Fishing near Methuen in Essex County, MA

Check Prices

• wacky rig garry yamamoto
• i used corn
• P.bait
• Pescaviva trout/shrimp/scopex
  Dat food scopex/cherry-choco-nut
  WCB Scopex pop-ups
  various Dat food Doughs
  chickj peas
  Sweet/spicy method mix
• White power eggs.
• White Power Eggs
• culprut and gary
• We used a variety of things. Chick peas and Dat food are staples now, never do I go anywhere without them. This trip I added Pescaviva "trout pellet" flavored sweet corn, Wacker Bait Pips in Tutti Fruity. The winning combo of the day was 1 chick on top of two sweet corn on a long hair.
  
  
• Chicks Peas are slamming them right now. Pescaviva corn trout pellet flavored is also producing. We always have DAT food as well and Maple peas
• This time around we kept it simple. Chick peas, Dat food and a good anise/pepper ground mix did the trick.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
• A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
• Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
• Bobber & Shiner.
• Clams
• Sea worm
• Live mackerel
• fishing bottom with hand dug worms
• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• Mackerel on a baitrunner.

Tube Check Prices

• 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
• 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

Creature Check Prices

• 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
• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• 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
• all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple

Minnow Check Prices

• We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
• hooked through back on tipup
• Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
• Live minnows
• Live Shiner
• Live Minnows
• We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
• Shine on and dropped.
• Live minnow
• Both on live minnows and panfish jigs

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• hit while sinking
• green w/ red fleck
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• Baby bass lizard
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-Go
• 8" & 10" Largemouth
• 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
• Senko
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
• 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
• Senko.
• 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Chartuese w/ Green
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• Spinner Baits
  Jigs (Texas Rig)
• Giant white double bladed buzzbait
• Dark Colors
• 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
  1-1/2lber on a craw
• tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
• 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
• Chartreuse spinnah

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• Ribbit frog
• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• 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.

Stick Bait Check Prices

• powerbait nuggets
• Trolling main channel
• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
  2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
  3rd was 8in
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• Rapala Original Silver

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• White Rooster Tail
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
• Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
• Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

Terrestrial Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

• My Friend and I used Power and Zoom worms. Caught 8 tiny LMBs. 4 a piece.
• texas rig
• Senko and jig
• wacky-rigged yum dinger
• Classic Texas Rig
• reeled real slow, weightless
• Texas Rigged Weightless.. Deadly when thrown into cover or into structure.
• just a pumpkin 7" worm and a gulp worm
• yamamoto senkos texas rigged or wacky
• Weedless Texas rig with a rubber Zoom watermelon worm. Switched to a powerbait worm. There are some giant bass in this lake. The biggest bass of the day never made it to the boat. It snapped my 8lb line during the fight.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl

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.
• 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
• Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.

Soft Baits Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
• 6/30 on Rooster Tail
  7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
• Rooster Tail
• Spinnerbait
• Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.
  
  Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked
• Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
• Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
• sluggos

Craw Check Prices

• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
• Yum black/blue craw
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• SPRO BBZ1
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
• Silver shad crank
• KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
• Bluegill squarebill cranks
• Blue gill crankbait
• reaction strike jerk in perch
• smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
• KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
• dark colored with red
  Strike king #3
• Pro model strike king 6xd sexy shad. # 2 mustad triple grip ultra point treble hooks, 7' mojo bass- st.croix-crank rod, Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb, revo sx 6.4.1 baitcaster.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Black n blue jig n pig
• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
• 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
• same jig as before
• 3/8 ounce green pumpkin Boag Hog Baits jig that I added rattles to and a black/redflake chigger craw trailer
• bucky's/sluggos/worms
• Boag Hog Brush Jig
• 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
• Wolly Bugger

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• white
• Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
• 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  
• Berkeley GULP!
• Lake fork magic shad
• yamamoto swimsenko

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• on tipups shallow as heck
• We used Live Night Crawlers and a few Live Moths
• 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.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom.
• Silver 2-way spinner hook.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. Since Pickerel don't usually bottom feed, and didn't hit on the retrieve, I was a bit surprised...
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. To be expected with Catfish.
• Sent to the bottom.
• Sent straight to the bottom and waited it out.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Srike King 3/4 oz red eyed shad,gold black back.7' mojo bass -st.croix crank rod with Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb.Stop and rip out of surmerged grass.
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap

Herring Check Prices

• chunks
• Herring Chunk

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms
• Calms - 25" and a 18"
• Clams
  1st was 25"
  2nd was 20"
• Calms - All Between 10"-12"
• Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
• Calms - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds
• Clams

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper
• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Daredevil
• Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
• chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub

Other Check Prices

• Dog food boilie
• Canned Corn
• Much like many of the spots along the Merrimack we have been hitting. Chick peas and Dat food have constantly out-performed everything else.
• i use just plain old oatmeal with a special homemade dippin' sauce
• a mixture of ice tips using minnows , power eggs( can't tell you the color) and a mixture of lures .....
• We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.
• Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.
• We used Chartreuse Powerbait Nuggets with a 3/4 ounce weight.
• again oatmeal
• Sucker Punch Bait Lead Free Micro Shad dart, pink 1/32 oz, pink with silver flash