Fishing near Taunton in Bristol County, MA

Check Prices

• Worm
• shiners
• Standard BPS Red/White 3" Popper and a purple/black spinner bait
• Watermelon red/gold flake Texas
• Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.
• black worm
• 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.
• Rubber worms, swimbaits

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Shiner one foot below float.
• live shiners, 5-6 inches long
• Used live bait and also sanko.
• cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
• porgy
• Shiners on a bobber
• pogie chunk
• Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
• Used some Medium Shinners
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.

Creature Check Prices

• Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
• Black and Blue as usual
• 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
• 4in beaver bait black and blue
  1oz tungsten
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• Flipping a laydown
• squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
• 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

Tube Check Prices

• texas rigged
• 8 lb line
  weightless
  3/0 hook
• tube dark...

Minnow Check Prices

• 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
• live shiners and senkos
• live shiners medium size
• medium-sized shiner
• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
• mumpers

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
• same as bass bait
• Rapala Poppers
• Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
• 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
• throwing floating minnow under the docks along shore, pulling crappies and pickerel, 1 good size bass, 2+lbs but he got off the hook.
• Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
• pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.
• topwater and worms
• White Mouse

Lizard Check Prices

• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• Red/Red

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• Sluggo
• 6" Senko (see pic for color)
  Rapala Floating Minnow
• 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
• KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Green Popper Frog Fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• 3/8 oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ nickel colorado blade
• neon green spinner bait
• neon green spinner bait from bass pro in clearance bin
• 1 keeper @ 1.36lbs, and 5 shorts
• 3/8oz white Bass pro Shops spinnerbait w/ nickel double-willow blades
• wife catches bass #1 on 1/4oz colorado Booyah 'blue glimmer' spinnerbait, I got bass #2 on white 3/8oz BPS double willow spinnerbait
• golden spinner
• caught 7 pickerel and 5 largemouth bass on the following lures: willow/colorado spinnerbait, Zoom Fluke in pearl, Strike King Shim-E-Stick in watermelon green/red flake, and a Stanley Ribbit frog
• 3 largemouth bass & 1 chain pickerel on a white 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye double-willow spinnerbait
• white 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops lazer Eye spinnerbait, nickel dual willow blades

Frog Bait Check Prices

• chartreuse SnagProof frog
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Strike King Rage Toad
• 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
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• green scum frog
  
  yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
• largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
• Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs

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.
• I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
• I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
• I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
• 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
• seinko 5" junebug purple
• slow action on jerkbait long pauses

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
• Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
• silver/red inline spinner
  
  white/red spot jerk bait
• Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
• Panther Martin
• mepps agalia
• Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• Mepps Agila #1 silver.
• gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker

Worm Check Prices

• Two 1-3/4lbers, Three 1-1/2lbs, and a 1lber
  
  Worms. Spinnerbait, and one on a rage frog
• 0range floating
• 10 inch
• senko - black with blue flake
• Senko
• senko early season , rats when the pads start to fill in.
• Berkley power bait
• Berkeley powerbait
• Watermelon colored SENKO worm, texas rigged with a small weight
• 5" watermelon red/black flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick, rigged weightless tex-posed, 4" Yamamoto Senko, watermelon red/black/green flake, wacky-rigged

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• 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.
• Storm Shad Minnow
• 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.
• 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.
• Green rattling to Zuri
• Storm shad mullet color
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• xps swimbait

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• A mix of 6" to 1lb
• 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
  2 shorts, and 2 lost
• 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.

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Worm, and Spinnerbait
  
  1.48lbs, and three 1lbers
  
  4 shorts
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• 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"
• 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
• 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
• My 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs
• 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• strike king red craw texas rigged
  
  blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
• 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
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• zoom bass love em super fluke
• Black senko worm
• Black senko rubber worm
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
• Powerbait
• Rapala Original #7
• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• GOOD OLD SENKO

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

• Snap Rap#6 from rapala.
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

• Bomber 4A
• 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
• 2 bass on a Rapala floating minnow, 1 pickerel on a spinnerbait
• shallow diver with sunfish pattern
• rebel ghost minnow - silver
• 4 inch rapala original floater - gold
• i had 10 (3 were 20+) and nicholas had 11. most were crankbaits, though i caught a couple on a rooster tail.
• Rapala DT-4, Perch
• perch rapala
• nicholas caught 15 and i got 4. all on rapalas

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
• 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.
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
• 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 5" and 6" Senko
• Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• regular silver spoon
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
• Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
• gold little cleo
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
• Just worms nothing special.
• cast it to the side near the littel pump house but farther out
• Live night crawler on a drop shot.
• just put a nightcarwler on there and drop nit in ull have a bass as soon as u look blink
• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• 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.
• We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
• rattler

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• medium speed
• Red and white daredevil

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• zara spoof

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

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.
• Berkley white grub with a tail.
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
• Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
• Berkley White Grub.
• Pumpkin tail carolina style

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
• Black Spinner Bait
  
  
  Drop down Menu not working correctly!!
  
• Pink Powerbait nuggets
• Just bread balls
• 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.
  
• 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.
• porgy snagger
• uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
• Powerbait