Fishing near Chelmsford in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

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• Rooster Tail
• 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
• i used corn

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Bobber & Shiner.
• Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
• Large Minnows
• Large and XL Shiners
• A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
• A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• worm
• slug
• 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.
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.

Tube Check Prices

• T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
  White Ice Zoom Small tube
  White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
• minitube flourescent
• 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
• use small tube
• white tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
• june bug tube
• pumpkin seed tube

Minnow Check Prices

• Shine on and dropped.
• 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!
• 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 3lb 6oz
  2nd was about 1lb
• 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
  2nd was 15in
• 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
• Black buzzbait with a black blade
• 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
• Zara spook and jitterbug
• 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
• Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
• 3/8 oz Hulla Popper
• Zara Spook.

Lizard Check Prices

• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• green w/ red fleck
• 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.
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• 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
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  

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
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• White spinnerbait
• 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
• same as before
• 1/2 oz. chartreuse shad rocket

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 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
• Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• White Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• silver 1/16 oz single hook 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

Dry Fly Check Prices

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
• Zoom Watermelon Seed
• Orange was the color of the day
• Watermelon/orange-red w/copper flake Senko rigged Texas style
• Zoom (Xoom) Rubber worm
• Senko 4" green. Wackie.
• 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

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

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

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.

Craw Check Prices

• Yum black/blue craw
• 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
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• crawdads and soft frogs
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

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

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

• KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
• 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
• Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
• reaction strike jerk in perch
• smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
• Strike King Minnow in bright yellow

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
• Black n blue jig n pig
• 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!
• 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
• 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
• pumpkin
• 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.

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!
• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
• 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

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• 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!
• "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
• Brass 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• 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
• 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
• 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.

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• swedish pimp
• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

• chartruce and whit chatter bait
• Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
• Daredevil
• Chatterbait
• 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
• Dropshotting
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

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?
• 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
• Corn, White bread, vienna sausage.
• Dat food and chick peas performed well once again. Maple peas had a run but we lost the fish.
• 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.