Fishing near Danvers in Essex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Common Carp, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Striped Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 166
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 1088
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First Smallmouth near Danvers

First Smallmouth

This was the smallie we kept antagonizing. Little fella went right back in and was none the worse for wear.
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Smallie #2 near Danvers

Smallie #2

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Top Fishing Spots near Danvers

Putnamville Reservoir
Putnamville Reservoir

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Salem/beverly Reservoir
Salem/beverly Reservoir

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Ipswich Access - Wading
Ipswich Access - Wading

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White Fuel Bridge
White Fuel Bridge

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Ipswitch Canal
Ipswitch Canal

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Wenham Lake
Wenham Lake

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Danvers Area Fish Species

Recent Danvers Fishing Reports

Friday Night Fights!!- Danvers Fishing Report May 03, 2011

Friday Night Fights!!- Danvers

North Shore -

Stopped at one of my spots we usually fish by boat on the way home from work. Only had about 30 - 40 feet of line on my reel (on the way to Dicks aft...

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Sunday at Putnam res Fishing Report Apr 27, 2014

Sunday at Putnam res

Putnamville reservoir -

Rainy and raw this morning. Took the canoe out with my buddy. Caught a total of 6 sm mouths, 1 lg mouth, and 1 pickerel. All were caught on crankbaits...

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Pre Mother's Day Sneak Out Fishing Report May 10, 2011

Pre Mother's Day Sneak Out

Putnamville -

Went out early Sunday morning. Much colder then I wanted it to be. Tried fishing the side where the wind usually comes from. Wouldn't you know ...

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Putnamville Reservoir Fishing Report May 19, 2015

Putnamville Reservoir

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*Edited 5/20/15
Took my buddy fishing this past Sunday, decided to hit up the Putnamville Reservoir again, same spot that I had a little luck at be...

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Putnamville Resevoir Fishing Report May 11, 2015

Putnamville Resevoir

Danvers, MA -

Started the morning with a quick trip to Dick's Sporting Goods to get a new rod for my fiancee. Couldn't help but pick up a nice new Ugly Stic...

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First Ice Fish of 2012 Fishing Report Jan 20, 2012

First Ice Fish of 2012

Northshore -

Got out today for a few hours after work. Had 5 to 6inches of ice. Ended up catching 2 bass on 4 flags. The biggest one was 3.14lbs. It felt good ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Danvers

Check Prices

  • Soft plastic 8" worm
  • KVD 1.5, sunfish colored
  • 1lb 13oz on a creature bait on a jig head
    2-1/4lber on a Squarebill
  • Power Eggs
  • I USE ORANGE SPINNER
  • bomber shad 6-8 feet
    5 in senks
    lake fork magic shad
  • Pop-R
  • Tube
  • Rage Trout Swimbait
  • Strike King lipless crank bait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Sea worm
  • Live mackerel
  • Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
  • Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
  • Mackerel
  • Live eels
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • live mackerel
  • 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.

Tube Check Prices

  • 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
  • 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
  • use small tube
  • tube dark...

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • MS Slammer hitch
  • Jitterbug
  • Xcalibur jimmy
  • Black buzzbait with a black blade
  • FROG
  • Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
  • Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
  • 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
  • Zara spook and jitterbug
  • 3/8 oz Hulla Popper

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 8" & 10" Largemouth
  • 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
  • Senko
  • Senko.
  • 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
  • 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Joes fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
    1-1/2lber on a craw
  • See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
  • Fire Tiger, Double Willow
  • White, double silver blade
  • 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
  • same as before
  • Chartreuse spinnah
  • White spinnerbait
  • Chartruese w/Red Spinnerbait
  • Brown/Gold w/Red

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.
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • 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

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

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
  • Rapala F05 BCF
    Rebel minnow F07 Silver
  • Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
  • rapala
  • Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
    3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
  • pumkin stick bait, yumm

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
  • 1st. 12in 12oz
    2nd. 11.5in 10oz
    3rd. 11.5in 9oz
  • 1st. 7in
    2nd. 7 3/4in
  • silver 1/16 oz single hook 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
  • 4" and 5" Sunfish

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Sabiki rig, white
  • shad darts
  • Non-Keeper

Nymph Check Prices

  • Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

  • char. color senko
  • Gulp red "bloodworms"
  • Two 1lbers, and 4 others between 10"-12" off docks, and oeverhanging brush
  • Soft Plastic
  • I caught a 1-1/4lb and a 2-1/4lb Largemouth
  • Shakey Head
    1st was 1lb 5oz
    2nd was 1lb
  • Shakey Head
  • 2 inch neon rubber worm
  • 5 inch dinger
  • Senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm

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
  • 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
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
  • 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
    The rest were in the 8"-11" range
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range

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.

Craw Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Rooster tail
  • Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
  • 4" black and blue yum dinger
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
  • Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
  • 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
  • 6/30 on Rooster Tail
    7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
  • Spinnerbait

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • SPRO BBZ1
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown

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
  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

    Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Squarebill
  • smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
  • reaction strike jerk in perch
  • Strike King bright yellow minnow
  • Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
  • Strike King Pro Series 1
  • Silver body with a black back
  • Shiners are cheating here...
    Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
  • Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
  • Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 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
  • Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
  • 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
  • Boag Hog Brush Jig
  • Black n blue jig n pig
  • Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
  • bucky's/sluggos/worms
  • And Senko
    Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

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
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
  • Berkeley GULP!
  • Reaction Innovations
    4.5" Little Dipper
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

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
  • Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
  • night crawler on a float
  • live worm on float
  • 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.

Herring Check Prices

  • Herring Chunk
  • chunks

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight
  • Clams
  • chunked herrin
  • Calms
  • Calms - 25" and a 18"
  • Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
  • Clams
    1st was 25"
    2nd was 20"
  • Calms - All Between 10"-12"
  • Calms - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds

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 Fishing
  • Popper fishing off the boat

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

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

  • Sea Worms
  • Fresh Cut Pogies
  • Seaworms
  • Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub

Other Check Prices

  • Senkos, jitterbug, and KVD 1.5 sunfish color.
  • The trout tend to hang in the area I marked on the map.
  • french bread crust, sitting about 6 inches below the surface
  • Crust of french bread so it will float
  • Sucker Punch Bait Lead Free Micro Shad dart, pink 1/32 oz, pink with silver flash
  • 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.

  • Maple-Banana Maize
    Pescaviva sweet corn
    Chicks
    Dat Food Boilies Scopex
  • again oatmeal
  • None.
  • Pogy

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