Fishing near Franklin in Norfolk County, MA

Check Prices

• zoom watermelon seed finese worms
• senkos t rigged midnight flake
• we used wonder bread for the carp. and the bass were hitting spoons
• 5 inch senko neon green/cream 4 inch watermellon w/ blk flake they were hitting on the way in. just drifting and casting on little cleo spoons.
• Senkos rigged wacky and texas
• Wacky Seko BK/BL
• will use nightcrawlers
• Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.
• shiner
• black worm

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• Medium to small sized frogs seem to work the best but ive even caught pike and largemouth off of a full grown frog sink em or let em swim on top either way works very effectivly
• Medium sized Frog
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• slug
• worm
• Shiner one foot below float.
• live shiners, 5-6 inches long
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• porgy

Creature Check Prices

• Gary Yamomoto Kreature, red and black, or green with black specks...on the top, twitched through the weeds, slime, or open water. Sometimes I let it sink to the bottom and twitch it slightly. The one that got away was of course, huge. I'm bummin'.
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• Black and Blue as usual
• Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish

Tube Check Prices

• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• tube dark...
• use small tube
• texas rigged
• 8 lb line
  weightless
  3/0 hook
• drop shots and topwater
• minitube flourescent

Minnow Check Prices

• 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
• small minnows, pretty active
• Shiners
• Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• medeim to large shiners and never thought nightcrawlers would work through the ice but i ended up with a crappie and a perch while jigging one just waitin for my flags
• I found that using medium shiners with a bass hook hooked through the back of the tail worked best. The bait seems to stay much more lively that way.
• shiner
• Caught by a friend on a shiner.
• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• topwater and worms
• Purple Flash Popper
• Jitter Bug
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Black jitter bug.
• Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color

Lizard Check Prices

• 8" Pumpkinseed
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• Red/Red
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• red 5" Senko
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• 4.5in Slug-go
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding
• baby bass berkley slug

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• tornado black
• Tornado spinner bait
• Worked several lures, while my son was busy catching the fish with shiners.
• Shad colored spinnerbait w/ white trailer
• Red/black single Colorado gold
• single coloroado # 5, blue w/red speckle skirt.3/8oz
• firetiger tandem silver willow spinnerbait, with a split tail chartruese trailer.
• golden spinner
• Mostly caught on shore line with a spinner bait or buzz bait
• Fishing tree lines

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Spro Frog
• Strike King Rage Toad
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• chartreuse SnagProof frog
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser
• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• Jerkbait
• A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
• A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• 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
• slow action on jerkbait long pauses
• seinko 5" junebug purple
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 9in
  2. 10.5in
• 1st. 8in 6oz
  2nd. 5in
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  1. 15.5in
  2. 13in 1lb
• 1/8 Rooster Tail
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• mepps agalia

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• black blue fleck
• bass master 6 inch madi gras
• Zoom Watermelon seed
• zoom finese worm watermelon seed and power bait bass atractant
• senkos you name it i tryed it tried a kvd squair bill 4 ft dive even tried a plug around the pads
• wonderbread to the rescue
• Just a regular powerbait worm hooked thru the top.
• live bait works well here also wether its frogs shiners or just a nightcrawler. i found swimbaits and spinners are also great just depends on weather conditions
• red shad senko 6 inch
• 5" Red/Black Senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• xps swimbait
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Storm Shad Minnow
• Dark Senkos wacky
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• 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
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• Jerkbait
• Crank and buzzbait
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"

Soft Baits Check Prices

• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Drop Shot
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• Dropshot
• Dropshot Sluggo
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• Worm, and Spinnerbait
  
  1.48lbs, and three 1lbers
  
  4 shorts
• Jigs & Worms
  Our Limit:
  Chuck had a 3lber
  I had a 4lber, 3-1/4lber, 3lber, and 1-3/4lber
  
  The rest from 1-3/4lbs to shorts

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 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.
• 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Rapala Original #7
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Rooster Tail
• 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
  4 on Rooster Tail
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail
• bleeding hook rapala floater
• Rapala F-5 Original

Craw Check Prices

• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• crawdads and soft frogs
• Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
• Weighted Texas rigged soft craw

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• Rapala Jerkbait
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

Jigs Check Prices

• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• 11" on Shaky Head
  15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
• jig n pig
• Our Limit was :
  My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz
  
  1lb and under on the rest
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...

Crankbait Check Prices

• Bass Pro XPS suspending minnow
• perch rapala
• nicholas had 11 and i had 4. all crankbaits. a couple were pretty big for sunfish.
• Rapala DT-4, Perch
• i had 10 (3 were 20+) and nicholas had 11. most were crankbaits, though i caught a couple on a rooster tail.
• 4 inch rapala original floater - gold
• shallow crank square almost matching bass color
• Rapala DT-4
• nicholas caught 15 and i got 4. all on rapalas
• tried a soft worm for a while, but got nothing. crankbaits and spoons work well on this pond.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• Threw a black on black 1/4 jig and #11 pork frog in the trees and a Koppers live target frog in the scum and pads
• Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
• 3/4lb on Jig
  two 10 inchers on drop shot
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• Strike King Bass Jig

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• Storm 2in Perch
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• 5" and 6" Senko
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• regular silver spoon
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• silver spoon
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• nice large nightcrawlers
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• rattler
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• Greyish, green, red face
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub

Other Check Prices

• Pink Powerbait nuggets
• These are trout waters and by RI rules that means no chumming, no corn. So boilies, glugs and maple peas were on the menu. I had a few good hits on some homemade Scopex flavored boilies but no hook ups.
  
  The one I did manage to catch was on Maple peas, two on a short hair, with a 2 oz semi-fixed bolt rig.
• I had a variety of bait with me, however they were only striking a pack bait made of grits, corn juice and molasses plus some other flavoring.
  
  roughly 24 oz quick grits
  juice from one can of corn
  a good bit of molasses
  baby rice cereal to help fluff it out
  
  Place one or two corn pops on the hook and then pack it pretty good into golf ball sized lumps around your hook and pops.
  
• Chummed with feed corn/maple peas and a ground mix of oats/grits/bran/condensed milk/cream corn
  
  Hook bait was Feed corn and maple peas
• Again the Dat food boilie line really worked well here. Shrimplies(shrimp) and gold( pineapple) performed above my expectations. Feed corn was of course also on the menu and produced a few good runs.
• Sweet corn
• Again corn, white bread work well..I make much of my own dough bait or order some mixes through Wacker Baits
• Again Feed corn is a big success here. Also shrimp/fishy flavored boilies have produced well.
  
  
• Dat Food Obsession
  Dat Food Tuttie
  Dat Food Omega
  Chick peas
  Pescaviva sweet corn
• Maple peas were on the menu today. I chummed maize/peas/boilies/strawberry corn