Fishing near Medford in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• On live dilly worms (mini-crawlers)
• Well i was using my Bass Pro Shop Brawler baitcaster with Sufix 50lb Braid with a Strike King chartreuse spinner bait i caught two of the bass and my friend who isn't the biggest fishing fan (working on it) was using my Pflueger Trion Spinning rod and reel combo with 10lb Trilene Monofilament line with a 5 inch Purple Senko texas rigged with a size 4 Gamakatsu hook. I was throwing the spinner bait to the other bank next to some logs and doing a slow retrieve they both hit in about the middle of the river when i let it sink a bit and started retrieving again, my friend was being impatient so he would use the senko like a swim bait and he got hit about 10 feet from the shoreline.
• Spinners chartreuse/white
• 3 on the Chatterbait
  3lb 6oz
  2lb 9oz
  1-3/4lber
• 5" Senko, watermelon gold flake
• Heddon Swim 'n Image
• soft plastic worm
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• skippyfish swimbait (4", weightless)
• Senkos

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• 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
• SEAWORMS
• Live eels
• live mackerel
• We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
• Sea worm
• Live mackerel

Creature Check Prices

• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• 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
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• 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.

Tube Check Prices

• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• use small tube
• tube dark...
• Tube and huge sea worms
• white tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• minitube flourescent
• 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

Minnow Check Prices

• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
• Dead minnows
• 2lb 9oz
  1-1/2lbs
  3-3/4lbs
• 1st was 3lb 6oz
  2nd was about 1lb
• Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
• One 2lber
  Two 1-3/4lbers
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
• 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
  2nd was 15in
• 1st was 1lb 4oz
  2nd was 10in
• 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• 3/8 oz Hulla Popper
• Zara spook and jitterbug
• 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
• Zara Spook.
• Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
• Top water rappala, and a rooster tail spinner.
• 3/8 oz. jointed, black Jitterbug. Heavy test, mono leader tied onto braid.
• Hula Popper
• BPS Popper, Texas special color.
• 3/8 jointed Jitterbug in black.

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• Senko.
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.
• Senko
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
• 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
• 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
• This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
• 1st was 13" 1lb
  2nd was 6"

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

• Chartruese w/Red Spinnerbait
• White spinner bait, willow leaf style blades. Thrown into herring pods on lower lake
• Brown/Gold w/Red
• White, double silver blade
• same as before
• White spinnerbait
• 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
• Chartreuse spinnah
• 3/8 oz. Booyah Counter Strike Spinnerbait (gold, willow leaf, white/chartreause).
• 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
  1-1/2lber on a craw

Frog Bait Check Prices

• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
• 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
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• 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
• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs

Streamer Check Prices

• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Rapala Original Silver
• Jerkbait
  1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
  2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
  3rd was 8in
• Rapala F05 BCF
  Rebel minnow F07 Silver
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
• rapala
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• Trolling main channel

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  Girlfriend caught her White Perch on a Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Purpledescent
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• All 4 on a 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  Two 6", one 7". one 8"
• 2 6" Bass on a 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1st. 9in
  2nd. 8in
  3rd. 4in
• I couldnt believe this Sally could even bite the hook, lol. So small!!
• Two 7in'ers
• All Between 7 an 8 inches
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 8in
• 1st. 8in
  2nd. 6in

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• Sabiki rig, white
• shad darts

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

• Zoom Magnum Trick Worm (Watermelon/Red Flake) rigged Texas-style with 1/8 ounce bullet weight.
• Zoom trick worm.
• Zoom finesse worm. Poor fish inhaled it and swallowed the hook (notice the blood). Cut the hook as close to barb as I could and let go, but doubt it survived.
• Zoom Trick Worm in Watermelon w/Red Flake.
• I have had great success here using two types of worms: a Zoom Trick Worm and a Gary Yamamoto Kuhuna Cut Tail, both in Watermelon/Red Flake. Fish them Texas-rig, weightless, and fish slowly, letting them fall to the bottom.
• 2 were caught on a 4" Yamamoto cut tail worm in Watermelon and Red flake, the other on a Zoom Trick Worm in Green Pumpkin with Black Flake.
• Berkley PowerBait Original Power Worm in Watermelon Purple/Red Flake.
• Berkley Powerbait in Watermelon and Purple with Red Flake fished Texas-style, weightless.
• Zoom finesse worm
• Senko gets Twin 10" Smallies

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Storm Shad Minnow
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• xps swimbait
• Storm shad mullet color

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• 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.
• 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
• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• 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

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 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
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
• 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
  The rest were in the 8"-11" range
• Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
  1st was a little over a 1lb
  2nd was 12"
  3rd was 2lbs 2oz
• 1 Keeper barely 12"
  The rest were in the 8"-11"range
• Dropshot
• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog
• .

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.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
• Rooster tail
• Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
• Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
• Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  Rapala F-5 Original
• Rapala F-7 Original Silver
• Rapala F-5 Original
• 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
• Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• SPRO BBZ1
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• 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.
• 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

• 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
• 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

• Strike King Pro Series 1
• Strike King bright yellow minnow
• Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad
• Rapala Original Floating Minnow
• Rat-l-trap
• 2 inch minnow shallow diver yellow perch pattern
• Squarebill
• Lipless crankbait rat-l-trap.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Boag Hog Brush Jig
• Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
• 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
• And Senko
  Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
• All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig
  
  1st was 2lb 10oz
  2nd was 1lb 7oz
  3rd was 1lb
• 1st was 1lb 6oz
  2nd was 1-1/4lb
  3rd was 1-3/4lb
• JIG N PIG
  4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
  WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
• 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
• Jig and pig in the bushes and trees

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
• Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• 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.
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• Berkeley GULP!

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly Bugger
• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
• Olive wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• gold little cleo
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
• Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
• 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
• Lil Jake, silver with red dots.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• night crawler on a float
• live worm on float
• Kids materials
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• we used live worms it worked very well

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
• 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
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back

Herring Check Prices

• Herring Chunk
• Live lining mackeral

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
• Popper fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

• chartruce and whit chatter bait
• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

• None.
• KVD 1.5, Senkos in black with red flake as well as shad colored.
• Crust of french bread so it will float
• french bread crust, sitting about 6 inches below the surface
• The trout tend to hang in the area I marked on the map.
• SENKO GREEN
• Natural Berkley Honey worm
• Power Bait
• Powerbait
• Chartreuse power bait. Slip rig with a one once egg sinker and about two feet of leader.