Fishing near Bedford in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• Won't let me add photo
• on a worm :-)
• Bk?BL wacky Senko fished with current in shadows of the bridge
• Crawler/ dough ball
• Tube
• Pop-R
• Strike King lipless crank bait
• Rage Trout Swimbait
• Gulp crappie nibbles
• swim senkos in the lily pads

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Large Minnows
• Large and XL Shiners
• 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.
• worm
• slug
• Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
• Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
  one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
• SEAWORMS
• Bobber & Shiner.

Creature Check Prices

• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
• 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.
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.

Tube Check Prices

• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• use small tube
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• minitube flourescent
• white tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• tube dark...
• T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
  White Ice Zoom Small tube
  White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
• Tube and huge sea worms
• 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig

Minnow Check Prices

• 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
• 1st was 3lb 6oz
  2nd was about 1lb
• 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
• 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
  2nd was 15in
• 1st was 1lb 4oz
  2nd was 10in
• 2lb 9oz
  1-1/2lbs
  3-3/4lbs
• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
• A Couple 2-1/4lbers
  Ten 2lbers
  A Couple 1-3/4lbers
  The rest between 1-1/2lbs and 1lb

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.
• 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
• Zara spook and jitterbug
• 3/8 oz Hulla Popper
• Zara Spook.
• Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
• 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
• BPS Popper, Texas special color.
• Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  
• Joes fly
• Green Popper Frog Fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.
• tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
• Spinner
  Blue-fox
  Yellow
• Chartreuse spinnah
• White spinnerbait
• 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
• same as before
• Golden Shiner spinnerbait and black buzzbait. Big fish on the spinnerbait.
• war eagle spinnerbait
• caught 2 on a booyah spinner,
  1 on a booyah boo jig, 1on 5 in senko. This is not a booyah commercial, lol!

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

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.
• 1st. 5in
  2nd. 10in 8oz
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• 4" and 5" Sunfish
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  Girlfriend caught her White Perch on a Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Purpledescent
• 1st. 4in
  2nd. 5in
  3rd. 7in
  4th 7in
• 3 on a 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  7 1/2in, 9in, and 10.25in
• 1st. 9in
  2nd. 8in
  3rd. 4in
• All Between 7 an 8 inches

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• shad darts
• Sabiki rig, white

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• BPS shakey head worm, 2/0 Wide Gap hook
• Senko 4" green. Wackie.
• the usual suspects this summer, 5 to 6" stick worms
• 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.
• 5" stick worms
• Black/Blue Yum Dinger (4)
  Nightcrawler (1)
• 5 and 6" pumkin stick worms
• 6" Producto Tournament Worm, Color:Junebug (http://www.productolure.com/tournamentworm.php) on a 1/8 oz jig head
• And here it is. My first Northern Pike! Those 5 inch Yamasenkos never seem to let me down. Thankfully I had a decent hookset, so the lack of a leader did not pose a problem.
• triple hooked

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• 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
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• Crank and buzzbait
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• All between 6" & 9"
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• 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

Soft Baits Check Prices

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• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog
• 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
• 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
• Drop Shot
• 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.
• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• 4" black and blue yum dinger
• 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
• Koppers livetarget frog
  scumfrog little bigfoot frog
  zoom super fluke
• 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
• 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
• Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
• Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
• Rooster Tail

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• SPRO BBZ1
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• 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.
• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• 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

• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig
• 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
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

• Silver body with a black back
• Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
• Strike King bright yellow 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.
• 1 inch strike king minnow
• same as before
• Strike King 4S Sexy Shad
• Threadfin Shad Bandit Footloose &
  Bluegill Bandit 100
• Bandit Series 100 crankbait, CJ Shad color
• Strike King Pro Series 1

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
• 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
• 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
• black and blue with blue craw trailer
• White Booyah swim jig with a White split tail trailer. Slowly crawled over rocks
• Boag Hog Brush Jig
• All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig
  
  1st was 2lb 10oz
  2nd was 1lb 7oz
  3rd was 1lb
• 1st was 1lb 6oz
  2nd was 1-1/4lb
  3rd was 1-3/4lb
• Jig and pig in the bushes and trees

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Berkeley GULP!
• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
• Lake fork magic shad
• 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
• yamamoto swimsenko
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• Storm 2in Perch

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• night crawler on a float
• Kids materials
• live worm on float
• 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
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• 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
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• rattler
• Greyish, green, red face
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• 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

Herring Check Prices

• Herring Chunk

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

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!!!
• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
• Popper
• Popper Fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

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

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

• Corn, White bread, vienna sausage.
• Velveeta and bread...who knew?
• Just used some more powerbait. I'm thinking next time I may try some mealworms or nightcrawlers. Maybe a few small senkos as well.
• 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.
• Dough Ball
• Got one on the mop jig just across the current. Got another on the buzzbait a little further out. Got a couple of shorts.
• KVD 1.5, Senkos in black with red flake as well as shad colored.
• None.
• 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.