Fishing near Sherborn in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• senkos
• zoom finese watermelon seed
• assorted plastics
• Senko green w/red sparkle
• Wacky Seko BK/BL
• Senkos rigged wacky and texas
• Silver lipless crank bait
• Caught one on a 5" gray with purple fleck Yamamoto Senko immediately followed by another on a yellow & green crankbait.
• will use nightcrawlers
• Pulling into the access point, I find this...

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• slug
• worm
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• Large and XL Shiners
• Large Minnows
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• 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
• Shiner one foot below float.

Tube Check Prices

• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• tube dark...
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• use small tube
• minitube flourescent
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• June Bug tube

Creature Check Prices

• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• 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'.
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Black and Blue as usual

Minnow Check Prices

• shiner
• 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
• 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.
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• Dead minnows
• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Black jitter bug.
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Purple Flash Popper
• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Popper
• Jitter Bug
• Rapala SkitterPop 7 in brown frog

Lizard Check Prices

• 8" Pumpkinseed
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• Red/Red
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• Sluggo
• 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
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
• Two 1lb Pickerel
• 4.5in Slug-go
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• firetiger tandem silver willow spinnerbait, with a split tail chartruese trailer.
• Red/black single Colorado gold
• Shad colored spinnerbait w/ white trailer
• 3/16oz Black Buzzbait
• Strike King® KVD Spinnerbaits - Double Willow Color Sexy Shad
• a crankbait with a spinner attached on the front.
• Spinner white/green with silver/gold blades
• White Double willow spinner
• One 12" Jumbo Perch, and @ smaller ones
• Chartruese w/ green and red

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
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• yellow paddle tail frog. we saw a break in the water and knew there was a good fish. hit it a few times till he got him to take it.
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• Weedless Topwater Frog

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• Jerkbait
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8 oz. Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6 Rooster Tail
• Two 9" and a 11 1/4in 10oz on 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1st fish of the night
• 1/8 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
• silver in-line spinner with red feather

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• 4" senko
• Gary Yamamoto 5" Senko
  159 Blue Black Chart Flake
  aka. Black Magic
• Used 5" senko, a frog for the lilly pads, hula popper, 5 inch minnow
• 4" yum
• 4" yums and crankbaits
• 6" pumkin and green stick worm
• Yamamoto Black/Blue Flake Worm
• yum soft worm
• a couple on a perch rapala, but most were on a 4-inch green yum.
• Wacky worms in blue/black, green/white, white/silver

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• xps swimbait
• Storm Shad Minnow
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• Dark Senkos wacky
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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.
• 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"
• All between 6" & 9"
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot Sluggo
• Dropshot
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• 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
• Worms, Jigs, and 1 on topwater early
  
  My contribution to the limit was a 3-1/2lber
  
  The rest were 2lbs to 3/4lbs mostly
• Drop Shot
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 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.
• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rapala Original #7
• bleeding hook rapala floater
• Rooster Tail
• Rapala F-5 Original
• I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
  Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait
• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail
• Rocket Shad Spinnerbait
• 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
  4 on Rooster Tail
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending

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
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• Rapala Jerkbait
• SPRO BBZ1
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

• 11" on Shaky Head
  15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
• Our Limit was :
  My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz
  
  1lb and under on the rest
• jig n pig
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

• rapala
• perch rapala
• Matzuo competition crankbait.
• Bass Pro Shops XPS Lazer Eye Hardbaits - Super Shallow Crank in Homer color.
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• nicholas got his on a perch rapala. i stuck to the yum worm all day. surprisingly got 2 pickerel on it.
• he was using a long lipped crankbait made to dive 8 feet. i recommended against it because the weeds are only a couple of feet below the surface. he worked it slow and it paid off. what do i know, lol....
• crankbaits all day
• nicholas got one on a crankbait and i got one on a plastic worm
• small rapala

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• 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
• fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
• !/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.
• 1st was 17-1/2in 2lb-3/4lb
  3rd was 12-1/2in 3/4lb
• Couple of 1-1/2lbers, couple of 1lber, and a 1/2lber
• Strike King Bass Jig
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• SENKO(GREEN),SLUGO(BLUE)

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Storm 2in Perch
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• nice large nightcrawlers
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• Kids materials
• live worm on float
• night crawler on a float
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

• Sweetcorn
• Berkley PowerBait
• Jigs, Craws, Swimbait, Dropshot, Chatterbait, Spinnerbait
  
  Two were 1-3/4lbs
  Five were 1-1/2lbs
  The rest were 1-1/4lbs and lower
• SPINNER BAIT
• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• rooster tail
• Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
• White Berkely Honey worm
• Got one on the mop jig just across the current. Got another on the buzzbait a little further out. Got a couple of shorts.
• power bait