Fishing near Tyngsborough in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• Rooster Tail
• mepps lure
• i used corn
• Won't let me add photo
• wacky rig garry yamamoto
• P.bait
• on a worm :-)
• live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
• Bk?BL wacky Senko fished with current in shadows of the bridge
• tiki worms

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Bobber & Shiner.
• Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
• A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
• A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
• Large Minnows
• Large and XL Shiners
• used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
  Yellow
  Sherbert
• Big Shinner
• Perch work the best or Big Shinners
• Pike shinners, again

Creature Check Prices

• 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
• 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.
• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too

Tube Check Prices

• T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
  White Ice Zoom Small tube
  White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
• minitube flourescent
• 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
• 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
• use small tube
• june bug tube
• pumpkin seed tube
• white tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner

Minnow Check Prices

• Shine on and dropped.
• We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
• We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
• Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
• Live Shiner
• Live Minnows
• Live minnows
• actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
• hooked through back on tipup
• Live minnow

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
• Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
• FROG
• Black buzzbait with a black blade
• 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.
• Bone Zara spook
• 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
• Zara spook and jitterbug
• Popper
• Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger

Lizard Check Prices

• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• green w/ red fleck
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-Go
• 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
• 8" & 10" Largemouth
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
• Senko
• 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
• Senko.
• 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
• Spinner
  Blue-fox
  Yellow
• I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• red
• Chartuese w/ Green
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• Spinner Baits
  Jigs (Texas Rig)
• 1/2 oz. chartreuse shad rocket
• strike king 3/8 oz spinner

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Ribbit frog
• 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.
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• 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.

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Trolling main channel
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• powerbait nuggets
• Jerkbait
  1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
  2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
  3rd was 8in
• Rapala Original Silver
• Jerkbait
• Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Gold Vibrafox #2
• Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
• 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
• White Rooster Tail
• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• 1/4 ounce
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 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.

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• shad darts

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Zoom Watermelon Seed
• Sadly my only Bass of the day, and it was to small
• Orange was the color of the day
• Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
• My Friend and I used Power and Zoom worms. Caught 8 tiny LMBs. 4 a piece.
• Trick worm on a shaky head and a drop shot rig with a powerbait minnow.
• Watermelon/orange-red w/copper flake Senko rigged Texas style
• 6" Yamamoto Senko black/pink worm
• BPS shakey head worm, 2/0 Wide Gap hook
• Zoom (Xoom) Rubber worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Black worm with bright yellow tail
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 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.
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• Crank and buzzbait
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• All between 6" & 9"
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Senko and Dropshot
• .
• Shaky Head
• one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
• Drop Shot
• Jigs, Worms, Cranks
  Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
  Many shorts caught
• pitching into the pads with a craw
• My Best 5:
  Two 2lbers
  1-1/2lber
  1-1/4lber
  1lber
• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog

Craw Check Prices

• Yum black/blue craw
• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
• Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
• Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
• crawdads and soft frogs
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked
• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
• senkos
• Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
• Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
• 4" black and blue yum dinger
• 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
• 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
• Koppers livetarget frog
  scumfrog little bigfoot frog
  zoom super fluke
• Blue Fox Vibrax series

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
• SPRO BBZ1
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.

Jigs Check Prices

• 11" on Shaky Head
  15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
• Our Limit was :
  My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz
  
  1lb and under on the rest
• jig n pig
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb

Crankbait Check Prices

• KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
• Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
• Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
• purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
• Silver body with a black back
• rapala wounded minnow
• Same details as Bass 1
• Same as Bass 1
• Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Black n blue jig n pig
• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
• pumpkin
• black and blue with blue craw 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!
• Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
• One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  
• 1st was 1lb 3oz
  2nd was 2lb 5oz
• All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig
  
  1st was 2lb 10oz
  2nd was 1lb 7oz
  3rd was 1lb

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  
• Berkeley GULP!
• white
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
• 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
• Lake fork magic shad
• yamamoto swimsenko
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies
• Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
• Brass 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
• Neon Orange 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Silver/Copper 2-Way spinner hook.
• Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• Greyish, green, red face
• rattler
• 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
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper
• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball
• white rooster tail

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• 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.
  
  
• 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.
• 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
• Dat food and chick peas performed well once again. Maple peas had a run but we lost the fish.
• My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
• Velveeta and bread...who knew?
• We used Chartreuse Powerbait Nuggets with a 3/4 ounce weight.
• Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.
• We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.