Fishing near Hingham in Plymouth County, MA

Check Prices

• used a thumping spinnerbait dark colored senko and black buzzbait
• 1/4 oz double willow white spinnerbait with silver blades
• chug bug
• Heddon baby torpedo
• Crank baits shallow diving and top water minnow all dark colors to match the dark water and area
• THE FRESHEST, BLOODIEST MACKEREL chunks. Nobody with store bought chunks were hitting anything.
• pumpkin seed, perch
• small largemouth, perch, pumpkin seed, Crappie
• white rubber worm, shiners, nightcrawlers
• shiners and night crawlers

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
• cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
• live mackerel
• SEAWORMS
• Live eels
• Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
  one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
• 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.

Creature Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

• tube dark...
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• Tube and huge sea worms
• use small tube
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.

Minnow Check Prices

• Shiners under a bobber.
• medium-sized shiner
• shiners
• Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
• Dead minnows
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
• small minnows, pretty active

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.
• 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.
• pencil popper
• BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
• Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
• Rebel Popper
• Rebel Pop-R
• Bomber red and white cigar style topwater, walkin the dog.

Lizard Check Prices

• Red/Red
• 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
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• berkley slug
• Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
• baby bass berkley slug
• This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
• wacky rig
  couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
• KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
• rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
• Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
• 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
• 6" on inline spinner
  3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• 1/4 black thumper
• buzzbait
• tossed a ton of stuff
  
  but all the fish but 1 perch came on a spinnerbait
• 3/16 white spinnerbait
  
  burned near surface
• 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.
• SPinnerbait double willows tried with several speeds. Also used minus1 crankbait slow rolled.
• 2lb on a Berkley slug Big bass ona spinnerbait
• Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill
• small spinerbait bluegill color
• H&H spinnerbait with blue/chartreuse skirt

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 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
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Spro Frog
• chartreuse SnagProof frog

Streamer Check Prices

• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Rapala jerkbait
• Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
• 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
• Olive Shad X-Rap
• I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
• I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
• I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
• 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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
• Mepps Aglia spinner, jigged and casted, more success jigging.
• Mepps Agila #1 silver.
• Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
• Rooster Tail
• Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
• #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.
• Gold spinner
• rooster tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail

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

• Wacky Worming
• Wacky Worming a YUM plastic worm.
• white senko
• baby bass Senko rigged weightless
• baby bass senko
• Green Pumpkin and Chartruese 4" YUM Dinger.
• Yamamoto white colored wacky rigged
• Berkeley powerbait worm
• Berkley 7" Power worm in black and blue
• 4" YUM Dinger

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Storm shad mullet color
• 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.
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• Storm Shad Minnow
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• 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

Hard Baits Check Prices

• A mix of 6" to 1lb
• 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
  2 shorts, and 2 lost
• All between 6" & 9"
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• Crank and buzzbait
• 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
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• 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

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

Craw Check Prices

• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• 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
• Black senko rubber worm
• Black senko worm
• Green umbrella rig and red umbrella rig... Trolled at 8-10 RPMs. 40-60 feet deep....red white knuckle head popper
• Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Rooster tail
• Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

• Strike King Squarebill
• worked quickly with pauses and jerks
• Mid depth crankbait straight retrieve.
• Rapala XRap
• KVD Square Bill 1.0 TN Shad 2-4ft depth
• KVD 1.0 square bill crank bait TN Shad
• sexy shad lipless crank
• Rapala 7-11 foot crankbait. Not sure what the pattern is called
• 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

Bass Jig Check Prices

• They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
• Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
• manns stone 3/8 jig
• Found a big panfish jig in a tree after loosing my bass jigs. Put on a yum craw black blue. Worked along the bottom.
• 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
• Black and blue finesse jig. Rigged with a black with red fleck zoom chunk. Worked slowly along bottom
• 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.
• JIG N PIG
  4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
  WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
• flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Olive wooly bugger

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
• Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
• 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.
• yamamoto swimsenko
• Lake fork magic shad
• 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
• Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• trout worms
• all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!
• Live night crawler on a drop shot.
• Just worms nothing special.
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• 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

Herring Check Prices

• Live lining mackeral
• Herring Chunk

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

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 off the boat
• Popper Fishing
• Popper fishing
• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
• 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...

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
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Dropshot
• Pumpkin tail carolina style

Live Baits Check Prices

• Seaworms
• Sea Worms
• Fresh Cut Pogies

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• Cut mackerel
• Chunked, frozen, garbage 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.
• Powerbait
• Pogy
• Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
• Chunked mackerel
• Clams, dropped to the bottom. 2.5 foot leader on a baitholder hook.