Fishing near Townsend in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
• plastics
• Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters
• Look for the ramp, it a little one!
• Green with gold belly swim bait.
• senko
• smoke red flake senkos
• wacky worms and spinnerbaits
• mepps lure
• texes rigged senko

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Bobber & Shiner.
• Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
• Big Shinner
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners
• Shinners
• Pike shinners, again
• Big Shinners
  Castmasters
• Yellow Perch
• White suckers

Creature Check Prices

• all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.

Tube Check Prices

• june bug tube
• pumpkin seed tube
• Chartreuse pepper flack tube
• salt and pepper purple flake tube
• june bug tubes
• June Bug tube
• purple smoke tube
  salt and pepper flake tube
  june bug tube
• minitube flourescent

Minnow Check Prices

• pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
• actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
• Shine on and dropped.
• We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
• on bottom rigs and bobbers
• Medium shiner
• Kivas
  Shinners
• fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
• Large shiners
• 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
• 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
• Zara Spook Baby Bass
• jitterbug
• 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.

Lizard Check Prices

• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
• red
• strike king 3/8 oz spinner
• 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
• Spinnerbait
• 1/2 oz. chartreuse shad rocket
• tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
• Spinner
  Blue-fox
  Yellow
• I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Ribbit frog
• 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.
• Swimming the frog through the pads
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• 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

• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
• X-Rap
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• Trolling main channel

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
• Asortment of spinners.
• Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
• Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
• Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
• 1/4 ounce
• White Rooster Tail
• Silver / Black Roostertail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  
• purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
• Sadly my only Bass of the day, and it was to small
• Red Senko took it on the fall on the fall
• senko
• gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
• 6" Yamamoto Senko black/pink worm
• Black or Brown body with Chartreuse tail
• Black or Brown with Chartreuse tail
• Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• yum 5" monny minnows white
• Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
• Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Senko and Dropshot
• Dropshot
• 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
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Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
• senkos
• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook & trout worm.
• 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.
• 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
• Blue Fox Vibrax series
• Koppers livetarget frog
  scumfrog little bigfoot frog
  zoom super fluke
• 4" black and blue yum dinger

Craw Check Prices

• 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.
• crawdads and soft frogs

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
• Same details as Bass 1
• Same as Bass 1
• Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
• rapala wounded minnow
• Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
• purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
• shallow running crank baits
• KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
• KVD 1.5 and 2.5

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Crawfish style.
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• pumpkin
• brown
• Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
• 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!
• rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
• One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  
• 1st was 1lb 3oz
  2nd was 2lb 5oz
• black and blue with blue craw trailer

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
• Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
• 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
• KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
• white
• Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  
• Berkeley GULP!

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!
• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
• Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
• Sherbert (Pink & Orange Glitter) Powerbait.
• Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Brass 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook, sent to the bottom.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Greyish, green, red face

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
• Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
  Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait
• Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
  Booyah Frog

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.

Other Check Prices

• 2 fish were caught with a Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook and worm.
  One was caught on a #6 hook and floating orange Powerbait "Trout Nibbles".
  All were caught mid-water, on the retrieve.
• Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
• We had many things on hand, oatmeal, boilies, chick peas, feed corn, birdseed and grits based pack/method mixes, dog food, maple peas...
  
  In the end most fish were caught on Chick peas, followed by Dat food (strawberry) with one on Simon's pineapple birdseed "cake" boilie.
• Feed corn and dat food were on the menu. We also tried chick peas, canned corn, luncheon meat, a coupld of pack/dough baits.
  
  We chummed a mix or bread crumb, hemp meal, pineapple soda and other such ingredients.
  
  
• My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
• Oatmeal is the bait of choice from the locals. Simon and I also brought feed corn, boilies, chick peas, a few dough baits and a grits based pack bait.
  
  all action was from our Dat food boilies ( pineapple and strawberry) and the grits based pack bait. Oatmeal produced one good run, and a few nibbles.
  
  
• Bread Balls and Canned Corn
• yellow rubber powerbait eggs
• Velveeta and bread...who knew?
• Corn, White bread, vienna sausage.