Fishing near Melrose in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• bomber shad 6-8 feet
  5 in senks
  lake fork magic shad
• I USE ORANGE SPINNER
• Soft plastic 8" worm
• Corn , Worms...
• 1lb 13oz on a creature bait on a jig head
  2-1/4lber on a Squarebill
• 5" Senko, watermelon gold flake
• Heddon Swim 'n Image
• soft plastic worm
• skippyfish swimbait (4", weightless)
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad

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

Creature Check Prices

• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• 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 Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.

Tube Check Prices

• 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
• Tube and huge sea worms
• 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
• 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
• minitube flourescent

Minnow Check Prices

• A Couple 2-1/4lbers
  Ten 2lbers
  A Couple 1-3/4lbers
  The rest between 1-1/2lbs and 1lb
• 2lb 9oz
  1-1/2lbs
  3-3/4lbs
• 1st was 3lb 6oz
  2nd was about 1lb
• 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
  2nd was 15in
• 1st was 1lb 4oz
  2nd was 10in
• Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
• 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
• 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
• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• green w/ red fleck
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple 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
• Baby bass lizard
• Red/Red

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 8" & 10" Largemouth
• 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
• 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
• 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

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

Frog Bait Check Prices

• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• 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.
• 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
  1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
  2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
  3rd was 8in
• Jerkbait
• Rapala Original Silver
• 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

• Smaller bass on a 4" rubber worm
  Lunker on a red inline spinner
• rooster tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 5in
  2nd. 10in 8oz
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• 4" and 5" Sunfish
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  Girlfriend caught her White Perch on a Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Purpledescent
• 1st. 9in
  2nd. 8in
  3rd. 4in

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

• 4inch black senko wacky rigged.
• Red zoom worm with green flecks, white spinnerbait, 1/8 oz.
• Pumpkin Senko 5" on a texas rig.
• 5" Senko baby bass - wacky - unweighted - red hook
• Soft Plastic
• 2 inch neon rubber worm
• 1st was 12" 3-4lb
  2nd was 13" 14oz
• Senko
  1st Bass was 11"
  2nd Bass was 16-1/2" 2lbs
• Senko
• 1lber, and 1/2lber

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
• Storm shad mullet color
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head

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
• 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

• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog
• 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"
• 1 Keeper barely 12"
  The rest were in the 8"-11"range
• 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
• Dropshot
• .

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

• Rooster tail
• Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
• 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
• 4" black and blue yum dinger
• 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

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
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• 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
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• SPRO BBZ1
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• 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

• 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

• Squarebill
• 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
• Lipless crankbait rat-l-trap.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
• 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
• Boag Hog Brush Jig
• 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
• 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

• 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.
• 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

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
• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon

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.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• night crawler on a float
• live worm on float
• Kids materials
• Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• trout worms
• Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.

Herring Check Prices

• Herring Chunk
• chunks
• Live lining mackeral

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

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

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

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

• The trout tend to hang in the area I marked on the map.
• 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.
• Senkos, jitterbug, and KVD 1.5 sunfish color.
• Pogy
• Clams, dropped to the bottom. 2.5 foot leader on a baitholder hook.
• Chunked mackerel
• SENKO GREEN