Fishing near Wales in Hampden County, MA

Check Prices

• berkley power bait trout nugget
• Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
• shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
• 5 Keepers:
  2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  2 shorts
• 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
• Flies and Jigs
• Just a worm on a size 2 hook.
• Senko
  Kivas
  Rubber Frog
• Dead Bait
• one 1-1/2 lber and 3 other all around a pound

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Big shiners
• Hand size Kivas
• Chung's Best
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Shiinners
• Perfect size Kivas
• Live Carwfish
• eel
• They bite sand-worm and night crawlers

Creature Check Prices

• zoom brush hawg pumpkin
• Carolina Rig
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish

Tube Check Prices

• drop shots and topwater

Minnow Check Prices

• We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
• Med Shiners
  Wish we had gotten some larger ones
• you play the bait and bobber set up similar to the canal at the cape.I set the bait at about 24-27",sent it up curent and let it pass you reel it back and repeat.
• Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
• tip ups
• Chung's Best
• large shiners on trokar hooks
• Small
  Medium
  Big Dead Pondies
• live bait old school
• large shinners with a bobber

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Popper
• Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass
  
  
• Lunker city Salad Spoon
• Live Target Brown Mouse
• Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• spinnerbait , plastic worms
• 2lber on Spinnerbait
  10" on drop shot
• Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
  11-1/2" Short
  1lber culled
  Limit was:
  1-1/2lbs
  1lb 7oz
  1-1/4lbs
  1lb 1oz
  1lber
• Fast retrieve
• My 3 Fish Limit was:
  1lb 11oz
  1lb 4oz
  14oz
  
  4 Shorts too
  

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
• Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Rapala blue and white rattle
• others at this pond using gold fish,trout bait and worms

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Rooster Tail
• Phoebe
• 6" and 8" on inline spinner
• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner
• rooster tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• green pumpkin senko
• Yamamoto black Senko
• i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
• Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
• black senko
• Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
• Yamamoto sinkos
• junebug w/blue fleck
• Senko Worm
• 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
  Color: South Africa special
  1 on Live Target Frog
  Color: Bull Frog

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• jig heads / swim tails
• SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• 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

• Surprised I only got one today!
• Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
• 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
• Drop shot
• Dropshot
• 11" Drop Shot
  11-3/4" Carolina Rig
• Drop Shot, and Shakey Head
• Drop Shot
• 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
• All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
• Most were caught on a Trout Magnet . 1 on a Rapala and the other on aRooster Tail . Largest fish was the Last one caught . Trout magnet was the right bait to yse today.
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
• gulp

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Gulp Alive
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
• Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Rooster tail

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• ratl trap
• First cast and I had one.

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
  

Crankbait Check Prices

• Booyah tiger
• just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
• spinner bait
  yamos
  crankbaits
• nofish but I know they're here sometimes
• crankbaits and spinners
• hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
• Squarebill, and dropshot
• Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
• booya crankbaits brown and green
• 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 4-1/4lb on a jig
  3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
  two 1lbers on buzzbait
  
• 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
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot
• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
• Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
• Reaction Innovations
  Little Dipper
  Dirty Sanchez

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
• ok i have caught fish here with everything lures, shiners, night crawlers and i have even caught LMB with sunfish that i had caught on the worm initially. In fact when i realized that a huge bass was hitting my sunfish and the hook was too small to catch it, i rigged a bigger hook threw the fish back out and pulled in a 5-7lb bass. It was the 5th fat bass for summer 2009

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Zara Spook

Grub Check Prices

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Trout Magnet Jig
• Trout Magnet Jigs
• Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
  One Brook Trout and one Rainbow.
• Trout Magnet
• Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body

Other Check Prices

• powerbait yellow
• Big
  Dead
  
• Rainbow Powerbait
• Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
• Powerbait rainbow
• rainbow or green powerbait
• Chicken Liver
• YELLOW GRUB
  WEIGHTS
  BIG HOOKS
• We use #2 hooks with leaders and tie them to our line
  A 3 oz weight to hold it on the bottom
• Garlic
  Garlic with Corn