Fishing near Merrimac in Essex County, MA

Check Prices

• medium golden shiners from merrimac sports
• Strike King Black Spinnerbait
• culprut and gary
• White Power Eggs
• White power eggs.
• Used a rattle trap (not sure if there's another name for it. Couldn't find it listed. I'm pretty new still.) I reeled it pretty fast, pause and let it come up a bit and so on. Bass hit it hard about 12 feet from bridge, on right side under some trees.
• Pescaviva trout/shrimp/scopex
  Dat food scopex/cherry-choco-nut
  WCB Scopex pop-ups
  various Dat food Doughs
  chickj peas
  Sweet/spicy method mix
• We used a variety of things. Chick peas and Dat food are staples now, never do I go anywhere without them. This trip I added Pescaviva "trout pellet" flavored sweet corn, Wacker Bait Pips in Tutti Fruity. The winning combo of the day was 1 chick on top of two sweet corn on a long hair.
  
  
• Chicks Peas are slamming them right now. Pescaviva corn trout pellet flavored is also producing. We always have DAT food as well and Maple peas
• Our typical Merrimack bucket contains DAt food boilies, chick peas as well as a bread crumb/anise/oats/ferret food ground bait.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• fishing bottom with hand dug worms
• A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
• A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
• Clams
• Mackerel on a baitrunner.
• Fresh live mackeral
• Mackerel
• Sea worm
• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• Live mackerel

Tube Check Prices

• 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
• T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
  White Ice Zoom Small tube
  White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
• Tube and huge sea worms
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.

Creature Check Prices

• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
• 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
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• 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
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• Berkley Havoc Pit Boss
• orange pumpkin with red and black flake, watermelon with gold and black flake creatures
  
  strike king crankbait
  
  white spinnerbait

Minnow Check Prices

• hooked through back on tipup
• Live minnows
• Live Minnows
• Live Shiner
• We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
• Live minnow
• Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
• Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
• We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
• pinners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Bone Zara spook
• Black buzzbait with a black blade
• FROG
• Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
• Xcalibur jimmy
• 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
• MS Slammer hitch
• Jitterbug
• jitterbug
• rebel popr

Lizard Check Prices

• hit while sinking
• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• Baby bass lizard
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-Go
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 8" & 10" Largemouth
• Caffiene Shad

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Giant white double bladed buzzbait
• Dark Colors
• Chartuese w/ Green
• Spinner Baits
  Jigs (Texas Rig)
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
• 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
  1-1/2lber on a craw

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

• powerbait nuggets
• Jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• a couple of types of different of single hook only lures
• White Rooster Tail
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• 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
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• shad darts
• Non-Keeper
• Sabiki rig, white
• cast masters and diamond jig
• Giant swedish pimple

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Tried Yums And Yamamotos...
  White/Gray,Purple/Black,Tan/Brown,BladeDancer...Finally, old faithful,Watermelon 7"...
• texas rig
• reeled real slow, weightless
• just a pumpkin 7" worm and a gulp worm
• Wacky Senko Worm
• Green and Purple Power Bait 7" power worm. "the hulk". Caught a little guy. Maybe a pound but most likely a little under.
• Senko and jig
• yamamoto senkos texas rigged or wacky
• Trolling a bronze 2-way spinner hook and rather large nightcrawler.
• wacky-rigged yum dinger

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Dark senko texas rigged
• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"

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

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
• Spinnerbait
• Rooster Tail
• 6/30 on Rooster Tail
  7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
• Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.
  
  Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
• sluggos
• Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
• Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked

Craw Check Prices

• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
• Yum black/blue craw
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• dark colored with red
  Strike king #3
• and senkos too
• #3 crank bait dark colored
• Strike King sexy shad 2.5
• Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
• KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
• Silver shad crank
• Bluegill squarebill cranks
• Blue gill crankbait
• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
• bucky's/sluggos/worms
• Black n blue jig n pig
• 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
• 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
• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
• Wolly Bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Srike King 3/4 oz red eyed shad,gold black back.7' mojo bass -st.croix crank rod with Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb.Stop and rip out of surmerged grass.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom.
• Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
• Sent to the bottom, as far into the drop off as I could cast.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom... and another surprise to pull this guy off the bottom.
• Silver 2-way spinner hook.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. To be expected with Catfish.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. Since Pickerel don't usually bottom feed, and didn't hit on the retrieve, I was a bit surprised...
• Sent to the bottom, just in deeper water than the first two.
• Sent to the bottom.
• Sent straight to the bottom and waited it out.

Herring Check Prices

• chunks

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms
• Clams
  1st was 25"
  2nd was 20"
• Calms - All Between 10"-12"
• Calms - 25" and a 18"
• Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
• Calms - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds
• Clams
• chunked herrin

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Daredevil
• Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
• chartruce and whit chatter bait
• Micro King
  Caffiene Shad
• micro King

Grub Check Prices

• gub on worm hook
• Dropshot

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

• shiners, p-bait, worms, small spinners,spoons u name it
• Bread
• Maple-Banana Maize
  Pescaviva sweet corn
  Chicks
  Dat Food Boilies Scopex
  
• again oatmeal
• just your regular brand of hot-dog, essems are the fav.
• Canned Corn
• Dog food boilie
• Clam
• clam
• clams