Fishing near Acton in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• Bk?BL wacky Senko fished with current in shadows of the bridge
• drop shoting deep with 4 in senco
• 1/4 oz jig orange and brown
  with craw trailer
• sweet beaver
• sweet beaver again
• on a worm :-)
• Crawler/ dough ball
• Jitterbugs (black)
• Mostly Spider Grub and Spinner bait
  Our Limit was Chuck's 1lb 14oz, and My 3lb 5oz, 2lb 15oz, 2-1/4lber, and 1-3/4lb for 12.14lbs
  
  I also had two 1lbers, and a 10"er
• swim senkos in the lily pads

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Large Minnows
• Large and XL Shiners
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• Big Shinner
• worm
• slug
• Yellow Perch
• Pike shinners, again
• White suckers
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners

Tube Check Prices

• minitube flourescent
• white tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• use small tube
• pumpkin seed tube
• june bug tube
• June Bug tube
• salt and pepper purple flake tube
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• june bug tubes

Creature Check Prices

• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz
• all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Orange Pumpkin Yama creature... my go-to soft plastic
• Mixed it up every half hour, the Hog was caught on a pumpkin creature with black flake, but both the black with red flake and watermelon with black flake were effective.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver

Minnow Check Prices

• actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
• Shine on and dropped.
• shiner
• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
• Kivas
  Shinners
• Medium shiner
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• One 2lber
  Two 1-3/4lbers
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
• Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Though I have caught a few bass on various lures here so far, topwaters seem to be the most productive by far. It makes sense when you think about. Go down to Fairhaven on a summer night and just try and count the splashes on the surface. I lost count somewhere around 20.
• Popper
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog
• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
• I use frogs, senko, spinnerbaits. jigs. Just about anything will work here if u know what your doing. And have the tackle to get ém out the cabbage cuz its thick and so are they.
• Rapala SkitterPop 7 in brown frog
• Black jitter bug.
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• BPS Popper, Texas special color.
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami

Lizard Check Prices

• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• green w/ red fleck
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• Two 1lb Pickerel
• I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  
• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• 1/2 oz. chartreuse shad rocket
• Spinner
  Blue-fox
  Yellow
• strike king 3/8 oz spinner
• Spinnerbait
• 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
• I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.
• tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
• red
• chatterbait, chartruese and lime colored 1/4 oz
• My best five was about:
  2-1/2lbs
  2-1/4lbs
  Three 2lbers
  
  Ten more in the 1-3/4lbs to 1lb

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 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.
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Ribbit frog
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• Trolling main channel
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• Jerk Bait
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• All morning chain pickerel were hitting my plastic lures, but not taking any hooks. One did manage to bite my power worm in just the right spot however, and gave a nice fight. After that I threw a newly acquired Rapala Husky Jerk around, and got an even nicer pickerel in return! If anyone wants that lure, it's still there, stuck in a tree branch.
• Rapala F05 BCF
  Rebel minnow F07 Silver

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• This was the Bass I caught this morning. He hit the Mepps Agila no 4 with commendable gusto. As usual with this damn lure, it does work, but that big trailing treble sure is a snagfest.
• All Between 7"-4"
• All between 7 and 8 inches
• Silver / Black Roostertail
• One 7" and one 8"
• two 6in, and one 3" Bass
• Two 5" Bass
• Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• shad darts

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Zoom (Xoom) Rubber worm
• 5" Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin (Orange) pro senko, fished split shot.
• Orange was the color of the day
• Senko 4" green. Wackie.
• Brown
• 4" texas smoke senko
• 5 and 6" pumkin stick worms
• the usual suspects this summer, 5 to 6" stick worms
• 5" watermelon senko
• While tossing around a few topwaters and a Crème worm, I also happened to hook into a few Black Crappie. Turns out there's a ton of them in here. You see them jumping all over the place at sunset. Cant say the fight too hard as compared to a Bluegill or Yellow perch of similar size.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• xps swimbait
• Dark Senkos wacky
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• Crank and buzzbait
• 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
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• All between 6" & 9"
• My Biggest 2lb 13oz, followed by a couple 1-1/2lber, a couple 1lbers, and the rest were runts. Mostly shallow cranks, some jig, and senko too.

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Shaky Head
• one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
• Drop Shot
• Jigs, Worms, Cranks
  Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
  Many shorts caught
• pitching into the pads with a craw
• My Best 5:
  Two 2lbers
  1-1/2lber
  1-1/4lber
  1lber
• .
• 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
• 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
• Dropshot Sluggo

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 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.
• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead
• 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake

Craw Check Prices

• 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
• crawdads and soft frogs
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Yum black/blue craw
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Blue Fox Vibrax series
• Bluegill flash 5 inch super fluke
  Bluegill chatterbait with a watermelon pearl lft swimbait
  1/4 ounce blk/blu booyah baby boo jig with a black yum craw papi
  2 inch baby bass bps grub
• Koppers livetarget frog
  scumfrog little bigfoot frog
  zoom super fluke
• Green bigfoot scum frog
  Tan/brown Koppers hollow body frog
  Watermelonseed 5" Zoom super fluke
  Green pumpkin booyah boo jig w/ Rage craw trailer green pumpkin
  bluegill 3/8 oz. chatterbait w/ watermelon red flake swimmin' fluke
• Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.
• senkos
• 4" black and blue yum dinger
• Biggest fish on a Strike King Bluegill Swim Jig
  One on Sexy Shad 4S crankbait
  One on Natural Frog Zara Spook
  Four on Pearl Zoom Salty Super Fluke
• rapala red ratalin rap
• Rooster Tail

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• SPRO BBZ1
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit

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
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

• same as before
• 1 inch strike king minnow
• Using a z-man chatterbait bluegill color with a swimmin super fluke as the trailer. for the other fish i used a livetarget bluegill crankbait.
• mann's baby shallow diver chartrause perch pattern. caught all 8 on it!
• Square Bill
• strike king sexy shad
• Srike King crank bait, Sexy shad
  dives 2 to 5 feet
• rapala wounded minnow
• Rapala Original - F-9 - Minnow
• Strike King 4S Sexy Shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 3lb 4oz
  A couple 3lbers
  A couple 2-3/4blers
  Half a dozen 2-1/2lbers
  A dozen 2lbers
  ...so many fish! I lost count!
• black and blue with blue craw trailer
• pumpkin
• Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
• One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  
• 1st was 1lb 3oz
  2nd was 2lb 5oz
• rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• Black blue 1/4 oz jig. Creature bait Trailor
• SENKO(GREEN),SLUGO(BLUE)

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  
• Berkeley GULP!
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• Storm 2in Perch
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly Bugger
• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
• White wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 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!
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• silver spoon
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies
• Kids materials
• night crawler on a float
• Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
• live worm on float
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Greyish, green, red face
• rattler
• 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
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.
• swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!
• Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

• chartruce and whit chatter bait
• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
• Chatterbait
• Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
• Daredevil

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball
• white rooster tail
• Fresh Cut Pogies

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub

Other Check Prices

• Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
• Dough Ball
• Corn, White bread, vienna sausage.
• I went with a basic powerbait rig. I Tied a barrel swivel on to the end of my 8 pound mono and added about 2.5-3 feet of 6 pound fluorocarbon leader. Just above the swivel was a small 1/8 ounce steel egg sinker. A baited powerbait hook completed the set up.
• Just used some more powerbait. I'm thinking next time I may try some mealworms or nightcrawlers. Maybe a few small senkos as well.
• Velveeta and bread...who knew?
• Got one on the mop jig just across the current. Got another on the buzzbait a little further out. Got a couple of shorts.
• SPINNER BAIT
• Jigs, Craws, Swimbait, Dropshot, Chatterbait, Spinnerbait
  
  Two were 1-3/4lbs
  Five were 1-1/2lbs
  The rest were 1-1/4lbs and lower
• 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.