Fishing near Little Misery Island in Essex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Common Carp, Striped Bass, Yellow Perch, Chain Pickerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 119
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Top Fishing Spots near Little Misery Island

Manchester Harbor
Manchester Harbor

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Beverly Cove
Beverly Cove

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Marblehead Neck
Marblehead Neck

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Salem Willows Pier
Salem Willows Pier

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Beverly Harbor
Beverly Harbor

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Winter Island Salem Ma
Winter Island Salem Ma

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Little Misery Island Area Fish Species

Recent Little Misery Island Fishing Reports

New PB Fishing Report Aug 15, 2016

New PB

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Went out with a friend and we both got new pb's. He got a 3.9 and this is my 5lb 50z pig. Landed with a Megabass shakey head rod and ci4 1,000 on...

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Flounder fishing Fishing Report Sep 15, 2009

Flounder fishing

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FINALLY Fishing Report Jun 20, 2009

FINALLY

Marblehead, MA -

Off this rock cliff on the North shore, Last piece of bait ,herring head came through for me, a little 2oz/w an bang Im eating striper for dinner...

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34" Striper on the Fly (my first!) Fishing Report Aug 18, 2013

34" Striper on the Fly (my first!)

Winter Island, Salem -

I spent the weekend fishing in the New England Kayak Fishing ninth annual Striper Shootout at Winter Island in Salem with 180 of my closest striper ya...

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Operation Neptune- Marblehead MA Fishing Report Jul 29, 2012

Operation Neptune- Marblehead MA

Marblehead, MA -

I had the pleasure of joining my buddy Sven- a retired Marine for an outing that was put together by the Wounded Warrior Program. It's a day for ...

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Darren's 1st of 2012 and personal best Fishing Report Apr 01, 2012

Darren's 1st of 2012 and personal best

Beck Pond Hamilton Ma -

Today Darren and I hit up Beck Pond. We got there around 9am. Air temp was 31 degrees and surface temp was 47. We started off throwing topwaters (s...

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Baits and Tackle used near Little Misery Island

Check Prices

  • minnoes NO bobber
  • KVD 1.5, sunfish colored
  • plastic worm
  • One on and a spinner, one on a swim senko
  • tip ups with shiners
  • Soft plastic 8" worm
  • clams
  • 1lb 13oz on a creature bait on a jig head
    2-1/4lber on a Squarebill
  • Mackerel Chunk
    Berkly Power Bait, 3" Paddle Tail
    Artificial Crab
  • Power Eggs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
  • Live mackerel
  • Sea worm
  • Mackerel
  • live mackerel
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
  • Live eels
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • SEAWORMS

Tube Check Prices

  • Tube and huge sea worms
  • 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
  • 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig

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
  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • 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.
  • Orange Pumpkin Yama creature... my go-to soft plastic

Minnow Check Prices

  • 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
  • 2lb 9oz
    1-1/2lbs
    3-3/4lbs
  • 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
  • Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
  • 1st was 3lb 6oz
    2nd was about 1lb
  • One 2lber
    Two 1-3/4lbers
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
  • hooked through back on tipup
  • Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Xcalibur jimmy
  • Jitterbug
  • MS Slammer hitch
  • Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
  • Black buzzbait with a black blade
  • FROG
  • Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
  • 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
  • Zara spook and jitterbug
  • Hula Popper

Lizard Check Prices

  • Baby bass lizard
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
  • green w/ red fleck
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 8" & 10" Largemouth
  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
  • 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
  • Senko.
  • Senko
  • 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
  • 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Joes fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
    1-1/2lber on a craw
  • See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
  • White, double silver blade
  • Fire Tiger, Double Willow
  • same as before
  • 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
  • Chartreuse spinnah
  • White spinnerbait
  • Chartruese w/Red Spinnerbait
  • White spinner bait, willow leaf style blades. Thrown into herring pods on lower lake

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
    2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
    3rd was 8in
  • Rapala Original Silver
  • rapala
  • Rapala F05 BCF
    Rebel minnow F07 Silver
  • Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)

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
  • Smaller bass on a 4" rubber worm
    Lunker on a red inline spinner
  • rooster tail
  • 1st. 5in
    2nd. 10in 8oz
  • silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • 4" and 5" Sunfish

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Sabiki rig, white
  • Non-Keeper
  • shad darts

Nymph Check Prices

  • Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

  • I caught a 1-1/4lb and a 2-1/4lb Largemouth
  • Shakey Head
  • Shakey Head
    1st was 1lb 5oz
    2nd was 1lb
  • 5 inch dinger
  • Gulp red "bloodworms"
  • char. color senko
  • Two 1lbers, and 4 others between 10"-12" off docks, and oeverhanging brush
  • Soft Plastic
  • 4inch black senko wacky rigged.
  • 2 inch neon rubber worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
    2 on Rooster Tail
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Crank and buzzbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!
  • Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
  • 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
  • Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot

    Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)

  • Drop Shot
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
  • 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
  • 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
    The rest were in the 8"-11" range

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.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Rooster tail
  • Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
  • SPRO BBZ1

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

  • Ice Jig
  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
  • 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties
  • Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
  • silver,green skirt
  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

    Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Squarebill
  • smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
  • reaction strike jerk in perch
  • Strike King bright yellow minnow
  • Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
  • Strike King Pro Series 1
  • Strike King Squarebill
  • Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
  • Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad
  • Rapala Original Floating Minnow

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 1st was 1lb 6oz
    2nd was 1-1/4lb
    3rd was 1-3/4lb
  • Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
  • All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig

    1st was 2lb 10oz
    2nd was 1lb 7oz
    3rd was 1lb
  • bucky's/sluggos/worms
  • 3/8 ounce green pumpkin Boag Hog Baits jig that I added rattles to and a black/redflake chigger craw trailer
  • same jig as before
  • Boag Hog Brush Jig
  • And Senko
    Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
  • Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
  • JIG N PIG
    4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
    WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
  • Lake fork magic shad
  • yamamoto swimsenko

Wet Fly Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
  • gold little cleo
  • Lil Jake, silver with red dots.

Herring Check Prices

  • Herring Chunk
  • chunks
  • Live lining mackeral

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.
  • trout worms
  • all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • Popper Fishing
  • My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!
  • Popper fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

  • gub on worm hook
  • Dropshot
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Sea Worms
  • Fresh Cut Pogies
  • Seaworms
  • Dough Ball

Other Check Prices

  • Senkos, jitterbug, and KVD 1.5 sunfish color.
  • Hooks baited with clams above a 1lb weight.
  • We used Clams On Jigs with teasers (little grubs)
  • The trout tend to hang in the area I marked on the map.
  • Pogy
  • french bread crust, sitting about 6 inches below the surface
  • Crust of french bread so it will float
  • Chunked, frozen, garbage mackerel.
  • Some people were using jigs, but I had some early success with cut clam, so I stuck with that.
  • Clams fished in 323 feet deep water

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