Fishing near Manchester-by-the-Sea in Essex County, MA

Check Prices

• minnoes NO bobber
• plastic worm
• One on and a spinner, one on a swim senko
• tip ups with shiners
• clams
• KVD 1.5, sunfish colored
• Soft plastic 8" worm
• Cut clams, just like everything else that day.
• Mackerel Chunk
  Berkly Power Bait, 3" Paddle Tail
  Artificial Crab
• Power Eggs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• Mackerel
• Live mackerel
• Sea worm
• live mackerel
• We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
• Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
• Live eels
• Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
  one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
• SEAWORMS

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

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
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• 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

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
• 2lb 9oz
  1-1/2lbs
  3-3/4lbs
• 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
• One 2lber
  Two 1-3/4lbers
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
• hooked through back on tipup
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• 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

• 8" & 10" Largemouth
• This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
• 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.
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
• 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes 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
• Dark Colors
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• same as before
• 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
• Chartreuse spinnah
• White spinnerbait
• Chartruese w/Red Spinnerbait

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in
• 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

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

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

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch

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

Soft Baits Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster tail
• Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

• metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• Squarebill
• smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
• reaction strike jerk in perch
• Strike King Squarebill
• Strike King bright yellow minnow
• Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
• Strike King Pro Series 1
• #3 crank bait dark colored
• dark colored with red
  Strike king #3
• and senkos too

Bass Jig Check Prices

• bucky's/sluggos/worms
• 1st was 1lb 6oz
  2nd was 1-1/4lb
  3rd was 1-3/4lb
• Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
• 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
• Boag Hog Brush Jig
• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
• 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

Wet Fly Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.

Herring Check Prices

• Herring Chunk
• chunks
• Live lining mackeral

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
• Popper fishing off the boat
• Popper Fishing
• Popper fishing
• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

• chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• Sea Worms
• Seaworms
• Fresh Cut Pogies

Other Check Prices

• Hooks baited with clams above a 1lb weight.
• Senkos, jitterbug, and KVD 1.5 sunfish color.
• We used Clams On Jigs with teasers (little grubs)
• Clams fished in 323 feet deep water
• Some people were using jigs, but I had some early success with cut clam, so I stuck with that.
• More cut clams this time. Tried to include darker pieces of stomch, the fish seem to bite more often on those.
• Once again the bait of choice was cut clams. I have learned since last year that the key to using clam bait is to use a small a peice as possible in combination with getting a good peice of stomach.
• The trout tend to hang in the area I marked on the map.
• Both Wollfish were also caught on cut clam baits. These fish are most certainly the hardest fighting specimens I have ever tangled with on one of these trips. The rod bent right over and the spool went slowly as they fought for every foot of the 250 feet they were pulled from.
• Pogy