Fishing near Nahant in Essex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Common Carp
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 165
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 1421
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Top Fishing Spots near Nahant

Nahant Bay
Nahant Bay

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Lynn Harbor
Lynn Harbor

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Ymca Pond
Ymca Pond

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Floating Bridge Pond
Floating Bridge Pond

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Flax
Flax

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Flax Pond
Flax Pond

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Nahant Area Fish Species

Recent Nahant Fishing Reports

Trout-O-Rama Fishing Report May 01, 2013

Trout-O-Rama

super secret trout honey hole -

After dropping the kids off at school this morning I snuck over to my new super secret trout honey hole for a few casts of the 5 wt. The trout were ju...

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what a day what a day Fishing Report Jul 24, 2011

what a day what a day

Lake Groom Nevada -

Fishing has been good, went out last night and caught a 4 lb plus and several high 3's. I decided to hit up my honey hole today in the am. On the...

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Striped bass... Fall run....  Fishing Report Sep 25, 2013

Striped bass... Fall run....

Various Locations Within City Limits, Boston, MA -

They're starting to trickle in...

Have been going the past two days at just before dusk and have yet to get skunked.

Most caught o...

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Unknown Weight Lunker! But with pics... Fishing Report May 18, 2012

Unknown Weight Lunker! But with pics...

Central MA -

Went out with a buddy from work that I knew only because we both like fishing and with a 35 thousand dollar Nitro boat that's also a plus I would ...

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Nice fat linesider action.  Fishing Report Oct 12, 2013

Nice fat linesider action.

Winthrop, MA -

Got out to my spot as the tide started rolling out... Threw the sp (with new split rings and hooks!), nothing. Threw a bunch of bucktails, also nothi...

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Calm before the storm Fishing Report Aug 26, 2011

Calm before the storm

Northshore -

I figured with this hurricane coming in a few days and the rain, the bite should be on. I was right. My first cast of the jig I hit a pound and a ha...

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Baits and Tackle used near Nahant

Check Prices

  • Mackerel Chunk
    Berkly Power Bait, 3" Paddle Tail
    Artificial Crab
  • KVD 1.5, sunfish colored
  • Tube & Worm
    1st Striper of the 2014 season was all 12" maybe. I will add a picture when I get it developed.
  • Soft plastic 8" worm
  • Floating seaworms, glowstick bobber technique.
  • Floating seaworms, glow in dark stick attached to bobber.
  • Floating seaworms, glow in the dark stick on bobber.
  • Corn , Worms...
  • bomber shad 6-8 feet
    5 in senks
    lake fork magic shad
  • THE FRESHEST, BLOODIEST MACKEREL chunks. Nobody with store bought chunks were hitting anything.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
  • live mackerel
  • Live eels
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • SEAWORMS
  • Sea worm
  • 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.
  • Live mackerel
  • Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.

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
  • tube dark...
  • use small tube
  • white tube
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner

Creature Check Prices

  • Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
  • Creature Bait on Shakey Head
  • 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
  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig

Minnow Check Prices

  • A Couple 2-1/4lbers
    Ten 2lbers
    A Couple 1-3/4lbers
    The rest between 1-1/2lbs and 1lb
  • Dead minnows
  • 2lb 9oz
    1-1/2lbs
    3-3/4lbs
  • 1st was 3lb 6oz
    2nd was about 1lb
  • 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
    2nd was 15in
  • 1st was 1lb 4oz
    2nd was 10in
  • Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
  • 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
  • One 2lber
    Two 1-3/4lbers
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
  • Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Jitterbug
  • Hula Popper
  • MS Slammer hitch
  • Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
  • pencil popper
  • 3/8 oz Hulla Popper
  • Zara spook and jitterbug
  • 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
  • Zara Spook.
  • 3/8 jointed Jitterbug in black.

Lizard Check Prices

  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
  • 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
  • Baby bass lizard
  • Red/Red
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • White, double silver blade
  • 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
    1-1/2lber on a craw
  • 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
  • Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye 3/8 oz. White and Chartreuse

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • 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.
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.

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 Shadow Rap (silver)
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
  • small ultra lite baits

    many species of fish caught over the years; trout, salmon, largemouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, calico bass, pickerel, blue gills.
    The 100 is estimated
  • Jerkbait - Both were about the same size

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

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

  • Two 1lbers, and 4 others between 10"-12" off docks, and oeverhanging brush
  • Gulp red "bloodworms"
  • Soft Plastic
  • 4inch black senko wacky rigged.
  • Zoom Ultravibe Speed Worm in Junebug
  • 4" Berkley power Bait, Pink and purple. Texas Rigged
  • Red zoom worm with green flecks, white spinnerbait, 1/8 oz.
  • Pumpkin Senko 5" on a texas rig.
  • 5" Senko baby bass - wacky - unweighted - red hook
  • 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"
  • Storm shad mullet color
  • 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

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • Dropshot
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!

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
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Powerbait
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rapala F-7 Original Silver
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rooster Tail
    Rapala F-5 Original

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
  • Ice Jig
  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

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

Crankbait Check Prices

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

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
  • 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
  • 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
  • And Senko
    Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
  • JIG N PIG
    4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
    WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • manns stone 3/8 jig

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
  • Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Lake fork magic shad
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • 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
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • gold little cleo
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)

Herring Check Prices

  • Herring Chunk
  • Live lining mackeral
  • chunks

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
  • rattler
  • 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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.
  • trout worms
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • night crawler on a float
  • live worm on float
  • Kids materials
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

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
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • 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
  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • gub on worm hook
  • Berkley White Grub.
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
  • Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
  • Dropshotting

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Senkos, jitterbug, and KVD 1.5 sunfish color.
  • Pogy
  • Chunked, frozen, garbage mackerel.
  • Chunked mackerel
  • Clams, dropped to the bottom. 2.5 foot leader on a baitholder hook.
  • The trout tend to hang in the area I marked on the map.
  • french bread crust, sitting about 6 inches below the surface
  • Crust of french bread so it will float
  • Fresh, caught that day, small mackerels. Steel leader, size 8 hook.
  • Chunked mackerel. Fresh. Baitshop frozen doesn't make the cut here...

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