Fishing near Mason in Hillsborough County, NH

Check Prices

• fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
• senko
• plastics
• Look for the ramp, it a little one!
• Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters
• texes rigged senko
• mepps lure
• Green with gold belly swim bait.
• smoke red flake senkos
• wacky worms and spinnerbaits

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Bobber & Shiner.
• Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
• 5 inch yellow perch
• Big Shinner
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners
• Shinners
• Pike shinners, again
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• Yellow Perch

Creature Check Prices

• all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz

Tube Check Prices

• june bug tube
• pumpkin seed tube

Minnow Check Prices

• pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
• Large shiners
• We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
• actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
• Shine on and dropped.
• pinners
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• Medium shiner
• We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
• Live minnow

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
• 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
• jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

• Fish back right of the pond
• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
• red
• Spinner Baits
  Jigs (Texas Rig)

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Ribbit frog
• Swimming the frog through the pads
• Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage

Stick Bait Check Prices

• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
• powerbait nuggets

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
• Asortment of spinners.
• 1/4 ounce
• Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
• Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
• Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
• White Rooster Tail
• Use any kind of spinning lure. I do not think there are any bass here, but PLENTY of hard fighting pickerel, and perch.

Dry Fly Check Prices

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  
• purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
• Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
• Bronze 2-way spinner hook, size #4
• Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
• Neon yellow 2-way spinner hook.
• Bronze 2-way spinner hook.
• senko
• gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
• Black or Brown body with Chartreuse tail

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
• Black worm with bright yellow tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Senko and Dropshot
• Dropshot

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook & trout worm.
• senkos
• Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
• Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked
• mepps
• mepps #2
• mepps #3 trebble hook
• sluggos

Craw Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

• shallow running crank baits
• Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
• Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
• purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
• Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
• Same details as Bass 1
• Same as Bass 1
• many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
• KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
• rapala wounded minnow

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Crawfish style.
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• pumpkin
• brown

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
• Wolly Bugger

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
• 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
• KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
• white
• Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
• KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddletail Swimbait

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
• Sherbert (Pink & Orange Glitter) Powerbait.
• Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• Worm + Hook + Bottom = Hornpout.
• Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Brass 2-Way Spinner Hook.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Chatterbait
• Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.

Grub Check Prices

• Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
• Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
  Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait
• Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
  Booyah Frog

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

• 2 fish were caught with a Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook and worm.
  One was caught on a #6 hook and floating orange Powerbait "Trout Nibbles".
  All were caught mid-water, on the retrieve.
• Rainbow PowerBait. Trout Formula.
• My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
• Feed corn and dat food were on the menu. We also tried chick peas, canned corn, luncheon meat, a coupld of pack/dough baits.
  
  We chummed a mix or bread crumb, hemp meal, pineapple soda and other such ingredients.
  
  
• We had many things on hand, oatmeal, boilies, chick peas, feed corn, birdseed and grits based pack/method mixes, dog food, maple peas...
  
  In the end most fish were caught on Chick peas, followed by Dat food (strawberry) with one on Simon's pineapple birdseed "cake" boilie.
• Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
• Oatmeal is the bait of choice from the locals. Simon and I also brought feed corn, boilies, chick peas, a few dough baits and a grits based pack bait.
  
  all action was from our Dat food boilies ( pineapple and strawberry) and the grits based pack bait. Oatmeal produced one good run, and a few nibbles.
  
  
• Bread Balls and Canned Corn
• yellow rubber powerbait eggs