Fishing near North Reading in Middlesex County, MA

Check Prices

• 1lb 13oz on a creature bait on a jig head
  2-1/4lber on a Squarebill
• Soft plastic 8" worm
• I USE ORANGE SPINNER
• Pop-R
• Tube
• Rage Trout Swimbait
• bomber shad 6-8 feet
  5 in senks
  lake fork magic shad
• Strike King lipless crank bait
• Gulp crappie nibbles
• Power Eggs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Sea worm
• Live mackerel
• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• 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
• Live eels
• SEAWORMS
• A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.

Creature Check Prices

• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• 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.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits

Tube Check Prices

• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• Tube and huge sea worms
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• 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
• use small tube
• tube dark...
• white tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• minitube flourescent

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 ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
• 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
  2nd was 15in
• Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
• One 2lber
  Two 1-3/4lbers
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
• 1st was 3lb 6oz
  2nd was about 1lb
• 2lb 9oz
  1-1/2lbs
  3-3/4lbs
• hooked through back on tipup
• Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Black buzzbait with a black blade
• FROG
• Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
• MS Slammer hitch
• Jitterbug
• Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
• 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
• Zara spook and jitterbug
• 3/8 oz Hulla Popper
• Zara Spook.

Lizard Check Prices

• 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 .
• Baby bass lizard
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• hit while sinking

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

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.
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• 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.
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Ribbit frog
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard

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
• Trolling main channel
• Rapala F05 BCF
  Rebel minnow F07 Silver
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• pumkin stick bait, yumm
• rapala
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in
• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1st. 5in
  2nd. 10in 8oz
• Smaller bass on a 4" rubber worm
  Lunker on a red inline spinner
• rooster tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail
• 4" and 5" Sunfish

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Senko for bass
  
  Hotdog on the bobbah for cattys
• Wacky riggin senkos
• Senko and froggys
• Senko
• 2 inch neon rubber worm
• Five between 12"-8"
  One was 14" 1lb 1oz
  Last was 13-1/2" 1lb
• 4 Bass around 10", and 1 was 1lb
• Four in the 10-11 inch range
• Wacky
  1st was 1-1/4lbs
  2nd was 1-1/8lbs
  3rd was 10"
  4th was 15" 1-3/4lbs
• 6in on a Rapala Floater
  7in on a Rooster Tail
  13in 1lb on senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"

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
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog
• .
• 1 on a baby bass colored lizard and another on a baby bass colored senko
• Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!
• Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
• Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot
  
  Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)
  
  
• 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
• Drop Shot
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"

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

• Yum black/blue craw
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
• 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
• crawdads and soft frogs

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster tail
• Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
• 4" black and blue yum dinger
• Green bigfoot scum frog
  Tan/brown Koppers hollow body frog
  Watermelonseed 5" Zoom super fluke
  Green pumpkin booyah boo jig w/ Rage craw trailer green pumpkin
  bluegill 3/8 oz. chatterbait w/ watermelon red flake swimmin' fluke
• Koppers livetarget frog
  scumfrog little bigfoot frog
  zoom super fluke
• Bluegill flash 5 inch super fluke
  Bluegill chatterbait with a watermelon pearl lft swimbait
  1/4 ounce blk/blu booyah baby boo jig with a black yum craw papi
  2 inch baby bass bps grub
• Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
• Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
• Blue Fox Vibrax series
• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• SPRO BBZ1
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown

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"
• 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
• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• jig n pig

Crankbait Check Prices

• smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
• reaction strike jerk in perch
• Squarebill
• Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
• Strike King bright yellow minnow
• Silver body with a black back
• Strike King Pro Series 1
• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
• Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
• Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 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
• 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
• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
• Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
• Boag Hog Brush Jig
• Black n blue jig n pig
• 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
• And Senko
  Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
• 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
• Lake fork magic shad
• yamamoto swimsenko
• Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
• Berkeley GULP!
• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• on tipups shallow as heck
• Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
• Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.
• We used Live Night Crawlers and a few Live Moths
• worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies
• night crawler on a float
• live worm on float
• Kids materials
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom... and another surprise to pull this guy off the bottom.
• Sent to the bottom, as far into the drop off as I could cast.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Herring Check Prices

• Herring Chunk
• chunks

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.
• swedish pimp

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
• Popper fishing off the boat

Blade Bait Check Prices

• chartruce and whit chatter bait
• Daredevil
• Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• gub on worm hook
• Dropshotting
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

• The trout tend to hang in the area I marked on the map.
• Sucker Punch Bait Lead Free Micro Shad dart, pink 1/32 oz, pink with silver flash
• Our sualy bait bucket include feed corn, maple peas, chick peas, dat food boilies, luncheon meat and a good ground/chum mix.
  
  Our Ground/chum mixes tend to include bread crumb, oats, cream corn, birdseed
  
  Chick peas were tearing them up here. Few off Dat food as well but the Chicks were definitely looked for and taken readily.
  
  
• Senkos, jitterbug, and KVD 1.5 sunfish color.
• Dat food and chick peas performed well once again. Maple peas had a run but we lost the fish.
• Velveeta and bread...who knew?
• again oatmeal
• i use just plain old oatmeal with a special homemade dippin' sauce
• Much like many of the spots along the Merrimack we have been hitting. Chick peas and Dat food have constantly out-performed everything else.
• french bread crust, sitting about 6 inches below the surface