Fishing near Stow in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• Jitterbugs (black)
• Mostly Spider Grub and Spinner bait
  Our Limit was Chuck's 1lb 14oz, and My 3lb 5oz, 2lb 15oz, 2-1/4lber, and 1-3/4lb for 12.14lbs
  
  I also had two 1lbers, and a 10"er
• sweet beaver
• drop shoting deep with 4 in senco
• 1/4 oz jig orange and brown
  with craw trailer
• sweet beaver again
• 3 on dark green Senkos
  1 on a Popper
  1 on a Rattle Trap
• Bk?BL wacky Senko fished with current in shadows of the bridge
• Crawler/ dough ball
• GARY SENKO GREEN IN COLOR

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Large Minnows
• Large and XL Shiners
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• Big Shinner
• Yellow Perch
• White suckers
• Big Kiva
• Pike shinners, again
• Shinners
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners

Tube Check Prices

• minitube flourescent
• pumpkin seed tube
• june bug tube
• June Bug tube
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• salt and pepper purple flake tube
• june bug tubes
• Chartreuse pepper flack tube
• white tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner

Creature Check Prices

• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• 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
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• 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.
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver

Minnow Check Prices

• actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
• Kivas
  Shinners
• Medium shiner
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• shiner
• Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
• Not sure exactly what kind of bait fish it was, since I found it wriggling at the water's edge - my guess is a shiner or shad.
• I found that using medium shiners with a bass hook hooked through the back of the tail worked best. The bait seems to stay much more lively that way.
• fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Though I have caught a few bass on various lures here so far, topwaters seem to be the most productive by far. It makes sense when you think about. Go down to Fairhaven on a summer night and just try and count the splashes on the surface. I lost count somewhere around 20.
• Popper
• Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog
• Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
• Black jitter bug.
• Rebel Popper - Perch
• Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• Jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• green w/ red fleck
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
• 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• Two 1lb Pickerel
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• Sluggo
• bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
• 4.5in Slug-go

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  
• Again Dat food( shrimplies and gold) and feed corn were present. We also tried a packbait of Limeycarper, as well as bread, strawberry canned corn, and luncheon meat.
  
  
• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• strike king 3/8 oz spinner
• 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
• Spinnerbait
• 1/2 oz. chartreuse shad rocket
• red
• Spinner green bleeder
• Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf
• Green Bleeder
• white skirt
• chatterbait, chartruese and lime colored 1/4 oz

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• 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.
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Ribbit frog
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser
• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• All morning chain pickerel were hitting my plastic lures, but not taking any hooks. One did manage to bite my power worm in just the right spot however, and gave a nice fight. After that I threw a newly acquired Rapala Husky Jerk around, and got an even nicer pickerel in return! If anyone wants that lure, it's still there, stuck in a tree branch.
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• X-Rap
• Trolling main channel
• pumkin stick bait, yumm

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Silver / Black Roostertail
• This was the Bass I caught this morning. He hit the Mepps Agila no 4 with commendable gusto. As usual with this damn lure, it does work, but that big trailing treble sure is a snagfest.
• two 6in, and one 3" Bass
• All Between 7"-4"
• One 7" and one 8"
• All between 7 and 8 inches
• Two 5" Bass
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• All 4 and 5 inch Bass
• 5in and 9in Bass

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• Green worm
• 6" finesse worm
• 5 inch senko
  cinnamon color
  #4 ewg gamakatsu hook
• 5 inch senko
• My 3 Keepers with biggest 1-1/2
  5 Non-keepers
• 5 inch senko
  Baby bass color
• 5" Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin (Orange) pro senko, fished split shot.
• 6" Green/Brown Pumpkin Senko
• Senko watermelon
• Brown

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• Dark Senkos wacky
• xps swimbait
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• Storm Shad Minnow

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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
• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• Crank and buzzbait
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• All between 6" & 9"
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• 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

• My Best 5:
  Two 2lbers
  1-1/2lber
  1-1/4lber
  1lber
• Drop Shot
• pitching into the pads with a craw
• Jigs, Worms, Cranks
  Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
  Many shorts caught
• Shaky Head
• one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
• Worms, Jigs, and 1 on topwater early
  
  My contribution to the limit was a 3-1/2lber
  
  The rest were 2lbs to 3/4lbs mostly
• Jigs & Worms
  Our Limit:
  Chuck had a 3lber
  I had a 4lber, 3-1/4lber, 3lber, and 1-3/4lber
  
  The rest from 1-3/4lbs to shorts
• Dropshot Sluggo
• Dropshot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead
• 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake
• 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.
• 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.

Craw Check Prices

• crawdads and soft frogs
• Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
• Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Yum black/blue craw
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Blue Fox Vibrax series
• Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.
• Bluegill flash 5 inch super fluke
  Bluegill chatterbait with a watermelon pearl lft swimbait
  1/4 ounce blk/blu booyah baby boo jig with a black yum craw papi
  2 inch baby bass bps grub
• rapala red ratalin rap
• Koppers livetarget frog
  scumfrog little bigfoot frog
  zoom super fluke
• senkos
• Green bigfoot scum frog
  Tan/brown Koppers hollow body frog
  Watermelonseed 5" Zoom super fluke
  Green pumpkin booyah boo jig w/ Rage craw trailer green pumpkin
  bluegill 3/8 oz. chatterbait w/ watermelon red flake swimmin' fluke
• Rooster Tail
• Rocket Shad Spinnerbait
• White and Blue Spinnerbait

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• SPRO BBZ1
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

Jigs Check Prices

• jig n pig
• Our Limit was :
  My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz
  
  1lb and under on the rest
• 11" on Shaky Head
  15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig
• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...

Crankbait Check Prices

• strike king sexy shad
• Srike King crank bait, Sexy shad
  dives 2 to 5 feet
• Square Bill
• mann's baby shallow diver chartrause perch pattern. caught all 8 on it!
• River2Sea Biggie Smalls yellow perch pattern
• 1 inch strike king minnow
• same as before
• rapala wounded minnow
• Using a z-man chatterbait bluegill color with a swimmin super fluke as the trailer. for the other fish i used a livetarget bluegill crankbait.
• Lipless Strike King Red Eye Shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
• rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
• One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  
• 1st was 1lb 3oz
  2nd was 2lb 5oz
• pumpkin
• 3lb 4oz
  A couple 3lbers
  A couple 2-3/4blers
  Half a dozen 2-1/2lbers
  A dozen 2lbers
  ...so many fish! I lost count!
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• black and blue with blue craw trailer
• SENKO(GREEN),SLUGO(BLUE)
• Black blue 1/4 oz jig. Creature bait Trailor

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  
• Berkeley GULP!
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• Storm 2in Perch
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White wooly bugger
• White Wooly bugger
• Wolly Bugger
• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• Up on the more northern end of things, we hooked into a few Landlocked salmon bites. Mostly smaller guys, but a few just keepers. Dad hit them on a variety of lures, but all mine came in on Little Cleo spoons. Another species crossed off the bucket list!
• silver spoon
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Greyish, green, red face
• rattler
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• Kids materials
• night crawler on a float
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• live worm on float

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!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

• chartruce and whit chatter bait
• Chatterbait
• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail
• Dough Ball

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub

Other Check Prices

• Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
• Dough Ball
• I went with a basic powerbait rig. I Tied a barrel swivel on to the end of my 8 pound mono and added about 2.5-3 feet of 6 pound fluorocarbon leader. Just above the swivel was a small 1/8 ounce steel egg sinker. A baited powerbait hook completed the set up.
• Just used some more powerbait. I'm thinking next time I may try some mealworms or nightcrawlers. Maybe a few small senkos as well.
• Corn, White bread, vienna sausage.
• SPINNER BAIT
• Jigs, Craws, Swimbait, Dropshot, Chatterbait, Spinnerbait
  
  Two were 1-3/4lbs
  Five were 1-1/2lbs
  The rest were 1-1/4lbs and lower
• rooster tail
• Berkley PowerBait
• Got one on the mop jig just across the current. Got another on the buzzbait a little further out. Got a couple of shorts.