Fishing near Carlisle in Middlesex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Common Carp
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Batemans Pond
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Nashoba Brook
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Nutting Lake
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Concord River
Concord River

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Sudbury River
Sudbury River

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Walden Pond
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Carlisle Area Fish Species

Recent Carlisle Fishing Reports

Father's Day 2013 on the Concord River Fishing Report Jun 19, 2013

Father's Day 2013 on the Concord River

Concord River/Honey Hole -

Went to the Concord river on Father's Day with my boy. He didn't really want to fish but agreed to go for me. The water was really high. Af...

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5-29-10 Fishing Report Jun 01, 2010

5-29-10

Concord River -

Went out to the concord river for a few hours. caught several keepers. but landed a 5lber, ok it was 4,13 close enough. on a 4" black blue lamina...

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First trip Fishing Report Apr 22, 2013

First trip

North shore -

Headed to concord river on Sunday. ...

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Early Spring Chunks Fishing Report Mar 28, 2013

Early Spring Chunks

Hit the river today for a bit on a miserable day featuring falling temperatures, some rain, and wind. I'm not a big jig guy unless it's pitch...

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First exposure to the Concord River Fishing Report Feb 16, 2012

First exposure to the Concord River

Concord River, Ma -

After a few mornings of ripping a jerkbait, and losing a few jerkbaits, final hit this big boy....

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Sudbury River 6-13-10 Fishing Report Jul 05, 2010

Sudbury River 6-13-10

Sudbury River, MA -

This was my first tournament in the club I recently joined and it was a great experience. It was also my first time using top water frogs. I made th...

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Baits and Tackle used near Carlisle

Check Prices

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  • on a worm :-)
  • Bk?BL wacky Senko fished with current in shadows of the bridge
  • Crawler/ dough ball
  • 1/4 oz jig orange and brown
    with craw trailer
  • drop shoting deep with 4 in senco
  • sweet beaver again
  • sweet beaver
  • swim senkos in the lily pads
  • Rooster Tail

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Large Minnows
  • Large and XL Shiners
  • Bobber & Shiner.
  • Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
  • worm
  • slug
  • used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
    Yellow
    Sherbert
  • 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.
  • Big Shinner

Creature Check Prices

  • 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
  • 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.
  • More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
  • Creature baits and senkos around docks.
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • Green pumpkin sweet beaver
  • My other 5 were:
    2lb 2oz
    two 1-1/2lbers
    two 1lbers

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shine on and dropped.
  • Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
  • 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 ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
  • 1st was 3lb 6oz
    2nd was about 1lb
  • 1st was 1lb 4oz
    2nd was 10in
  • 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
    2nd was 15in
  • 2lb 9oz
    1-1/2lbs
    3-3/4lbs
  • actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook

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.
  • Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
  • FROG
  • 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
  • Popper
  • Zara spook and jitterbug
  • 3/8 oz Hulla Popper
  • 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.
  • Zara Spook.
  • Rapala SkitterPop 7 in brown frog

Lizard Check Prices

  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • green w/ red fleck
  • 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

  • Joes fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
  • Spinner
    Blue-fox
    Yellow
  • I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.
  • 1/2 oz. chartreuse shad rocket
  • 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!
  • Chartreuse spinnah
  • White spinnerbait
  • 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait

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

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, golden, 4" sinking
  • Rapala Original Silver
  • pumkin stick bait, yumm
  • Jerkbait
  • Rapala F05 BCF
    Rebel minnow F07 Silver
  • Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
  • Jerk Bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

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.
  • Zoom (Xoom) Rubber worm
  • Orange was the color of the day
  • the usual suspects this summer, 5 to 6" stick worms
  • Brown
  • 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 and 6" pumkin stick worms
  • 5" stick worms
  • 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.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

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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  • 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
  • Jigs, Worms, Cranks
    Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
    Many shorts caught
  • Drop Shot
  • 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
  • pitching into the pads with a craw
  • My Best 5:
    Two 2lbers
    1-1/2lber
    1-1/4lber
    1lber
  • 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
    3/4lb on Rage Frog

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

Craw Check Prices

  • 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
  • Yum black/blue craw
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
  • Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
  • 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.
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

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.
  • 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

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Silver body with a black back
  • 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.
  • same as before
  • 1 inch strike king minnow
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
  • Strike King 4S Sexy Shad
  • Threadfin Shad Bandit Footloose &
    Bluegill Bandit 100
  • Bandit Series 100 crankbait, CJ Shad color
  • Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
  • Strike King bright yellow minnow

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
  • black and blue with blue craw 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!
  • 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
  • White Booyah swim jig with a White split tail trailer. Slowly crawled over rocks
  • 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 black/blue with a blue trailer
  • pumpkin
  • One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

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

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
  • plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
  • night crawler on a float
  • Kids materials
  • live worm on float
  • on tipups shallow as heck
  • We used Live Night Crawlers and a few Live Moths
  • Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
  • Brass 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
  • Greyish, green, red face
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • rattler
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait

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.

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...
  • Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
  • Dropshotting
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • 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?
  • Dough Ball
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat

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