Fishing near Newburyport in Essex County, MA

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• Calms - 26" ,and a 15"
• Just good old chunk bait! Fresh Mac's.
• 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.
• rubber worms worked the best
• medium golden shiners from merrimac sports
• Strike King Black Spinnerbait
• 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.
• Power Eggs

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

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
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head

Minnow Check Prices

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

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
• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-Go
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Dark Colors
• Giant white double bladed buzzbait
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• Chartuese w/ Green
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Frog Bait Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• a couple of types of different of single hook only lures
• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

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"...
• Shakey Head
• Shakey Head
  1st was 1lb 5oz
  2nd was 1lb
• I caught a 1-1/4lb and a 2-1/4lb Largemouth
• char. color senko
• yamamoto senkos texas rigged or wacky
• texas rig
• Senko and jig
• 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

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!

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.

Craw Check Prices

• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
• Yum black/blue craw

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.

Jigs Check Prices

• 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties
• Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
• silver,green skirt

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
• KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
• Silver shad crank
• Bluegill squarebill cranks
• Blue gill crankbait
• reaction strike jerk in perch

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

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.
• Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
• Silver 2-way spinner hook.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. To be expected with Catfish.
• 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...
• 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 - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds
• Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
• Calms - All Between 10"-12"
• Calms - 25" and a 18"
• Clams
  1st was 25"
  2nd was 20"
• Calms
• Clams
• chunked herrin

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• swedish pimp

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Daredevil
• Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.

Grub Check Prices

• gub on worm hook

Live Baits Check Prices

Other Check Prices

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