Fishing near Mendon in Worcester County, MA

Check Prices

• DAT Food in Tuttie-frutty and Obsession
  
  Pescaviva shrimp and scopex
  
  coffee/pepper dough
• Molasses Maize,
  Dat Food,
  Chick Peas,
  a fish/scopex/chillie ground bait
• First fish was on pineapple flavored feed corn on a hair rig. After that though nopthing was touching it.
  
  Changed to the cream corn and grits pack bait and caught 4 other fish within 3 hours
• Dat food (strawberry, Gold, scopex)
  Pescaviva trout pellet and scopex
  WCB Scopex Pop-ups
  chick peas
  
• For bait I kept it simple today. I was travelling by canoe and wanted a light bait bucket. Chick peas, and a batch of strawberry chicks plus DAT food boilies. I used a small amount of ground bait made of breadcrumbs and rolled oats plus some crushed boilies and river water to help hold the carp in the area.
  
  
• This fish was caught on a Maize and Maple combo
• Molasses maize,
  Dat Food
  Chick peas,
  Fishy Ground Bait
• Maize and molasses really the only action we got here
• Dat food, Chick peas and feed corn as well as a good bread/crushed boilie/anise-pepper ground mix
• 
  
  We had plenty of bait on hand. Blackstone Carp brought its very own DAT food boilies for the public to use, we also had a bucket of prepared feed corn, a bucket of Maple peas, a bucket of Chick Peas, a container of Luncheon Meat and a few loaves of bread.
  
  Fish were caught on Feed corn, DAT food Strawberry, and Chick Peas.
  
  

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Medium sized Frog
• 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
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• slug
• worm
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Hand size Kivas
• Shiinners
• Perfect size Kivas

Tube Check Prices

• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• drop shots and topwater
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• June Bug tube
• june bug tubes
• salt and pepper purple flake tube
• Chartreuse pepper flack tube

Creature Check Prices

• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• Carolina Rig
• 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
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.

Minnow Check Prices

• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• 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
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• 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.
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• 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
• Some guy bought some live shiners at Big O's and left us with a few. This one was about 3" long and brought in a 10" perch.
• small minnows, pretty active
• mediums

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Jitter Bug
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
• Jitterbug
• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Purple Flash Popper
• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• Black jitter bug.

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• Sluggo
• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
• I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• red 5" Senko
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad

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

• brown/gold w/ red
• Brown/Gold w/ Red
• Stirke King KVD Sexy Shad Spinnerbait
• Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
• Shad colored spinnerbait w/ white trailer
• Red/black single Colorado gold
• tornado black
• Tornado spinner bait
• firetiger tandem silver willow spinnerbait, with a split tail chartruese trailer.
• Strike King® KVD Spinnerbaits - Double Willow Color Sexy Shad

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• All morning chain pickerel were hitting my plastic lures, but not taking any hooks. One did manage to bite my power worm in just the right spot however, and gave a nice fight. After that I threw a newly acquired Rapala Husky Jerk around, and got an even nicer pickerel in return! If anyone wants that lure, it's still there, stuck in a tree branch.
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
• A pair of 12in on the jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• Rooster Tail
  1. 9in
  2. 10.5in
• 1st. 8in 6oz
  2nd. 5in
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz 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
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  ***
  1st one was 8 1/2in 7oz
  2nd one was 8in 4oz
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  ***Two 4in, One 8in, one 8 1/2in

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• assorted plastics and spinner bait top water frog
• sweat tater pie
• purple flake 6"
• Green Worm with red flakes
• Green worm, green flakes
• 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
• 4 Fish here caught on Senkos. 1 on LiveTarget Frog.
• 5" Senko Pumpkin Black flake
• 5" Senko Black Blue Flake
• Senko Pumpkin Black Flake

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• xps swimbait
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• Storm Shad Minnow
• 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

• 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
• Jerkbait
• 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
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Drop Shot
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
• Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
  The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
• 2-1/4lber was my best
  Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
• 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
  the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller
• All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
• 1-1/4lber was my best
  bunch of 1lbers and 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.
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
• 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake
• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead

Craw Check Prices

• yamamoto watermelon 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.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• crawdads and soft frogs
• Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
• Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Rooster tail
• Rapala Original #7
• Rooster Tail
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
• 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
  4 on Rooster Tail
• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• bleeding hook rapala floater

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold 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.
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Minnow
• Rapala Jointed crankbait
• keep on crankin
• did not change my lure all day
• steady retrieve
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Strike King Pro Series 1XS - Sexy Shad
• Rapala Original F-7 - Minnow
• X-rap Extreme - Yellow Perch
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Perch

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• !/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.
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• 4"senko
• texas rigged senko
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• Storm 2in Perch
• 3 keepers, one was culled

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• silver spoon
• regular silver spoon
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Up on the more northern end of things, we hooked into a few Landlocked salmon bites. Mostly smaller guys, but a few just keepers. Dad hit them on a variety of lures, but all mine came in on Little Cleo spoons. Another species crossed off the bucket list!
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• nice large nightcrawlers
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• 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
• just a small piece
  
• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• rattler
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• Greyish, green, red face
• 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

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• 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

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

• Again corn, white bread work well..I make much of my own dough bait or order some mixes through Wacker Baits
• Sweet corn
• 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
• Same as the other locations. Maple peas worked well for me here, corn, bread, boilies of various flavors.
• Maple peas were on the menu today. I chummed maize/peas/boilies/strawberry corn
  
  
• Dat food, feed corn were used. Dat food produced some but the real hitter of the day was a grits based pack bait ( see the bait tutorial in the forums or on www.blackstonecarp.com)
• Feed corn and Dat food boilies have become my baits of choice as well as staples in any trip.
  
  Molasses and fishy flavors seem to still work well, though strawberry has been more and more effective.
  
  
• Feed corn is a staple for our trips lately, though it was clearly out performed number wise by a cat food/grits/cream corn mix method-pack bait.
  
  The biggest fish of the session however was taken along the far left margins, with 2 pieces of feed corn on a sliding hair rig, with a size 6 hook.
• Many things keep coming along for the ride. Sweet corn flavored various ways,
  Feed corn heavy on molasses,
  Dat food milk based with heavy seed/forage