Fishing near Newbury in Essex County, MA

Check Prices

• Just good old chunk bait! Fresh Mac's.
• Calms - 26" ,and a 15"
• Clams or seaworms
• Used a rattle trap (not sure if there's another name for it. Couldn't find it listed. I'm pretty new still.) I reeled it pretty fast, pause and let it come up a bit and so on. Bass hit it hard about 12 feet from bridge, on right side under some trees.
• medium golden shiners from merrimac sports
• Strike King Black Spinnerbait
• rubber worms worked the best
• Power Eggs
• Our typical Merrimack bucket contains DAt food boilies, chick peas as well as a bread crumb/anise/oats/ferret food ground bait.
• 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

• Clams
• Mackerel on a baitrunner.
• fishing bottom with hand dug worms
• Fresh live mackeral
• Mackerel
• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• Live mackerel
• Sea worm
• A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
• A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.

Tube Check Prices

• 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
• Tube and huge sea worms
• T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
  White Ice Zoom Small tube
  White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.

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
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
• 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

Minnow Check Prices

• hooked through back on tipup
• Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
• Live minnows
• Live Minnows
• Live Shiner
• We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
• 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 ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
• 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
  2nd was 15in

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Bone Zara spook
• Xcalibur jimmy
• Black buzzbait with a black blade
• FROG
• Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
• MS Slammer hitch
• Jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

• hit while sinking
• Baby bass lizard
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-Go
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 8" & 10" Largemouth

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Dark Colors
• Giant white double bladed buzzbait
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• Chartuese w/ Green
• 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
  1-1/2lber on a craw

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in
• a couple of types of different of single hook only lures

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• Non-Keeper
• shad darts
• Sabiki rig, white
• Giant swedish pimple
• cast masters and diamond jig

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

• 5 inch dinger
• Tried Yums And Yamamotos...
  White/Gray,Purple/Black,Tan/Brown,BladeDancer...Finally, old faithful,Watermelon 7"...
• char. color senko
• Shakey Head
  1st was 1lb 5oz
  2nd was 1lb
• Shakey Head
• I caught a 1-1/4lb and a 2-1/4lb Largemouth
• yamamoto senkos texas rigged or wacky
• Senko and jig
• texas rig
• Texas Rigged Weightless.. Deadly when thrown into cover or into structure.

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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
• 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.

Soft Baits Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
• Spinnerbait
• 6/30 on Rooster Tail
  7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
• Rooster Tail
• Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.
  
  Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
• Rooster tail

Craw Check Prices

• Yum black/blue craw
• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• #3 crank bait dark colored
• and senkos too
• dark colored with red
  Strike king #3
• Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
• Strike King sexy shad 2.5
• reaction strike jerk in perch
• smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
• KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
• Silver shad crank

Bass Jig Check Prices

• bucky's/sluggos/worms
• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
• Black n blue jig n pig
• 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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

Wet Fly Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Herring Check Prices

• chunks
• Herring Chunk

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom.
• 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.
• Neon Yellow 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 to the bottom, just in deeper water than the first two.

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.

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms - 25" and a 18"
• Calms
• 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
• Clams
• chunked herrin

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• swedish pimp

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• gub on worm hook
• Dropshot

Live Baits Check Prices

Other Check Prices

• clam
• clams
• Clam
• Bread
• Maple-Banana Maize
  Pescaviva sweet corn
  Chicks
  Dat Food Boilies Scopex
  
• shiners, p-bait, worms, small spinners,spoons u name it
• clams for bait, catching doubles all day
• again oatmeal
• just some good old rainbow paste
• 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.