Fishing near Lawrence in Essex County, MA

Check Prices

• wacky rig garry yamamoto
• i used corn
• Pescaviva trout/shrimp/scopex
  Dat food scopex/cherry-choco-nut
  WCB Scopex pop-ups
  various Dat food Doughs
  chickj peas
  Sweet/spicy method mix
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
• White power eggs.
• White Power Eggs
• culprut and gary

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
• A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
• Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
• Sea worm
• Bobber & Shiner.
• Live mackerel
• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• Clams
• fishing bottom with hand dug worms
• Mackerel on a baitrunner.

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
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• 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

Tube Check Prices

• T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
  White Ice Zoom Small tube
  White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
• 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• Tube and huge sea worms
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• use small tube

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 Shiner
• Live Minnows
• Shine on and dropped.
• We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
• 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
• 1st was 1lb 4oz
  2nd was 10in

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• Chartuese w/ Green
• Giant white double bladed buzzbait
• 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
  1-1/2lber on a craw
• Dark Colors
• Spinner Baits
  Jigs (Texas Rig)
• tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
• 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
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• Ribbit frog
• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• 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.
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

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

• Senko and jig
• Classic Texas Rig
• Texas Rigged Weightless.. Deadly when thrown into cover or into structure.
• yamamoto senkos texas rigged or wacky
• My Friend and I used Power and Zoom worms. Caught 8 tiny LMBs. 4 a piece.
• Watermelon/orange-red w/copper flake Senko rigged Texas style
• texas rig
• Senko for bass
  
  Hotdog on the bobbah for cattys
• reeled real slow, weightless
• Wacky riggin senkos

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• 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

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.
• 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
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• 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

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog
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• 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
• Dropshot
• Senko and Dropshot
• 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

Craw Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
• reaction strike jerk in perch
• smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
• Silver shad crank
• KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
• Bluegill squarebill cranks
• Blue gill crankbait
• KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
• Silver body with a black back
• dark colored with red
  Strike king #3

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

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.
• Lake fork magic shad
• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  
• Berkeley GULP!
• yamamoto swimsenko
• white
• Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• 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.
• Sent to the bottom.
• Neon Yellow 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
• 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
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass

Herring Check Prices

• chunks
• Herring Chunk

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms
• Calms - 25" and a 18"
• Clams
  1st was 25"
  2nd was 20"
• Clams
• 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 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
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• gub on worm hook

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball
• Fresh Cut Pogies
• Sea Worms

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• 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.
  
  
• 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.
• again oatmeal
• Canned Corn
• Dog food boilie
• a mixture of ice tips using minnows , power eggs( can't tell you the color) and a mixture of lures .....
• Dat food and chick peas performed well once again. Maple peas had a run but we lost the fish.
• Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.