Fishing near Groveland in Essex County, MA

Check Prices

• Our typical Merrimack bucket contains DAt food boilies, chick peas as well as a bread crumb/anise/oats/ferret food ground bait.
• This time around we kept it simple. Chick peas, Dat food and a good anise/pepper ground mix did the trick.
• 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.
  
  
• Power Eggs
• 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

• 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
• Fresh live mackeral
• Sea worm
• Live mackerel
• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• Mackerel

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
• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
• 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
• 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.
• We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
• Live minnows
• Live Minnows
• Live Shiner
• 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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

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.

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• powerbait nuggets
• Jerkbait
  1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
  2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
  3rd was 8in
• Trolling main channel
• Rapala Original Silver

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in
• White Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
• Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Tried Yums And Yamamotos...
  White/Gray,Purple/Black,Tan/Brown,BladeDancer...Finally, old faithful,Watermelon 7"...
• yamamoto senkos texas rigged or wacky
• Senko and jig
• texas rig
• Texas Rigged Weightless.. Deadly when thrown into cover or into structure.
• Classic Texas Rig
• reeled real slow, weightless
• just a pumpkin 7" worm and a gulp worm
• wacky-rigged yum dinger
• char. color senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
• 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

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 1 on a baby bass colored lizard and another on a baby bass colored senko
• Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
• Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!
• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog
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Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
• Spinnerbait
• 6/30 on Rooster Tail
  7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
• 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.
• sluggos
• Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
• Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

• Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
• 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties
• silver,green skirt
• Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

• dark colored with red
  Strike king #3
• and senkos too
• #3 crank bait dark colored
• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
• reaction strike jerk in perch
• Strike King sexy shad 2.5
• Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
• smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
• Silver shad crank
• KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
• bucky's/sluggos/worms
• Black n blue jig n pig
• 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
• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
• 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
• Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
• Boag Hog Brush Jig

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 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.

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom.
• 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.
• 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.
• Sent to the bottom.
• Sent to the bottom, just in deeper water than the first two.
• Sent straight to the bottom and waited it out.

Herring Check Prices

• chunks
• Herring Chunk

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• 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
• Clams
• 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

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• Dropshot
• gub on worm hook
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

• Maple-Banana Maize
  Pescaviva sweet corn
  Chicks
  Dat Food Boilies Scopex
  
• shiners, p-bait, worms, small spinners,spoons u name it
• again oatmeal
• 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
• Bread
• Canned Corn
• Dog food boilie
• i use just plain old oatmeal with a special homemade dippin' sauce
• clam