Fishing near Waltham in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• SENKO
• Bomber A crank bait
  Johnson silver spoon
• senko,top water popper
• bread, corn , strwaberry
• This is my first Bass of the year and my first fish this open water season. To hell with what the fishing magazines say, Red Shad power worms on cone weights work any time of the year! I've lost count of how many fish I have caught using this one setup.
• Just a plain old worm on a bobber. I had bought some for an outing in NH that never materialized. So I came down to the river to use them up.
• Jitterbug
• Spinnerbait (fleck)
  swimbaits (storm) Shad
  Spanky pumpkin
• swimsenko on a jig head
• Senko, 4" watermelon, red flake

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
• Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.
• worm
• slug
• Large and XL Shiners
• Large Minnows
• Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
  one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
• Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
• SEAWORMS
• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.

Creature Check Prices

• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
• More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• Creature baits and senkos around docks.
• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.

Tube Check Prices

• use small tube
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• tube dark...
• white tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• minitube flourescent
• Tube and huge sea worms
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms

Minnow Check Prices

• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
• Dead minnows
• 2lb 9oz
  1-1/2lbs
  3-3/4lbs
• 1st was 3lb 6oz
  2nd was about 1lb
• One 2lber
  Two 1-3/4lbers
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
• Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
• 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
  2nd was 15in
• 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
• 1st was 1lb 4oz
  2nd was 10in

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• I use frogs, senko, spinnerbaits. jigs. Just about anything will work here if u know what your doing. And have the tackle to get ém out the cabbage cuz its thick and so are they.
• BPS Popper, Texas special color.
• Rapala SkitterPop 7 in brown frog
• 3/8 oz. jointed, black Jitterbug. Heavy test, mono leader tied onto braid.
• Top water rappala, and a rooster tail spinner.
• Zara Spook.
• Black Jitterbug
• 3inch Black Jitterbug
• 3.5inch Jitterbug (arbogast)
• 3/8 oz Hulla Popper

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• 1st was 13" 1lb
  2nd was 6"
• 6" on inline spinner
  3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
• 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
• Senko
• 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  
• Joes fly
• Green Popper Frog Fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• White spinner bait
• war eagle spinnerbait in the "screaming eagle" size which is a 1/2 oz in the size of a 1/4 oz
• BLACK TANDEM WILLOW
• tandem willow, firetiger
• Golden Shiner spinnerbait and black buzzbait. Big fish on the spinnerbait.
• war eagle spinnerbait, in the
  "screming eagle" size which is a 1/2 oz in a 1/4 size. Awesome!
• 3/8 oz. Booyah Counter Strike Spinnerbait (gold, willow leaf, white/chartreause).
• caught 2 on a booyah spinner,
  1 on a booyah boo jig, 1on 5 in senko. This is not a booyah commercial, lol!
• war eagle spinnerbait
• Brown/Gold w/Red

Frog Bait Check Prices

• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• 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.
• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• Rapala F05 BCF
  Rebel minnow F07 Silver
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
• Rapala Original Silver
• Jerkbait
  1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
  2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
  3rd was 8in
• rapala
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
• Meeps - 1/6 oz. Black/Yellow Blade
  - Yellow Tail
• After not getting much action out of the worms, I decided to toss one of my old mepps black fly spinners out. On the second cast I caught the largest bass I've ever seen down here.
• #4 Mepps with natural colored dressed trebles. 3/8 oz Blue Fox spoon, red and white striped with nickel underside.
• 1/8in Rooster Tail
• All Between 5" and 7"
• An 8", 2 10"ers, and a 13" 1lb
• 9" and 10" Smallies
• 2 in the 6-7 inch range

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• Sabiki rig, white
• shad darts

Worm Check Prices

• Black/Blue Flake 5" Senko
• Black/Blue Yum Dinger (4)
  Nightcrawler (1)
• 3/4lb , and 1lb
• green and creme 7 inch senko
• Brown and Green Senko
• Finesse worms & Kinami
• Senko
• 5" Senko, rigged weightless.
• Yum Dinger
• I bought a plastic worm with a weedless stinger rig at walmart last week. I decided to use it down at the cove for getting into those lily pad patches. Boy does it cut through those nicley. Shortly after catching this fish I promptly got it stuck in a tree. Looks like i'm headed back to walmart!

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• Crank and buzzbait
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• 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"
• 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
• 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

• Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot
  
  Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)
  
  
• 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
• Drop Shot
• 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
  The rest were in the 8"-11" range
• Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
  1st was a little over a 1lb
  2nd was 12"
  3rd was 2lbs 2oz
• Dropshot
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
• 1 Keeper barely 12"
  The rest were in the 8"-11"range
• 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
• 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

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.
• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
• Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail
  Rapala F-5 Original
• Rapala F-7 Original Silver
• Rapala F-5 Original
• Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
• Biggest fish on a Strike King Bluegill Swim Jig
  One on Sexy Shad 4S crankbait
  One on Natural Frog Zara Spook
  Four on Pearl Zoom Salty Super Fluke
• Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
• Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.
• Blue Fox Vibrax series

Craw Check Prices

• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• 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
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• crawdads and soft frogs
• Yum black/blue craw

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• SPRO BBZ1
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig
• 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
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

• Strike King Pro Series 4S - Sexy Shad
• Strike King 1XS
• Rapala Original F-7 - Perch
• Rapala Original - F-9 - Bleeding Crawdad
• Mid-depth crankbait
• One on a floating minnow, one on a wakebait
• Rapala Original Floating Minnow
• Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Threadfin Shad Bandit Footloose &
  Bluegill Bandit 100

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
• Jig and pig in the bushes and trees
• Pitched a war eagle flippin jig to a sweet wall that always holds bass
• SENKO CLEA/ORANGE
• Strike King KVD swim jig, Bluegill pattern, with green pumpkin grub trailer.
• Green Football Jig with Green and Chartreuse Skirt
• Booyah boo jig watermelon,
  Zoom chunk trailer
• Northland tackle Jungle Jig
  3/8 oz Watermelon w/ blackflake, matching zoom chunk trailer
• USED GARY YAMAMOTTO WORMS HOOKED WEEDLESS
  SPENT AN HOUR AND A HALF
  PULLED IN WEEDS AND 2 BASS
  THE WEEDS DOWN IN THE COVE HAVE ALMOST COMPLETLY TAKEN OVER SEASON IS ALMOST OVER FOR SHORE FISHING DOWN THERE AND THE FISH HAVE BEEN SMALL FROM THE CHARLES THIS YEAR.
• Tube brown and red fig

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
• yamamoto swimsenko
• Lake fork magic shad
• 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
• Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• Berkeley GULP!
• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• gold little cleo
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• silver spoon
• regular silver spoon
• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
• 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

• night crawler on a float
• live worm on float
• Kids materials
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• rattler
• Greyish, green, red face
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back

Herring Check Prices

• Herring Chunk

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight
• Clams
• Calms

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!!!
• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
• Popper Fishing
• Popper fishing off the boat

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail
• Fresh Cut Pogies
• Dough Ball
• Seaworms
• Sea Worms

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

• Got one on the mop jig just across the current. Got another on the buzzbait a little further out. Got a couple of shorts.
• KVD 1.5, Senkos in black with red flake as well as shad colored.
• SENKO GREEN
• None.
• Natural Berkley Honey worm
• White Berkely Honey worm
• Powerbait
• Rainbow powerbait
• Chartreuse power bait. Slip rig with a one once egg sinker and about two feet of leader.
• Power Bait