Hi all,

Ill be in Gloucester, Massachusetts for 5 weeks this summer and I was wondering if you all would help me form a shopping list of what to get.

I currently live in south GA, and use two 7' MH/F spinning setups for all my fishing. I have a bunch of worms, cranks, jigs, etc, the basic stuff and I'm successful with it. I just don't know how much different fishing will be up there.

Ill be fishing *most likely* from the bank, theres a slight possibilty ill have a jon boat. The one lake I know ill be fishing,is deep and rocky. I have no idea how deep, but I know its deeper than my GA lake. The water isnt clear, or at least it wasnt, id say its stained.

The banks have a few clearing that ill fish most of the time, but there are overhanging trees and i may be in the bushes so i plan on getting a 6' or so rod.

First question: I can only afford one rod, so im going to get a spinning rod, in either M, MH, or ML, Fast. Which do you think would be the best for all around MA fishing for bass?

Second: I planned on just buying a bag of 194 senkos, a bag of 194 fat ikas, a shallow crank, a deep crank, a 1/4 black/blue jig, a spinnerbait,a topwater plug, smae as id buy for GA. Should i just do that or should I downsize my lures and tackle?

Any other northern fishing advice would be helpful.

that stuff you have sounds like it will work just fine up here. i'd say if you only had 1 rod and were fishing from the bank a M would be your best bet, but that's all based on preferance and techniques you prefer.

The only thing i would add is some kind of frog. most of the lakes up here are natural, and many of them are ringed by lilly pads in the summer. A frog is going to let you fish those pads, something like a horny toad will give options on above the pads or sinking it below them.

I don't see any real need to downsize for up here. It never hurts to have some smaller stuff in case the bite gets tough, but that goes for anywhere in the country.

hope this helps

IMO you can't go wrong with jigs and dark plastics up here.