Long Pond (dracut) Fishing Spot
- County: Middlesex - Dracut, MA
- Acreage: 113
- Public Fishing: Yes
- Mean Depth: 10'
- Max Depth: 25'
- Website: http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/habitat/maps/ponds/pdf/dfwlongd.pdf
- Last Modified By: paewraul on 03/26/22 07:03 AM
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Long Pond (dracut) Baits and Tackle
Lure (Other) Check Prices
- Rubber worms frogs,spinners
All worked
Other Check Prices
- Bread Balls and Canned Corn
- 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. - 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. - 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.
Crankbait Check Prices
- KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
In-Line Spinner Check Prices
- 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
- Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
- White Rooster Tail
Worm Check Prices
- Zoom Watermelon Seed
Nightcrawler Check Prices
- Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
- worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies
Minnow Check Prices
- Shine on and dropped.
Long Pond (dracut) Description
This infertile, 113-acre lake is located on the New Hampshire border, about three and a half miles northwest of the center of Dracut. Maximum depth is a little over twenty-five feet and average depth is around ten feet. Transparency is poor, especially during nights and weekends when boat use is high. Aquatic vegetation is prominent with milfoil. Weed patches (lily beds) are located in the vicinity of the marshy area near the outlet on the south end. More than half of the shoreline is developed with seasonal and year round homes. There is no formal public access at this pond, but boat launching is available for a fee at a paved commercial ramp located off Old Nashua / Long Pond Road near the Tyngsboro/Dracut town line. Fish Populations: A fisheries survey conducted in 1981 recorded ten species of warm water fish: largemouth bass, chain pickerel, yellow perch, pumpkinseed, bluegill, white perch, yellow bullhead, brown bullhead, white sucker and golden shiner.
This is an interstate pond, hence licensed anglers from either Massachusetts or New Hampshire are allowed to fish it. New Hampshire regulations apply, however, and they are generally less restrictive than ours (no minimum length on bass for instance). Shoreline access is extremely poor due to the fact that most of the shoreline is either developed or privately owned, and with the heavy recreational use and little in the way of secluded coves and backwaters, even boat fishing is difficult during the warmer months. Probably the best way to fish this lake is through the ice during the winter. At the time of the last survey panfish were common but bass and pickerel were scarce and generally of small average size. This situation has improved as bass have become more prominent. A good pickerel is occasionally taken through the ice, however, and historically at least, the lake has produced good catches of yellow perch.