Fishing near Braintree in Norfolk County, MA

Check Prices

• chug bug
• 1/4 oz double willow white spinnerbait with silver blades
• used a thumping spinnerbait dark colored senko and black buzzbait
• Crank baits shallow diving and top water minnow all dark colors to match the dark water and area
• earthworm
• Powerbait
• Nightcrawler
• Powerbait and floating a worm off the bottom...
• total junk fishing day caught them on plastics cranks topwater buzzers spinners no strong pattern other than rocks trumped grass
• white spinner bait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
• SEAWORMS
• Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
  one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
• Live eels
• Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.
• Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
• We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
• Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
• live mackerel

Creature Check Prices

• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
• Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
• squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
• Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
  -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• 4in beaver bait black and blue
  1oz tungsten
• Black and Blue as usual
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color

Tube Check Prices

• tube dark...
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• use small tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• Tube and huge sea worms

Minnow Check Prices

• medium-sized shiner
• shiners
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• Shiners under a bobber.
• Dead minnows
• Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
• We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
• small minnows, pretty active
• minnows and night crawlers and one on a crank bait. They were suspended up high today so all you had to do was drop the lure or bait with no weight and just sit there and wait for them to gulp it down
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.
• Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
• basic top water pencil popper type lure.
• pencil popper
• White Mouse
• BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern
• BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
• Used a silver/black top water popper, cast under overhanging brush and near the weeds, every few cranks I'd give a slight jerk and it drove them nuts
• Rebel Pop-R - Silver/Blue patern.
• Rebel Pop-R blue herring pattern.

Lizard Check Prices

• Red/Red
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• green w/ red fleck
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• berkley slug
• baby bass berkley slug
• Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
• This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
• 6" on inline spinner
  3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
• 1st was 13" 1lb
  2nd was 6"
• red 5" Senko
• rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Green Popper Frog Fly
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• 2lb on a Berkley slug Big bass ona spinnerbait
• SPinnerbait double willows tried with several speeds. Also used minus1 crankbait slow rolled.
• managed 2 bass 1 perch and a sunfish. Small bass and the panfish were on a j9 and the big girl came on a buzzbait.
• tossed a ton of stuff
  
  but all the fish but 1 perch came on a spinnerbait
• 3/16 white spinnerbait
  
  burned near surface
• buzzbait
• 1/4 black thumper
• H&H spinnerbait with blue/chartreuse skirt
• using a curly tailed soft bait on the jig hook - slow to moderate retrieve, just enough to keep the spinners going and the bait a foot below the surface.
• Arbogast Jitterbug and Rebel Buzz'n Frog

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.
  
  Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
• Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• Spro Frog
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Strike King Rage Toad

Streamer Check Prices

• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

• I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
• small ultra lite baits
  
  many species of fish caught over the years; trout, salmon, largemouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, calico bass, pickerel, blue gills.
  The 100 is estimated
• Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
• Rapala jerkbait
• seinko 5" junebug purple
• slow action on jerkbait long pauses
• RC jerkbait did most of the heavy lifting. It caught 7 0f the 8 bass 5 of the 7 pickles and 1 sunnie.
  
  Also caught a bass on a spinnerbait and 2 pickles on a minus
• I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
• I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
• rapala

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
• Rooster Tail
• gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
• Panther Martin
• Gold spinner
• mepps agalia
• #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.
• Mepps Agila #1 silver.
• rooster tail
• Mepps Aglia spinner, jigged and casted, more success jigging.

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• Various jigs worked along with different teasers
• Sabiki rig, white

Worm Check Prices

• Berkley 7" Power worm in black and blue
• Green Pumpkin and Chartruese 4" YUM Dinger.
• baby bass senko
• baby bass Senko rigged weightless
• white senko
• Rootbeer senko
• Pink Strike King Finesse Worm
• Wacky-rigged dark green flaked worm
• 6" Senko in Green Pumpkin. Fished in an unweighted Texas-rig with a 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• Berkley Power Work

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Storm shad mullet color
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• Storm Shad Minnow
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Small swim bait. Also my 12 year old son caught one on a shiner. From this and previous trips, seen some close to a pound in here. Pretty decent size for a perch.
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• xps swimbait

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• All between 6" & 9"
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• Crank and buzzbait
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• A mix of 6" to 1lb
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
• Dropshot
• 1 Keeper barely 12"
  The rest were in the 8"-11"range
• Drop Shot
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
• Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
  1st was a little over a 1lb
  2nd was 12"
  3rd was 2lbs 2oz
• 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
  The rest were in the 8"-11" range
• Chatterbait, Swimbait, Jig, Dropshot
  My Limit was 2lb 6oz, 2lb 5oz, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 7oz, and 1lb 6oz
  
  what didn't make the cut:
  two 1lb 6oz
  half a dozen between 1-1/4lb & 1lb
  one 14oz
  one short
• Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot
  
  Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)
  
  
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.
• 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.

Craw Check Prices

• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
• Powerbait
• zoom bass love em super fluke
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
• Black senko worm
• Black senko rubber worm
• Rapala F-5 Original
• Rooster Tail
• Rapala F-7 Original Silver

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Rapala Jerkbait
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• blue silver reble
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

• metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

• Mid depth crankbait straight retrieve.
• worked quickly with pauses and jerks
• Most fish caught on a j9 bronze color but did get a few on soft plastics and the biggest on a hollow body swim-bait.
• j9 black/gold
• slow slow slow presentation
• Strike King Squarebill
• Rapala XRap
• KVD Square Bill 1.0 TN Shad 2-4ft depth
• KVD 1.0 square bill crank bait TN Shad
• was slowly fishing a deep crank that floats letting it float to top after each crank then BANG these little suckers came right up on it

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
• manns stone 3/8 jig
• Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.
  
  YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
• Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
• They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• Strike King Bass Jig
• flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
• JIG N PIG
  4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
  WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
• 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
• 5" and 6" Senko
• Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• yamamoto swimsenko
• Lake fork magic shad
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• gold little cleo
• Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
• 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• trout worms
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Live night crawler on a drop shot.
• Just worms nothing special.
• all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!
• i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
• cast it to the side near the littel pump house but farther out
• just put a nightcarwler on there and drop nit in ull have a bass as soon as u look blink

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• rattler
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb

Herring Check Prices

• Live lining mackeral
• Herring Chunk

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms
• Clams
• Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.
• medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper Fishing
• Popper fishing off the boat
• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
• Popper fishing
• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
• chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

• Berkley White Grub.
• Berkley white grub with a tail.
• Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
• Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Dropshotting

Live Baits Check Prices

• Seaworms
• Fresh Cut Pogies
• Sea Worms
• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub

Other Check Prices

• Powerbait
• Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
• Cut mackerel
• Fresh, chunked mackerel.
• Chunked mackerel. Fresh. Baitshop frozen doesn't make the cut here...
• Fresh, caught that day, small mackerels. Steel leader, size 8 hook.
• Chunked, frozen, garbage mackerel.
• Power bait
• yellow power eggs
• yellow power bait