Fishing near Gloucester in Essex County, MA

Check Prices

• minnoes NO bobber
• tip ups with shiners
• One on and a spinner, one on a swim senko
• plastic worm
• clams
• Just good old chunk bait! Fresh Mac's.
• Calms - 26" ,and a 15"
• Clams or seaworms
• Power Eggs
• KVD 1.5, sunfish colored

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Mackerel
• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• Live mackerel
• Sea worm
• Clams
• Mackerel on a baitrunner.
• fishing bottom with hand dug worms
• Fresh live mackeral
• live mackerel
• We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers

Tube Check Prices

• Tube and huge sea worms
• 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.

Creature Check Prices

• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple

Minnow Check Prices

• hooked through back on tipup
• A Couple 2-1/4lbers
  Ten 2lbers
  A Couple 1-3/4lbers
  The rest between 1-1/2lbs and 1lb
• 1st was 1lb 4oz
  2nd was 10in
• 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
  2nd was 15in
• 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
• Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
• 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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Xcalibur jimmy
• MS Slammer hitch
• Jitterbug
• Bone Zara spook
• Black buzzbait with a black blade
• FROG
• Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
• Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger

Lizard Check Prices

• Baby bass lizard
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• hit while sinking
• green w/ red fleck

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 8" & 10" Largemouth

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Dark Colors
• Giant white double bladed buzzbait
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
  1-1/2lber on a craw
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• White, double silver blade

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in
• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• Smaller bass on a 4" rubber worm
  Lunker on a red inline spinner
• rooster tail

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• Sabiki rig, white
• Non-Keeper
• shad darts
• Giant swedish pimple

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

• 5 inch dinger
• Shakey Head
• Shakey Head
  1st was 1lb 5oz
  2nd was 1lb
• I caught a 1-1/4lb and a 2-1/4lb Largemouth
• char. color senko
• Gulp red "bloodworms"
• Two 1lbers, and 4 others between 10"-12" off docks, and oeverhanging brush
• Soft Plastic
• yamamoto senkos texas rigged or wacky
• Texas Rigged Weightless.. Deadly when thrown into cover or into structure.

Hard Baits Check Prices

• We each caught 5 Keepers each.
  Best 5 were of Chuck's 4lber, 3lber, 2-3/4lber, and My 4lber, and 1-3/4lber.
  
  I also had three 1-1/4lbers
• Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait
• 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

• Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
• Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!
• 1 on a baby bass colored lizard and another on a baby bass colored senko
• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster tail

Craw Check Prices

• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• Yum black/blue craw
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.

Jigs Check Prices

• 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties
• Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
• silver,green skirt
• Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

• #3 crank bait dark colored
• dark colored with red
  Strike king #3
• and senkos too
• Squarebill
• reaction strike jerk in perch
• smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko

Bass Jig Check Prices

• bucky's/sluggos/worms
• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
• 1st was 1lb 6oz
  2nd was 1-1/4lb
  3rd was 1-3/4lb
• All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig
  
  1st was 2lb 10oz
  2nd was 1lb 7oz
  3rd was 1lb
• Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

Wet Fly Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.

Herring Check Prices

• chunks
• Herring Chunk

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• chunked herrin
• Clams
• Calms - 25" and a 18"
• Calms - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds
• Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
• Calms
• Calms - All Between 10"-12"
• Clams
  1st was 25"
  2nd was 20"
• Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.

Grub Check Prices

• gub on worm hook
• Dropshot

Live Baits Check Prices

• Sea Worms
• Fresh Cut Pogies
• Seaworms

Other Check Prices

• Hooks baited with clams above a 1lb weight.
• Clams fished in 323 feet deep water
• clams for bait, catching doubles all day
• clams
• clam
• Clam
• Senkos, jitterbug, and KVD 1.5 sunfish color.
• Bread
• Some people were using jigs, but I had some early success with cut clam, so I stuck with that.
• More cut clams this time. Tried to include darker pieces of stomch, the fish seem to bite more often on those.