Fishing near Mattapoisett in Plymouth County, MA

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• Ultra light mitchell spidercast reel combo 4lb test, fun fun fun. when the bass aren't hitting
• We used live shiners, 3-4 inch, and any lure you can think of. They crush anything at this place...HUNGRY fish...
• Watermelon red/gold flake Texas
• Drop Shot
  1st was 11-1/2"
  2nd was 6"
• frogs
• Drop Shot
• Worm
• i used pogy
• Senko. Purple with purple flake
• Senko purple with purple flake.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• sandworms
• Used some Medium Shinners
• eels on the bottom
• Shiners on a bobber
• wroms
• Used live bait and also sanko.
• green crabs
• We used worms to catch smaller fish cast them out and brought them back in slowly
• greencrabs
• Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!

Creature Check Prices

• You already know
• Flipping a laydown
• Green pumpkin Brush Hog
  5" wacky rigged green pumpkin stick bait (senko knockoff)
• Berkley Pit Boss in Junebug, Green Pumpkin and Black / Blue
• texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines
• HIT IT ON A PALM TREE MADE BY KINAMI BAITS
• palm tree red skirt black trunck
• using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
• baby brush hog (green pumpkin green 1/8 oz bullet head sinker
  
  palm tree green pumpkin green weight-less
• Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Tube Check Prices

• 1 Keeper:
  1-1/4lbs
  
  1 Short
• 2 Keepers:
  1.79lbs
  1lb
  
  2 shorts

Minnow Check Prices

• mumpers
• Large (heavies) shiners
• shiners hooked behind the dorsal fin with a #2 circle hook on about 30in. leader of 20# flurocarbon.
• Shiner live lining.
• Shiners, 3-4 inch
• Live minnow under a float

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
• fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
• same as bass bait
• top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top

Lizard Check Prices

• slow dragged threw beds
  
  also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie
• watermelon zoom brush hog jr. on carolina rig w 1/2 oz worm weight
• 5 inch watermelon red zoom lizard downsized carolina rig
• Downsized carolina 1/4 oz weigth w5 inch watermelon red zoom lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• berkley slug baby bass color
• pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear
• This Big Bastard Stole My Lure!
• 5 between 3" and 11"
• Shad colored 5" Senko
• fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades
• 3 chain pickerel on a silver/white 1/8oz Strike King Mini-King spinnerbait - 1 largemouth bass on watermelon/red flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick(a Senko-type lure)
• Mann's Shadow
• 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
• 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait, white skirt, double-willow blades
• white, double-nickel willow blades, 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait
• Mepps Agila inline spinner silver and red #1.
• Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
• 1/4oz chartreuse/lime spinnerbait w/ colorado/willow twin nickel blades
• 1/4oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ #4 nickel colorado blade
• chartreuse 3/8 oz spinnerbait/w tandem chartreuse willowleaf blades. a chrome silver excalibur lipless crankbait. a heddon black bullfrog "crazy crawler". and strike king rage tail crawfish in dirty craw color.
• Barbie color spinnerbait cranking from out from shore line. This fish hit in about 10 ft of water had a couple of more followers but that was it. Then the winds and rain picked up and it was tuff fishing from there on in .My boater caught a nice one about 4 hrs later with a crank bait and that was it on the hits fished many of the same spots as Micahel K draging jigs and tubes not a bite. big fish of the day was 6+ large mouth and a 5+ smallie
• STRIKE KING SPINNER
• Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2.

Frog Bait Check Prices

• largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
• Paycheck Baits "Transporter
• green scum frog
• Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits
• Stanley Ribbit

Squid Check Prices

• i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits

Stick Bait Check Prices

• 4" huskey jerk bait greenw/orange bottom
• Ima Flit 100 Chartreuse Shad
  
• 4in senkos in various colors
• Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Golden Shiner pattern.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
• Trolling or tossing in-line spinners. Powerbait mello's
• Joes fly
• All in between 6 an 10 inches
• 7 and 8 inches
• My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol
• Panther Martin spinner
• Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
• Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Strike King Shim-E-Stick(like a Senko) in watermelon green with black/red flake
• Yamasenko Watermelon Tube Worm
• Berkley 7" Black Shad
  Berkley 7" Tequila Sunrise
• 8 inchWatermelon senko w/ red hook
• Wacky Style
• Used a watermelon/gold fleck senko worm, rooster tail, and popper
• Texas rigged Berkley Gulp 4" crawler.
• wacky style pumpkin
• brown senko with chartuese tail
• 5" senko worm, wacky style

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Green rattling to Zuri
• Yum 5in green pumpkin worm. Also got 3 on shiners ( including the biggest). Got two small ones on yum. 3 bluegill on small lure too.
• Got 3 bass on shiners( including the biggest). 2 small ones on yum 5 in green pumpkin plastic worm. 5 bluegill on small lure too.

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.
• Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.
• We keep 5 Bass total
  My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
• Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
• Bladed baits

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 3 healthy Pickerel
• 3 shorts
• Paul had a 3.90lb, 2-3/4lber, 2lber, 1-3/4lber, and two 1lbers
  
  I had a 1-1/2lber, and a 1lber
• Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
• My big fish was 2.03lbs, also a 1-1/4lber, and a 1lber
• My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
  Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber
  
  Also 2 shorts
• My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
  1-3/4lber
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  also a couple 1lbers, and a short
  
  Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait
• My limit was:
  2.30lbs
  Three 1lbers
  13oz
  
  
• 1st was 3.72lb Tourney Lunker
  Other two were 1-1/2lbs each
• Only one keeper out of the 5 I caught and in was 12" 3/4lbs

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• trolling a white unbrella rig from island to the red bouy. while trolling i threw medium size stick crank baits off the side and hooked up. i would make sure your hooks are strong we had a few straighten out and loss the fish
• GOOD OLD SENKO

Craw Check Prices

• used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• strike king red craw texas rigged
  
  blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

• deceivers,silversides,sand eel paterns

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• yo-zuri crystal minnow
• Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait
• 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
• 7" dark trout 2x slammer
• Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".

Jigs Check Prices

• Snap Rap#6 from rapala.
• using rainbow jig with a 2 sinker.

Crankbait Check Prices

• Sexy Shad, White Belly and blue back
  Diving Billed Plug, White Belly grey back
• And Lipless Crank
• I was using a small baby bass colored crankbait, and reeling it in until it smashed into the bottom, then pausing, and they'd crush it on the pause.
• kevin van damn sexy chad, silver/black shiner with red accent and center mass bearings crankbaits
• caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
• Zoom salamander
  Sunfish crank bait
• My Limit was:
  2.27lbs
  1-3/4lbs
  1lb 10oz
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  
  
• shallow shad rap
• Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King
• Catching them on the bluegill squarebill again.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• SENKO / GREEN/WHITE
  BROWN/PINK
  NO WIEGHT
  8 POND LINE
  
• 1/2 Oz Brownish/Greenish football jig w/Green Pumpkin Chigger Chunk trailer
• Throwing a sweet beaver pegged with a 3/8 oz threw the mats and caught a pickerel and ripped the beaver to shred's.
• Jigs in shoreline cover did 95% of the damage
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
• Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Northland minnow

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Night crawler on a #8 hook
• fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
• I seem to have lots of luck with these at that pond, lol

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.
• We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Red and white daredevil
• medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• zara spoof

Blade Bait Check Prices

Grub Check Prices

• Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.
• 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).

Live Baits Check Prices

• squid/ clam/ mackerel typically

Flies Check Prices

Other Check Prices

• yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
• Twitch twitch pause with a jerkbait
• chartruse power bait
• 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds
• Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
  (Lunker City)
• Rainbow Power Bait
• Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar