Fishing near Billerica in Middlesex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Bluegill, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Common Carp
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Concord River in the Rain near Billerica

Concord River in the Rain

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River St Bridge near Billerica

River St Bridge

Poison Ivy all over the place. Now that I look at the map, it says it's conservation land...does that mean I'm not supposed to be there? People fish off the bridge 30 yards away all the time, so it should be ok.
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Top Fishing Spots near Billerica

Nutting Lake
Nutting Lake

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Silver Lake
Silver Lake

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Mill Pond Reservoir
Mill Pond Reservoir

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Ames Pond
Ames Pond

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Concord River
Concord River

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Shawsheen River
Shawsheen River

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Billerica Area Fish Species

Recent Billerica Fishing Reports

Concord River Carp in the Rain Fishing Report Sep 13, 2014

Concord River Carp in the Rain

Billerica, Ma -

Good outing on the Concord river in Billerica in the rain this Saturday. Pulled in several Bullhead Catfish, a Bluegill (surprisingly) and a Carp on ...

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First catfish ever, followed by 5 more Fishing Report Jul 09, 2012

First catfish ever, followed by 5 more

Concord River, Billerica MA -

I got out of work an hour early, so I decided to do some shore fishing from this poison ivy covered spot I've been going to on my lunch breaks.

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0 Catfish, 4 Carp, 1 fat snake Fishing Report Oct 18, 2013

0 Catfish, 4 Carp, 1 fat snake

Concord River, Billerica -

I had two hours from when I dropped the kids off at school, until I had to be at work, so I hit the Concord River specifically looking for Catfish. I...

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First trip to Nutting Lake Fishing Report Aug 23, 2010

First trip to Nutting Lake

Nutting Lake, Billerica, MA -

I wanted to find a new bass hole that was local to me, so I did some searching and seeked some advice from the great users of this site. I ended up tr...

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Nuttings Pond March 7, 2012 Fishing Report Mar 07, 2012

Nuttings Pond March 7, 2012

Nuttings Pond, Billerica Ma -

I got about an hour and a half on the water. I've never been to this pond before. It's small, shallow and weedy. I started off throwing a 1...

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Labor Day weekend fishing with Bobby,Morefish,Xl Fishing Report Sep 01, 2013

Labor Day weekend fishing with Bobby,Morefish,Xl

Cape Cod/Local spot -

Well this weekend def wasnt numbers for us but we did get some quaility 3lb12oz larry was the biggest then a 3lb10oz smallie 3.5 smallie 3.4 smallie a...

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Baits and Tackle used near Billerica

Check Prices

  • Won't let me add photo
  • on a worm :-)
  • Tube
  • Pop-R
  • Rage Trout Swimbait
  • Strike King lipless crank bait
  • Gulp crappie nibbles
  • Bk?BL wacky Senko fished with current in shadows of the bridge
  • hotdoggin on a bobber with some baconnn $$$
  • Rooster Tail

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Large Minnows
  • Bobber & Shiner.
  • Large and XL Shiners
  • Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
  • 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.
  • A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • Sea worm
  • Live mackerel

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
  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • Creature Bait on Shakey Head
  • Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
  • 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

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
  • Shine on and dropped.
  • One 2lber
    Two 1-3/4lbers
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
  • 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
  • Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
  • 1st was 1lb 4oz
    2nd was 10in
  • 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
    2nd was 15in
  • 1st was 3lb 6oz
    2nd was about 1lb
  • 2lb 9oz
    1-1/2lbs
    3-3/4lbs
  • A Couple 2-1/4lbers
    Ten 2lbers
    A Couple 1-3/4lbers
    The rest between 1-1/2lbs and 1lb

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
  • FROG
  • Black buzzbait with a black blade
  • 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
  • Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
  • 3/8 oz Hulla Popper
  • Zara Spook.
  • MS Slammer hitch

Lizard Check Prices

  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • green w/ red fleck
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
  • 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.
  • Baby bass lizard
  • 8" Pumpkinseed

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
  • 1st was 13" 1lb
    2nd was 6"

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Joes fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
  • I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.
  • Spinner
    Blue-fox
    Yellow
  • Fire Tiger, Double Willow
  • Chartreuse spinnah
  • 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
  • White spinnerbait
  • same as before
  • See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
  • 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
    1-1/2lber on a craw

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with 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.
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
  • Ribbit 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
  • Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

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

  • silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
  • Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
  • White Rooster Tail
  • Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
  • Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
  • Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
  • Gold Vibrafox #2
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 1st. 5in
    2nd. 10in 8oz
  • 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

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • shad darts
  • Sabiki rig, white

Terrestrial Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

  • Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

  • BPS shakey head worm, 2/0 Wide Gap hook
  • Watermelon/orange-red w/copper flake Senko rigged Texas style
  • Zoom Watermelon Seed
  • Senko 4" green. Wackie.
  • Wacky riggin senkos
  • Senko for bass

    Hotdog on the bobbah for cattys
  • 6" Producto Tournament Worm, Color:Junebug (http://www.productolure.com/tournamentworm.php) on a 1/8 oz jig head
  • triple hooked
  • 6in on a Rapala Floater
    7in on a Rooster Tail
    13in 1lb on senko
  • Wacky
    1st was 1-1/4lbs
    2nd was 1-1/8lbs
    3rd was 10"
    4th was 15" 1-3/4lbs

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • 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"
  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
  • Black worm with bright yellow tail
  • Storm Shad Minnow

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.
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
    2 on Rooster Tail
  • 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
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • 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.

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.
  • Rubber worms frogs,spinners
    All worked
  • Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
  • senkos
  • 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

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

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
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Silver body with a black back
  • smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
  • reaction strike jerk in perch
  • Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
  • Strike King bright yellow minnow
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
  • Squarebill
  • 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

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

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!
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
  • 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
  • Lake fork magic shad
  • 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
  • Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 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
  • on tipups shallow as heck
  • We used Live Night Crawlers and a few Live Moths
  • night crawler on a float
  • Kids materials
  • live worm on float
  • Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Silver/Copper 2-Way spinner hook.

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
  • 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
  • Greyish, green, red face
  • rattler
  • 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.

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

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
  • Dropshotting
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!

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

  • Velveeta and bread...who knew?
  • Corn, White bread, vienna sausage.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bread Balls and Canned Corn
  • Dat food and chick peas performed well once again. Maple peas had a run but we lost the fish.
  • 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

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