Fishing near Somerville in Middlesex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill, Calico Bass(Black Crappie)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 204
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 1850
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Mystic River
Mystic River

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Alford St. Bridge
Alford St. Bridge

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Malden River
Malden River

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Fellsmere Pond
Fellsmere Pond

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Boardwalk
Boardwalk

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Spy Pond
Spy Pond

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Somerville Area Fish Species

Recent Somerville Fishing Reports

Mystic River Fishing Report Oct 10, 2009

Mystic River

Mystic River, MA -

Went out on the Mystic last Sun for a couple hours before it got dark. Decided to strictly fish the Jig I was determined to finally catch a bass on on...

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Snowy afternoon stripers Fishing Report Dec 11, 2014

Snowy afternoon stripers

Mystic river -

Went to the mystic river to try for some holdovers in the saltwater side. First cast probably a 30 incher followed by a schoolie. Both caught on a swi...

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Mistic River Carp Fishing Report Mar 22, 2012

Mistic River Carp

i live near by and been there few times. There is a lots of big carp in there... The water is very dirty but it does not matter I release all fish tha...

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Late May - mid June. Various ponds Fishing Report Jun 22, 2011

Late May - mid June. Various ponds

Haven't posted any trips lately, so i'll make one post with all my bass from several area ponds, such as Spy Pond, Fellsmere Pond, and Spot Po...

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10/9/10 - Charles River - Watertown to Boston Fishing Report Oct 12, 2010

10/9/10 - Charles River - Watertown to Boston

Charles River - Watertown, MA -

Vinny and I got out on the Watertown to Boston section of the Charles for our 1st times. A little "City Limits" fishing??? Yes, but without ...

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4/10/13 - Possible New Honey Hole Fishing Report Apr 11, 2013

4/10/13 - Possible New Honey Hole

Somewhere on the Northshore, MA -

Sorry guys, not giving this one up yet. I know some of you know this place, but its super small, and I want to put some time in here to see what its c...

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Baits and Tackle used near Somerville

Check Prices

  • Corn , Worms...
  • Senko (purple/blue flake)
    Zoom Super Fluke (bass color w/ incidental pumpkinseed color)
  • On live dilly worms (mini-crawlers)
  • jitterbug; 3" floating repala.
  • Senkos
  • 5" Senko
  • SkippyFish, Senko
  • 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.
  • Senko, 4" watermelon, red flake
  • Live shiners about a foot off the bottom entice lots of strikes

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
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • Sea worm

Creature Check Prices

  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • Green pumpkin sweet beaver
  • 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
  • Creature Bait on Shakey Head
  • 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 dark...
  • Tube and huge sea worms
  • 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

Minnow Check Prices

  • Dead minnows
  • 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.
  • 2lb 9oz
    1-1/2lbs
    3-3/4lbs
  • 1st was 3lb 6oz
    2nd was about 1lb
  • Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
  • A Couple 2-1/4lbers
    Ten 2lbers
    A Couple 1-3/4lbers
    The rest between 1-1/2lbs and 1lb
  • 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
    2nd was 15in
  • One 2lber
    Two 1-3/4lbers
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
  • 1st was 1lb 4oz
    2nd was 10in

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.
  • Senko.
  • Senko
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
  • 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
  • 1st was 13" 1lb
    2nd was 6"
  • 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • White spinner bait, willow leaf style blades. Thrown into herring pods on lower lake
  • Chartruese w/Red Spinnerbait
  • Brown/Gold w/Red
  • White, double silver blade
  • 3/8 oz. Booyah Counter Strike Spinnerbait (gold, willow leaf, white/chartreause).
  • Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye 3/8 oz. White and Chartreuse
  • same as before
  • White spinnerbait
  • 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
  • Chartreuse spinnah

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • 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.
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • 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

  • 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"
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • 1st. 8in
    2nd. 6in
  • Two 7in'ers
  • 1st. 7in
    2nd. 8in
  • I couldnt believe this Sally could even bite the hook, lol. So small!!
  • All Between 7 an 8 inches
  • 1st. 9in
    2nd. 8in
    3rd. 4in

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Sabiki rig, white
  • shad darts

Worm Check Prices

  • 5" Yum Dinger, black w/ blue fleck, weightless t-rig
  • Berkley power worm, texas rig, in junebug
  • 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.
  • Gary Yamamoto Yamasenko. 5" black with red fleck
  • Caught the big guy on a Berkley powerbait 10' powerworm, Rigged texas with a 1/4 oz bullet sinker to penatrate the thick stuff. Also caught one on a spook,walkin the dog
  • Gary Yamamoto Senko in Pumpkinseed, rigged Texas.
  • Zoom trick worm.
  • Zoom Magnum Trick Worm (Watermelon/Red Flake) rigged Texas-style with 1/8 ounce bullet weight.
  • Zoom finesse worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • 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
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Storm shad mullet color
  • xps swimbait

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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
  • Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
    1st was a little over a 1lb
    2nd was 12"
    3rd was 2lbs 2oz
  • Dropshot
  • 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
    3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • .

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

  • Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • Rooster tail
  • Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rapala F-7 Original Silver
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rooster Tail
    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
  • Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.

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
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • 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.
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • 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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • SPRO BBZ1
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.

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
  • 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.
  • Deep diver Purple slow retreive
  • Strike King bright yellow minnow
  • Strike King Minnow in bright yellow

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
  • Boag Hog Brush Jig
  • And Senko
    Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
  • JIG N PIG
    4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
    WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
  • 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
  • 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
  • All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig

    1st was 2lb 10oz
    2nd was 1lb 7oz
    3rd was 1lb
  • 1st was 1lb 6oz
    2nd was 1-1/4lb
    3rd was 1-3/4lb
  • 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.
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • Lake fork magic shad
  • Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • 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
  • White Wooly bugger
  • White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Red and White 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
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • 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.
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • trout worms
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.

Herring Check Prices

  • Herring Chunk
  • Live lining mackeral

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

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

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Fresh Cut Pogies
  • Seaworms
  • Sea Worms
  • 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

  • Crust of french bread so it will float
  • french bread crust, sitting about 6 inches below the surface
  • None.
  • KVD 1.5, Senkos in black with red flake as well as shad colored.
  • SENKO GREEN
  • Natural Berkley Honey worm
  • Power Bait
  • Chartreuse power bait. Slip rig with a one once egg sinker and about two feet of leader.
  • Powerbait
  • Rainbow powerbait

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