Fishing near Salem in Essex County, MA

Check Prices

• minnoes NO bobber
• KVD 1.5, sunfish colored
• plastic worm
• One on and a spinner, one on a swim senko
• tip ups with shiners
• Soft plastic 8" worm
• clams
• 1lb 13oz on a creature bait on a jig head
  2-1/4lber on a Squarebill
• Mackerel Chunk
  Berkly Power Bait, 3" Paddle Tail
  Artificial Crab
• Power Eggs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• Live mackerel
• Sea worm
• Mackerel
• live mackerel
• We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
• Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
• Live eels
• Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
  one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
• SEAWORMS

Tube Check Prices

• Tube and huge sea worms
• 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
• 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig

Creature Check Prices

• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• 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
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• 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

Minnow Check Prices

• 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 was 25in 3lb 2oz
  2nd was 15in
• 2lb 9oz
  1-1/2lbs
  3-3/4lbs
• 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
• Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
• 1st was 3lb 6oz
  2nd was about 1lb
• One 2lber
  Two 1-3/4lbers
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
• hooked through back on tipup
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 8" & 10" Largemouth
• This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
• 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
• 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

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
  1-1/2lber on a craw
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• White, double silver blade
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• same as before
• 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
• Chartreuse spinnah
• White spinnerbait
• Chartruese w/Red Spinnerbait
• White spinner bait, willow leaf style blades. Thrown into herring pods on lower lake

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.
  
  Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Streamer Check Prices

• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
  2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
  3rd was 8in
• Rapala Original Silver
• rapala
• Rapala F05 BCF
  Rebel minnow F07 Silver
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
• Rapala jerkbait
• Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in
• Smaller bass on a 4" rubber worm
  Lunker on a red inline spinner
• rooster tail
• 1st. 5in
  2nd. 10in 8oz
• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• 4" and 5" Sunfish

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

• I caught a 1-1/4lb and a 2-1/4lb Largemouth
• Shakey Head
• Shakey Head
  1st was 1lb 5oz
  2nd was 1lb
• 5 inch dinger
• Gulp red "bloodworms"
• char. color senko
• Two 1lbers, and 4 others between 10"-12" off docks, and oeverhanging brush
• Soft Plastic
• 4inch black senko wacky rigged.
• 2 inch neon rubber worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait
• 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
• 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

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!
• Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
• 1 on a baby bass colored lizard and another on a baby bass colored senko
• 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)
  
  
• Drop Shot
• 1 Keeper barely 12"
  The rest were in the 8"-11"range
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
• 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
• 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
  The rest were in the 8"-11" range

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

Craw Check Prices

• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Yum black/blue craw
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• SPRO BBZ1

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

• metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

• Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties
• Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
• silver,green skirt
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

• Squarebill
• smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
• reaction strike jerk in perch
• Strike King bright yellow minnow
• Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
• Strike King Pro Series 1
• Strike King Squarebill
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad
• Rapala Original Floating Minnow

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 1st was 1lb 6oz
  2nd was 1-1/4lb
  3rd was 1-3/4lb
• Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
• All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig
  
  1st was 2lb 10oz
  2nd was 1lb 7oz
  3rd was 1lb
• bucky's/sluggos/worms
• 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
• Boag Hog Brush Jig
• And Senko
  Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
• JIG N PIG
  4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
  WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
• Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
• 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
• Lake fork magic shad
• yamamoto swimsenko

Wet Fly Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
• gold little cleo
• Lil Jake, silver with red dots.

Herring Check Prices

• Herring Chunk
• chunks
• Live lining mackeral

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.
• trout worms
• all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!

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

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• chunked herrin
• Clams
• Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight
• Calms
• Calms - 25" and a 18"
• Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
• Calms - All Between 10"-12"
• Calms - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds
• Clams
  1st was 25"
  2nd was 20"

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
• Popper fishing off the boat
• Popper Fishing
• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!
• Popper fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

• chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

• gub on worm hook
• Dropshot
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill

Live Baits Check Prices

• Sea Worms
• Fresh Cut Pogies
• Seaworms
• Dough Ball

Other Check Prices

• Senkos, jitterbug, and KVD 1.5 sunfish color.
• Hooks baited with clams above a 1lb weight.
• We used Clams On Jigs with teasers (little grubs)
• The trout tend to hang in the area I marked on the map.
• Pogy
• french bread crust, sitting about 6 inches below the surface
• Crust of french bread so it will float
• Chunked, frozen, garbage mackerel.
• Some people were using jigs, but I had some early success with cut clam, so I stuck with that.
• Clams fished in 323 feet deep water