Fishing near Boxford in Essex County, MA

Check Prices

• Power Eggs
• 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
• White power eggs.
• White Power Eggs
• culprut and gary
• Used a rattle trap (not sure if there's another name for it. Couldn't find it listed. I'm pretty new still.) I reeled it pretty fast, pause and let it come up a bit and so on. Bass hit it hard about 12 feet from bridge, on right side under some trees.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Sea worm
• Live mackerel
• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• Clams
• A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
• A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
• Mackerel on a baitrunner.
• fishing bottom with hand dug worms
• Mackerel
• Fresh live mackeral

Tube Check Prices

• 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
• T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
  White Ice Zoom Small tube
  White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
• Tube and huge sea worms
• 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

Creature Check Prices

• 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.
• Orange Pumpkin Yama creature... my go-to soft plastic
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• 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
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• 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.

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• Baby bass lizard
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• green w/ red fleck
• hit while sinking
• 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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• 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.

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
  2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
  3rd was 8in
• Rapala Original Silver
• Trolling main channel
• powerbait nuggets
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• Rapala F05 BCF
  Rebel minnow F07 Silver
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• White Rooster Tail
• Smaller bass on a 4" rubber worm
  Lunker on a red inline spinner
• rooster tail
• 1st. 5in
  2nd. 10in 8oz
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail

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

• yamamoto senkos texas rigged or wacky
• Texas Rigged Weightless.. Deadly when thrown into cover or into structure.
• Classic Texas Rig
• Senko and jig
• char. color senko
• Tried Yums And Yamamotos...
  White/Gray,Purple/Black,Tan/Brown,BladeDancer...Finally, old faithful,Watermelon 7"...
• Senko for bass
  
  Hotdog on the bobbah for cattys
• Wacky riggin senkos
• texas rig
• Shakey Head
  1st was 1lb 5oz
  2nd was 1lb

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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
• Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait
• 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
• 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
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 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
• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog
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• 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
• Drop Shot
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"

Craw Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
• SPRO BBZ1
• 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"
• silver,green skirt

Crankbait Check Prices

• reaction strike jerk in perch
• smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
• dark colored with red
  Strike king #3
• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
• Squarebill
• #3 crank bait dark colored
• and senkos too
• Silver shad crank
• KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
• Bluegill squarebill cranks

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Black n blue jig n pig
• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
• bucky's/sluggos/worms
• 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
• 3/8 ounce green pumpkin Boag Hog Baits jig that I added rattles to and a black/redflake chigger craw trailer
• same jig as before
• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
• Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
• Boag Hog Brush Jig

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 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
• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
• Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
• Berkeley GULP!
• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.
• on tipups shallow as heck
• We used Live Night Crawlers and a few Live Moths
• 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.
• Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.

Herring Check Prices

• chunks
• Herring Chunk

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• 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.
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• 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.

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• Dropshot
• gub on worm hook
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball
• 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

Other Check Prices

• Maple-Banana Maize
  Pescaviva sweet corn
  Chicks
  Dat Food Boilies Scopex
  
• 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.
  
  
• Sucker Punch Bait Lead Free Micro Shad dart, pink 1/32 oz, pink with silver flash
• again oatmeal
• shiners, p-bait, worms, small spinners,spoons u name it
• Canned Corn
• Dog food boilie
• i use just plain old oatmeal with a special homemade dippin' sauce
• Much like many of the spots along the Merrimack we have been hitting. Chick peas and Dat food have constantly out-performed everything else.
• Bread