Fishing near Lincoln in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• swim senkos in the lily pads
• Crawler/ dough ball
• Booyah swim jig, brown with matching yum craw trailer
• senkodark colors,with pink tip
• Spinner bait,chartuse in color
  Senko orange,and white/green
• Bk?BL wacky Senko fished with current in shadows of the bridge
• on a worm :-)
• sweet beaver again
• 1/4 oz jig orange and brown
  with craw trailer
• drop shoting deep with 4 in senco

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Large and XL Shiners
• Large Minnows
• worm
• slug
• 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.
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
• Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
  one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short

Tube Check Prices

• use small tube
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• white tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• minitube flourescent
• tube dark...
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• pumpkin seed tube

Creature Check Prices

• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• 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
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz

Minnow Check Prices

• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
• Dead minnows
• One 2lber
  Two 1-3/4lbers
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
• shiner
• 1st was 3lb 6oz
  2nd was about 1lb
• 2lb 9oz
  1-1/2lbs
  3-3/4lbs
• Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
• 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

• 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.
• 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.
• Rapala SkitterPop 7 in brown frog
• Popper
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog
• BPS Popper, Texas special color.
• Zara Spook.
• 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
• Zara spook and jitterbug
• 3/8 oz Hulla Popper

Lizard Check Prices

• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• green w/ red fleck
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• Red/Red

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
• Two 1lb Pickerel
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
• 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
• Senko
• 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  
• Joes fly
• Green Popper Frog Fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• 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!
• Spinner
  Blue-fox
  Yellow
• I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.
• tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
• My best five was about:
  2-1/2lbs
  2-1/4lbs
  Three 2lbers
  
  Ten more in the 1-3/4lbs to 1lb
• White spinner bait
• war eagle spinnerbait in the "screaming eagle" size which is a 1/2 oz in the size of a 1/4 oz
• BLACK TANDEM WILLOW

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

Streamer Check Prices

• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm
• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• Jerkbait
• Trolling main channel
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• Rapala F05 BCF
  Rebel minnow F07 Silver
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
• Rapala Original Silver
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz 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.
• Meeps - 1/6 oz. Black/Yellow Blade
  - Yellow Tail
• Rooster Tail
• Two 5" Bass
• After not getting much action out of the worms, I decided to toss one of my old mepps black fly spinners out. On the second cast I caught the largest bass I've ever seen down here.
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• All Between 7"-4"
• All between 7 and 8 inches
• One 7" and one 8"

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• shad darts
• Sabiki rig, white

Worm Check Prices

• the usual suspects this summer, 5 to 6" stick worms
• 5" stick worms
• 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.
• 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.
• 5 and 6" pumkin stick worms
• 5" watermelon senko
• 4" texas smoke senko
• Black/Blue Yum Dinger (4)
  Nightcrawler (1)
• Senko 4" green. Wackie.
• Brown

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• 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
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• Storm Shad Minnow
• xps swimbait
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Dark Senkos wacky

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• Crank and buzzbait
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• All between 6" & 9"
• 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
• 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.

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 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
  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
• .
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
• Dropshot Sluggo
• 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
• Drop Shot
• 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
  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.
• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.
• 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
• Blue Fox Vibrax series
• Koppers livetarget frog
  scumfrog little bigfoot frog
  zoom super fluke
• 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
• 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
• Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
• Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  Rapala F-5 Original
• 4" black and blue yum dinger

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
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• Yum black/blue craw

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• SPRO BBZ1
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.

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
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

• Strike King 4S Sexy Shad
• Threadfin Shad Bandit Footloose &
  Bluegill Bandit 100
• Bandit Series 100 crankbait, CJ Shad color
• 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.
• 1 inch strike king minnow
• same as before
• Strike King Pro Series 4S - Sexy Shad
• Rapala Original F-7 - Perch
• Strike King 1XS
• Rapala Original - F-9 - Bleeding Crawdad

Bass Jig Check Prices

• White Booyah swim jig with a White split tail trailer. Slowly crawled over rocks
• 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
• black and blue with blue craw trailer
• SENKO CLEA/ORANGE
• Jig and pig in the bushes and trees
• Pitched a war eagle flippin jig to a sweet wall that always holds bass
• USED GARY YAMAMOTTO WORMS HOOKED WEEDLESS
  SPENT AN HOUR AND A HALF
  PULLED IN WEEDS AND 2 BASS
  THE WEEDS DOWN IN THE COVE HAVE ALMOST COMPLETLY TAKEN OVER SEASON IS ALMOST OVER FOR SHORE FISHING DOWN THERE AND THE FISH HAVE BEEN SMALL FROM THE CHARLES THIS YEAR.
• Black blue 1/4 oz jig. Creature bait Trailor
• Strike King KVD swim jig, Bluegill pattern, with green pumpkin grub trailer.
• Green Football Jig with Green and Chartreuse Skirt

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• silver spoon
• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
• 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!
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• gold little cleo
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• night crawler on a float
• Kids materials
• live worm on float
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• 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
• rattler
• Greyish, green, red face
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• 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
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'

Herring Check Prices

• Herring Chunk

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.

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
• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Dropshotting
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• Dropshot
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

• Just used some more powerbait. I'm thinking next time I may try some mealworms or nightcrawlers. Maybe a few small senkos as well.
• 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.
• Got one on the mop jig just across the current. Got another on the buzzbait a little further out. Got a couple of shorts.
• Dough Ball
• Corn, White bread, vienna sausage.
• SPINNER BAIT
• KVD 1.5, Senkos in black with red flake as well as shad colored.
• None.
• Jigs, Craws, Swimbait, Dropshot, Chatterbait, Spinnerbait
  
  Two were 1-3/4lbs
  Five were 1-1/2lbs
  The rest were 1-1/4lbs and lower
• SENKO GREEN