• Ribbit frog
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage

Stick Bait Check Prices

• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
• X-Rap

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
• Asortment of spinners.
• 1/4 ounce
• Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
• Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
• Blue Fox Inline Minow
• Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
• Silver / Black Roostertail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• senko
• gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
• Black or Brown body with Chartreuse tail
• Black or Brown with Chartreuse tail
• Black or brown body with Chartreuse tail
• "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  
• purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
• Red Senko took it on the fall on the fall
• Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
• Sadly my only Bass of the day, and it was to small

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"

Soft Baits Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
• senkos
• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook & trout worm.
• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked
• Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
• Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.

Craw Check Prices

• 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.

Crankbait Check Prices

• Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
• Same details as Bass 1
• shallow running crank baits
• Same as Bass 1
• many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
• Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
• shallow running crank bait minus one.
• rapala wounded minnow
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5
• Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Crawfish style.
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• brown
• pumpkin
• Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
• 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
• KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
• 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.
• KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddletail Swimbait
• KVD 5" Caffeine Shad - Light Blue with Silver belly.
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
• white
• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez

Wet Fly Check Prices

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!

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Sherbert (Pink & Orange Glitter) Powerbait.
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Brass 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• silver&blue kastmaster

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

• 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

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Other Check Prices

• 2 fish were caught with a Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook and worm.
  One was caught on a #6 hook and floating orange Powerbait "Trout Nibbles".
  All were caught mid-water, on the retrieve.
• yellow rubber powerbait eggs
• Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
• Rainbow PowerBait. Trout Formula.
• My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
• We had many things on hand, oatmeal, boilies, chick peas, feed corn, birdseed and grits based pack/method mixes, dog food, maple peas...
  
  In the end most fish were caught on Chick peas, followed by Dat food (strawberry) with one on Simon's pineapple birdseed "cake" boilie.
• Feed corn and dat food were on the menu. We also tried chick peas, canned corn, luncheon meat, a coupld of pack/dough baits.
  
  We chummed a mix or bread crumb, hemp meal, pineapple soda and other such ingredients.