Fishing near Malden in Middlesex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass, Common Carp
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Malden River
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Fellsmere Pond
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Long Pond
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Ell Pond
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Mystic River
Mystic River

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Malden Area Fish Species

Recent Malden Fishing Reports

As the weather turns Fishing Report May 02, 2013

As the weather turns

Honey Hole -

Today I was supposed to fish a new pond with Dunt when I got out of work. He has Thursdays off so with all the sun and warmth his wife called in sick...

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White Lighting Strikes Fishing Report Sep 16, 2013

White Lighting Strikes

Lake S -

Sam and I hit a local pond Sunday morning around 7 am. We were on his boat so I had the back. I started off throwing a crankbait. I got a dink pret...

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Malden River Fishing Report Jun 20, 2015

Malden River

Malden river -

Went to have a little fun with light gear. Lot's of action, landed 2 in an hour and a half, 5lber and 7lb 9 oz. medium action rod and 6 pound line...

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Malden River and fellesmere Pond Fishing Report Jun 07, 2014

Malden River and fellesmere Pond

Fellsmere Pond -

just having a little fun, stopped and got french rolls, went to malden River by comcast, sight fishing, 1st cast, 15 pd carp, then rowers scared the r...

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2 days on the water Fishing Report May 27, 2014

2 days on the water

Pond A, B and C -

Sam and I met up at 4:45 am on Sunday. We started at pond A. A clear water pond with smallies and largemouth. There were some smallies on beds but it ...

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The old it's a turtle not an 8 pound bass trick Fishing Report Jun 10, 2014

The old it's a turtle not an 8 pound bass trick

Honey Hole -

I was at one of my favorite ponds throwing the frog around and having some luck. I tossed it next to a dock and saw a huge wake come out and then the...

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Baits and Tackle used near Malden

Check Prices

  • Corn , Worms...
  • bomber shad 6-8 feet
    5 in senks
    lake fork magic shad
  • I USE ORANGE SPINNER
  • On live dilly worms (mini-crawlers)
  • Well i was using my Bass Pro Shop Brawler baitcaster with Sufix 50lb Braid with a Strike King chartreuse spinner bait i caught two of the bass and my friend who isn't the biggest fishing fan (working on it) was using my Pflueger Trion Spinning rod and reel combo with 10lb Trilene Monofilament line with a 5 inch Purple Senko texas rigged with a size 4 Gamakatsu hook. I was throwing the spinner bait to the other bank next to some logs and doing a slow retrieve they both hit in about the middle of the river when i let it sink a bit and started retrieving again, my friend was being impatient so he would use the senko like a swim bait and he got hit about 10 feet from the shoreline.
  • Spinners chartreuse/white
  • 5" Senko, watermelon gold flake
  • 3 on the Chatterbait
    3lb 6oz
    2lb 9oz
    1-3/4lber
  • Heddon Swim 'n Image
  • Tube & Worm
    1st Striper of the 2014 season was all 12" maybe. I will add a picture when I get it developed.

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

Creature Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
  • use small tube
  • Tube and huge sea worms
  • tube dark...
  • white tube
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • minitube flourescent
  • T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
    White Ice Zoom Small tube
    White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
  • 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig

Minnow Check Prices

  • Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
  • Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.

    Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
  • Dead minnows
  • 2lb 9oz
    1-1/2lbs
    3-3/4lbs
  • A Couple 2-1/4lbers
    Ten 2lbers
    A Couple 1-3/4lbers
    The rest between 1-1/2lbs and 1lb
  • 1st was 3lb 6oz
    2nd was about 1lb
  • 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
    2nd was 15in
  • Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
  • 1st was 1lb 4oz
    2nd was 10in
  • 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
  • 3/8 oz Hulla Popper
  • Zara spook and jitterbug
  • 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
  • Zara Spook.
  • Hula Popper
  • Jitterbug
  • Top water rappala, and a rooster tail spinner.
  • 3/8 oz. jointed, black Jitterbug. Heavy test, mono leader tied onto braid.
  • MS Slammer hitch

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • White, double silver blade
  • Chartruese w/Red Spinnerbait
  • White spinner bait, willow leaf style blades. Thrown into herring pods on lower lake
  • Brown/Gold w/Red
  • same as before
  • 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
  • White spinnerbait
  • Chartreuse spinnah
  • 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
    1-1/2lber on a craw
  • 3/8 oz. Booyah Counter Strike Spinnerbait (gold, willow leaf, white/chartreause).

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • 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.
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
    1lber on Frog at Heard

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Smaller bass on a 4" rubber worm
    Lunker on a red inline spinner
  • rooster tail
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 2 6" Bass on a 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • All 4 on a 1/8oz Rooster Tail
    Two 6", one 7". one 8"
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
    Girlfriend caught her White Perch on a Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Purpledescent
  • 1st. 9in
    2nd. 8in
    3rd. 4in
  • I couldnt believe this Sally could even bite the hook, lol. So small!!
  • Two 7in'ers
  • 1st. 7in
    2nd. 8in

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Sabiki rig, white
  • shad darts

Nymph Check Prices

  • Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

  • Red zoom worm with green flecks, white spinnerbait, 1/8 oz.
  • 5" Senko baby bass - wacky - unweighted - red hook
  • Pumpkin Senko 5" on a texas rig.
  • 4inch black senko wacky rigged.
  • Zoom finesse worm. Poor fish inhaled it and swallowed the hook (notice the blood). Cut the hook as close to barb as I could and let go, but doubt it survived.
  • Zoom Trick Worm in Watermelon w/Red Flake.
  • Zoom Magnum Trick Worm (Watermelon/Red Flake) rigged Texas-style with 1/8 ounce bullet weight.
  • Zoom trick worm.
  • I have had great success here using two types of worms: a Zoom Trick Worm and a Gary Yamamoto Kuhuna Cut Tail, both in Watermelon/Red Flake. Fish them Texas-rig, weightless, and fish slowly, letting them fall to the bottom.
  • 2 were caught on a 4" Yamamoto cut tail worm in Watermelon and Red flake, the other on a Zoom Trick Worm in Green Pumpkin with Black Flake.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 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
  • 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
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
  • 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
  • .

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.

Craw Check Prices

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

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
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rapala F-7 Original Silver
  • Rooster Tail
    Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • 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
  • 4" black and blue yum dinger

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • SPRO BBZ1
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.

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
  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Strike King Pro Series 1
  • Strike King bright yellow minnow
  • Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
  • Squarebill
  • Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
  • Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad
  • Rapala Original Floating Minnow
  • Rat-l-trap
  • 2 inch minnow shallow diver yellow perch pattern
  • Lipless crankbait rat-l-trap.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
  • Boag Hog Brush Jig
  • 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
  • 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
  • And Senko
    Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
  • JIG N PIG
    4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
    WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
  • 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
  • Jig and pig in the bushes and trees

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
  • Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • 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.
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • gold little cleo
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
  • 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • night crawler on a float
  • live worm on float
  • Kids materials
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • trout worms
  • Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.

Herring Check Prices

  • Herring Chunk
  • Live lining mackeral
  • chunks

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

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
  • Popper fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

  • french bread crust, sitting about 6 inches below the surface
  • Crust of french bread so it will float
  • The trout tend to hang in the area I marked on the map.
  • None.
  • KVD 1.5, Senkos in black with red flake as well as shad colored.
  • Clams, dropped to the bottom. 2.5 foot leader on a baitholder hook.
  • Pogy
  • Chunked mackerel
  • SENKO GREEN
  • Senkos, jitterbug, and KVD 1.5 sunfish color.

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