Fishing near Swansea in Bristol County, MA

Check Prices

• basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
• Crank bait, surface poppers
• Watermelon red/gold flake Texas
• Worm
• A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
• Dat Food,
  Maple Peas,
  Chick Peas
• i used pogy
• shiners
• senkos t rigged midnight flake
• Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
• pogie chunk
• live linning pogies
• live shiners, 5-6 inches long
• Shiners on a bobber
• porgy
• Used some Medium Shinners
• sandworms
• Shiner one foot below float.
• Used live bait and also sanko.

Tube Check Prices

• texas rigged
• 8 lb line
  weightless
  3/0 hook

Creature Check Prices

• baby brush hog (green pumpkin green 1/8 oz bullet head sinker
  
  palm tree green pumpkin green weight-less
• palm tree red skirt black trunck
• HIT IT ON A PALM TREE MADE BY KINAMI BAITS
• using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
• Flipping a laydown
• Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
• Black and Blue as usual
• used baby brush hog
• 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'.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture

Minnow Check Prices

• live shiners and senkos
• live shiners medium size
• menhaden
• Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
• Caught by a friend on a shiner.
• Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• Shiners
• mumpers
• Large (heavies) shiners
• 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Topwater pencil bait, shoots down about 1-2 feet when you yank it, then pops back up to the surface.
• Pencil bait, same as other
• BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
• same as bass bait
• top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
• fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
• Rapala Poppers
• Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
• I only used topwater frogs, black buzz and some weedless ones that I picked up at bass pro. The 22" was cought on a light green weedless frog. One day I'll buy a scale...
• Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.

Lizard Check Prices

• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 3 chain pickerel on a silver/white 1/8oz Strike King Mini-King spinnerbait - 1 largemouth bass on watermelon/red flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick(a Senko-type lure)
• 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
• Mann's Shadow
• fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades
• 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
• 6" Senko (see pic for color)
  Rapala Floating Minnow
• Sluggo
• pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear
• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• Shad colored 5" Senko

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..
• yellow spinner colorado blade silver
• Spinnerbait
  Limit consisted of:
  2lb 5oz
  2lb 4oz
  1lb 15oz
  1-1/2lbs
  1lb 6oz
• All 10 between 1lb - 1-14lb culled or didn't make the cut
• Mostly between 3lbs-4lbs
• uh, spinnerbait
• White Spinner bait with a white Double Tailed Grub trailer
• neon green spinner bait
• neon green spinner bait from bass pro in clearance bin
• spinner, silver with red trim

Frog Bait Check Prices

• green scum frog
  
  yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
• green scum frog
• Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits
• Stanley Ribbit
• chartreuse SnagProof frog
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Strike King Rage Toad
• largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
• Weedless Topwater Frog

Squid Check Prices

• i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits

Stick Bait Check Prices

• A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
• Jerkbait
• A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
• a lot of plastic worms work out.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• silver/red inline spinner
  
  white/red spot jerk bait
• Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
• Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
• Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• senko
• 5 inch brown and green senkos
• black w/chart specs senkos
  
  wacky rig and texas
  
  both close to shore
• black/chart flake senko
  yellow/green spinner
  bass pro 4.5 inch cut tail worm pumpkin seed
• black senko
• strike king watermelon flake worm
• caught it on a greenish senko
• Senko
  1st Bass 1lb 15oz
  2nd Bass 14oz
• caught on a senko while fishing for bass
• 1st was 13oz
  2nd was 1lb 10oz

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Got 3 bass on shiners( including the biggest). 2 small ones on yum 5 in green pumpkin plastic worm. 5 bluegill on small lure too.
• Yum 5in green pumpkin worm. Also got 3 on shiners ( including the biggest). Got two small ones on yum. 3 bluegill on small lure too.
• Green rattling to Zuri

Hard Baits Check Prices

• We keep 5 Bass total
  My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
• Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.
• Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Worm, and Spinnerbait
  
  1.48lbs, and three 1lbers
  
  4 shorts
• My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
  Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber
  
  Also 2 shorts
• My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
  1-3/4lber
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Two 1-1/4lbers
  
  also a couple 1lbers, and a short
  
  Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait
• Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• Our 5 fish limit was
  2-1/4lbs (Fred)
  1lb 5oz (Fred)
  1lb 2oz (Me)
  two 1lb 1oz (Me)
  
  Many other between 3-/4 to 1lb
• Shakey Head, and Drop Shot
  My Keepers were:
  4lb 5oz
  1-1/2lbs
  Two 1lbers
  
  Paul had 3lber, 1-1/4lbs, a couple 1lbers
• Lot's of baits today: topwater, dropshot, senko, spinnerbait, and shakey head.
  
  My limit was:
  1-1/2lber
  1lb 6oz
  1-1/4lber
  Two 1lbers
• My 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

• strike king red craw texas rigged
  
  blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
• weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night

Lure (Other) Check Prices

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Rapala Jerkbait
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.

Jigs Check Prices

• Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

• My Limit was:
  2.27lbs
  1-3/4lbs
  1lb 10oz
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  
  
• caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
• Catching them on the bluegill squarebill again.
• Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King
• Zoom salamander
  Sunfish crank bait
• shallow shad rap
• small lightning stick
• orange, black split center
• 2 bass on a Rapala floating minnow, 1 pickerel on a spinnerbait
• bass #1, Bass Pro Shops XPS The Egg wake bait in sexy shad color. bass #2, Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait, 3/8oz white dual nickel willow blades

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
• Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
• 3/4lb on Jig
  two 10 inchers on drop shot
• Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
• flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• regular silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Night crawler on a #8 hook
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
• fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Crabs, and Squid

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Red and white daredevil
• medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• zara spoof

Grub Check Prices

• 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

• uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
• same bait, dough bait
• Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
• Just bread balls
• porgy snagger
• Powerbait
• Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
• Pink Powerbait nuggets
• 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
• 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.