Fishing near Andover in Essex County, MA

Check Prices

• wacky rig garry yamamoto
• i used corn
• Power Eggs
• 1lb 13oz on a creature bait on a jig head
  2-1/4lber on a Squarebill
• This time around we kept it simple. Chick peas, Dat food and a good anise/pepper ground mix did the trick.
• Our typical Merrimack bucket contains DAt food boilies, chick peas as well as a bread crumb/anise/oats/ferret food ground bait.
• Chicks Peas are slamming them right now. Pescaviva corn trout pellet flavored is also producing. We always have DAT food as well and Maple peas
• We used a variety of things. Chick peas and Dat food are staples now, never do I go anywhere without them. This trip I added Pescaviva "trout pellet" flavored sweet corn, Wacker Bait Pips in Tutti Fruity. The winning combo of the day was 1 chick on top of two sweet corn on a long hair.
  
  
• Pescaviva trout/shrimp/scopex
  Dat food scopex/cherry-choco-nut
  WCB Scopex pop-ups
  various Dat food Doughs
  chickj peas
  Sweet/spicy method mix
• Rooster Tail

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
• A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
• Sea worm
• Live mackerel
• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
• Bobber & Shiner.
• Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
• Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.
• Seaworms on a custom flounder rig

Creature Check Prices

• 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.
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz

Tube Check Prices

• T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
  White Ice Zoom Small tube
  White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• Tube and huge sea worms
• use small tube
• minitube flourescent
• white tube

Minnow Check Prices

• Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
• hooked through back on tipup
• We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
• 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
• 1st was 1lb 4oz
  2nd was 10in
• One 2lber
  Two 1-3/4lbers
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
• 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
  2nd was 15in
• Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
• A Couple 2-1/4lbers
  Ten 2lbers
  A Couple 1-3/4lbers
  The rest between 1-1/2lbs and 1lb
• 1st was 3lb 6oz
  2nd was about 1lb

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
• FROG
• Black buzzbait with a black blade
• MS Slammer hitch
• Jitterbug
• Bone Zara spook
• Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
• 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
• Zara spook and jitterbug
• 3/8 oz Hulla Popper

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 8" & 10" Largemouth
• 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-Go
• Senko
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
• 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
• Senko.
• 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
  1-1/2lber on a craw
• 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
• Chartreuse spinnah
• White spinnerbait
• same as before
• White, double silver blade
• tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
• Chartuese w/ Green

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Streamer Check Prices

• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Trolling main channel
• Jerkbait
  1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
  2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
  3rd was 8in
• Rapala Original Silver
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• Rapala F05 BCF
  Rebel minnow F07 Silver
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
• powerbait nuggets
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• White Rooster Tail
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in
• Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
• Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• shad darts
• Sabiki rig, white
• Non-Keeper

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Senko for bass
  
  Hotdog on the bobbah for cattys
• Wacky riggin senkos
• Watermelon/orange-red w/copper flake Senko rigged Texas style
• Texas Rigged Weightless.. Deadly when thrown into cover or into structure.
• Classic Texas Rig
• yamamoto senkos texas rigged or wacky
• Senko and jig
• Zoom Watermelon Seed
• My Friend and I used Power and Zoom worms. Caught 8 tiny LMBs. 4 a piece.
• Senko and froggys

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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.
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait
• We each caught 5 Keepers each.
  Best 5 were of Chuck's 4lber, 3lber, 2-3/4lber, and My 4lber, and 1-3/4lber.
  
  I also had three 1-1/4lbers
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• All between 6" & 9"
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• Crank and buzzbait
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog
• .
• 1 on a baby bass colored lizard and another on a baby bass colored senko
• Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!
• Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
• Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot
  
  Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)
  
  
• Chatterbait, Swimbait, Jig, Dropshot
  My Limit was 2lb 6oz, 2lb 5oz, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 7oz, and 1lb 6oz
  
  what didn't make the cut:
  two 1lb 6oz
  half a dozen between 1-1/4lb & 1lb
  one 14oz
  one short
• 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
  The rest were in the 8"-11" range
• Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
  1st was a little over a 1lb
  2nd was 12"
  3rd was 2lbs 2oz
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.
• 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.

Craw Check Prices

• Yum black/blue craw
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
• 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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• 4" black and blue yum dinger
• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked
• Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
• Rooster tail
• 6/30 on Rooster Tail
  7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
• Rooster Tail
• Spinnerbait
• Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.
  
  Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
• 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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• SPRO BBZ1
• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

• metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

• Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties
• Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
• 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
• silver,green skirt

Crankbait Check Prices

• reaction strike jerk in perch
• smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
• Silver body with a black back
• Squarebill
• Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
• Strike King bright yellow minnow
• KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
• Silver shad crank
• KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Black n blue jig n pig
• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
• 1st was 1lb 6oz
  2nd was 1-1/4lb
  3rd was 1-3/4lb
• All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig
  
  1st was 2lb 10oz
  2nd was 1lb 7oz
  3rd was 1lb
• same jig as before
• 3/8 ounce green pumpkin Boag Hog Baits jig that I added rattles to and a black/redflake chigger craw trailer
• Boag Hog Brush Jig
• Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
• 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
• 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
• Lake fork magic shad
• yamamoto swimsenko
• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  
• Berkeley GULP!
• Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• on tipups shallow as heck
• We used Live Night Crawlers and a few Live Moths
• Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
• worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom... and another surprise to pull this guy off the bottom.
• Sent to the bottom, as far into the drop off as I could cast.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom.
• Silver 2-way spinner hook.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. Since Pickerel don't usually bottom feed, and didn't hit on the retrieve, I was a bit surprised...
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. To be expected with Catfish.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• Srike King 3/4 oz red eyed shad,gold black back.7' mojo bass -st.croix crank rod with Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb.Stop and rip out of surmerged grass.
• Greyish, green, red face
• rattler

Herring Check Prices

• Herring Chunk
• chunks

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight
• Clams
• Calms
• Calms - 25" and a 18"
• Clams
  1st was 25"
  2nd was 20"
• Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
• Calms - All Between 10"-12"
• Calms - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!
• Popper
• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.

Blade Bait Check Prices

• chartruce and whit chatter bait
• Daredevil
• Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.

Grub Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• gub on worm hook
• Dropshotting
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball
• Fresh Cut Pogies
• Sea Worms
• Seaworms
• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• Dat food and chick peas performed well once again. Maple peas had a run but we lost the fish.
• Sucker Punch Bait Lead Free Micro Shad dart, pink 1/32 oz, pink with silver flash
• i use just plain old oatmeal with a special homemade dippin' sauce
• Our sualy bait bucket include feed corn, maple peas, chick peas, dat food boilies, luncheon meat and a good ground/chum mix.
  
  Our Ground/chum mixes tend to include bread crumb, oats, cream corn, birdseed
  
  Chick peas were tearing them up here. Few off Dat food as well but the Chicks were definitely looked for and taken readily.
  
  
• Much like many of the spots along the Merrimack we have been hitting. Chick peas and Dat food have constantly out-performed everything else.
• again oatmeal
• Canned Corn
• Dog food boilie
• a mixture of ice tips using minnows , power eggs( can't tell you the color) and a mixture of lures .....
• We used Chartreuse Powerbait Nuggets with a 3/4 ounce weight.