Fishing near Ayer in Middlesex County, MA

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• Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters
• plastics
• Look for the ramp, it a little one!
• fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
• 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
• 1.5 KVD Crankbait, Yamamoto 4.5 inch Pumpkin Grub, Spinnerbait, Swim Baits, Rubber Worms.
• on a worm :-)
• Bk?BL wacky Senko fished with current in shadows of the bridge
• drop shoting deep with 4 in senco

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Bobber & Shiner.
• Large Minnows
• Large and XL Shiners
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• Big Shinner
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners
• Shinners
• Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
• Pike shinners, again
• 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
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• 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.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver

Tube Check Prices

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

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.
• Medium shiner
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• Kivas
  Shinners
• Not sure exactly what kind of bait fish it was, since I found it wriggling at the water's edge - my guess is a shiner or shad.
• fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
• We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
• Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
• We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!

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.
• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• Popper
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog
• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
• Black jitter bug.
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

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

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
• bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  
• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• red
• strike king 3/8 oz spinner
• 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
• Spinnerbait
• 1/2 oz. chartreuse shad rocket
• Spinner
  Blue-fox
  Yellow
• tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
• I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.
• Spinner green bleeder
• Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Ribbit frog
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• 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.
• 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.
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• 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

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• Trolling main channel
• X-Rap
• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
• 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.
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
• Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
• Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• Silver / Black Roostertail
• Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
• White Rooster Tail
• 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.

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• shad darts

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• 6" Yamamoto Senko black/pink worm
• Sadly my only Bass of the day, and it was to small
• Orange was the color of the day
• Red Senko took it on the fall on the fall
• Zoom (Xoom) Rubber worm
• 5" Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin (Orange) pro senko, fished split shot.
• Green worm
• 6" finesse worm
• 5 inch senko
  cinnamon color
  #4 ewg gamakatsu hook
• 5 inch senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
• Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Dark Senkos wacky

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
• 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
• 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"

Soft Baits Check Prices

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

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• senkos
• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
• 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
• Blue Fox Vibrax series
• 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
• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked
• 4" black and blue yum dinger
• Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.
• 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

Craw Check Prices

• Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
• Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
• crawdads and soft frogs
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• Yum black/blue craw
• 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
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• SPRO BBZ1
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.

Jigs Check Prices

• Our Limit was :
  My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz
  
  1lb and under on the rest
• jig n pig
• 11" on Shaky Head
  15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb

Crankbait Check Prices

• rapala wounded minnow
• Same as Bass 1
• Same details as Bass 1
• Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
• Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
• KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
• strike king sexy shad
• Srike King crank bait, Sexy shad
  dives 2 to 5 feet
• Square Bill
• mann's baby shallow diver chartrause perch pattern. caught all 8 on it!

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• pumpkin
• Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
• 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!
• rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
• One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  
• 1st was 1lb 3oz
  2nd was 2lb 5oz
• brown
• black and blue with blue craw trailer
• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  
• Berkeley GULP!
• 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.
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• Storm 2in Perch

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!
• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
• silver spoon
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies
• Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
• Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
• Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Brass 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook, sent to the bottom.
• Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook sent to the bottom.
• Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
• Dropshot
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball
• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
• 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.
• 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.
  
  
• Corn, White bread, vienna sausage.
• Dough Ball
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
• Bread Balls and Canned Corn
• Velveeta and bread...who knew?