Fishing near Lynnfield in Essex County, MA

Check Prices

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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Sea worm
• Live mackerel
• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• 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.
• 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
• Live eels
• SEAWORMS
• live mackerel

Creature Check Prices

• 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.
• 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.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits

Tube Check Prices

• 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
• 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...
• white tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner

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
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
• hooked through back on tipup

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• 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 .
• Baby bass lizard
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• Red/Red

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-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

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.
• White, double silver blade
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• 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.
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• Ribbit frog

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
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• Smaller bass on a 4" rubber worm
  Lunker on a red inline spinner
• rooster tail
• 1st. 5in
  2nd. 10in 8oz
• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• 4" and 5" Sunfish

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Senko
• 2 inch neon rubber worm
• Senko and froggys
• Soft Plastic
• Five between 12"-8"
  One was 14" 1lb 1oz
  Last was 13-1/2" 1lb
• 4 Bass around 10", and 1 was 1lb
• Four in the 10-11 inch range
• 1st was 12" 3-4lb
  2nd was 13" 14oz
• 4inch black senko wacky rigged.
• Wacky
  1st was 1-1/4lbs
  2nd was 1-1/8lbs
  3rd was 10"
  4th was 15" 1-3/4lbs

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
• Storm Shad Minnow

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.
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• 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
• 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

• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog
• Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!
• 1 on a baby bass colored lizard and another on a baby bass colored senko
• Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
• .
• 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
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"

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
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Yum black/blue craw
• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
• 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
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• 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.

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.
• 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
• 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
• Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.
• Blue Fox Vibrax series

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
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.

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
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties
• Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
• 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

• 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
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad
• Rapala Original Floating Minnow

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
• 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
• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
• 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
• And Senko
  Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
• Black n blue jig n pig

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

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

• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• gold little cleo

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• 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
• Greyish, green, red face

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.
• night crawler on a float
• Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
• on tipups shallow as heck
• live worm on float
• Kids materials
• We used Live Night Crawlers and a few Live Moths
• worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies
• 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.

Herring Check Prices

• Herring Chunk
• chunks

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight
• Clams
• Calms
• chunked herrin
• 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
• Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• gub on worm hook
• Dropshotting
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!

Live Baits Check Prices

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

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

• The trout tend to hang in the area I marked on the map.
• Senkos, jitterbug, and KVD 1.5 sunfish color.
• french bread crust, sitting about 6 inches below the surface
• Crust of french bread so it will float
• None.
• KVD 1.5, Senkos in black with red flake as well as shad colored.
• Velveeta and bread...who knew?
• 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.
  
  
• Pogy