Fishing near Wilmington in Middlesex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass, Common Carp
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 230
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gotta love sunfish, kids do! near Wilmington

gotta love sunfish, kids do!

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Ice fishing near Wilmington

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mouth of cove near Wilmington

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Top Fishing Spots near Wilmington

Silver Lake
Silver Lake

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Concord St. Pond
Concord St. Pond

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Martins Pond
Martins Pond

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Shawsheen River
Shawsheen River

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Mill Pond Reservoir
Mill Pond Reservoir

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Ipswich Access At Haverhill Street
Ipswich Access At Haverhill Street

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Wilmington Area Fish Species

Recent Wilmington Fishing Reports

martins pond Fishing Report Jul 29, 2012

martins pond

Martins pond ,north reading ma -

caught 5lber on pumkinseed senko.alot of catfish here and big big snapping turtles!...

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Martins Fishing Report Aug 28, 2009

Martins

Martins Pond -

Been fishing here about 8 times this year, fished all types of lures topwater, plastics, spinnerbaits. Only caought 3 fish total. All on topwater and ...

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Ice fishing Fishing Report Jan 27, 2010

Ice fishing

Martin's Lake -

Ice fishing, sunny day around 30 degrees...

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Martins Pond 4/22 Fishing Report Apr 22, 2014

Martins Pond 4/22

Martins pond, North Reading, MA -

I hit martins to test out the new motor and get some fishing in. Let the water warm up a bit before I headed out, wanted to let fish move towards shal...

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Fostahs lunk Fishing Report Aug 28, 2014

Fostahs lunk

Fosters pond -

Our homefield...

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Fostahs canoe trip Fishing Report Jun 19, 2014

Fostahs canoe trip

Fosters pond -

Get hooked New England trip to fosters. 12 fish total 3-9 pm...

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Baits and Tackle used near Wilmington

Check Prices

  • 1lb 13oz on a creature bait on a jig head
    2-1/4lber on a Squarebill
  • Tube
  • Pop-R
  • Rage Trout Swimbait
  • Strike King lipless crank bait
  • Gulp crappie nibbles
  • hotdoggin on a bobber with some baconnn $$$
  • I USE ORANGE SPINNER
  • bomber shad 6-8 feet
    5 in senks
    lake fork magic shad
  • Won't let me add photo

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Sea worm
  • Live mackerel
  • 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.
  • Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
  • 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
  • A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • 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
  • Green pumpkin sweet beaver
  • 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
  • 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.
  • Creature Bait on Shakey Head
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Tube and huge sea worms
  • 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

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • FROG
  • Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
  • Black buzzbait with a black blade
  • 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

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 8" & 10" Largemouth
  • 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
  • Senko
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
  • 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
  • Senko.
  • 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 1st was 13" 1lb
    2nd was 6"

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Joes fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

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.
  • 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.
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • 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
  • Trolling main channel
  • Rapala Original Silver
  • 5" Yamamoto green
    1/4 oz Crankbait
  • Rapala F05 BCF
    Rebel minnow F07 Silver
  • Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
  • pumkin stick bait, yumm
  • Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
    3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
  • 1st. 12in 12oz
    2nd. 11.5in 10oz
    3rd. 11.5in 9oz
  • 1st. 7in
    2nd. 7 3/4in
  • 1st. 5in
    2nd. 10in 8oz
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • Smaller bass on a 4" rubber worm
    Lunker on a red inline spinner
  • rooster tail
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • 4" and 5" Sunfish
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
    Girlfriend caught her White Perch on a Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Purpledescent

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • shad darts
  • Sabiki rig, white

Nymph Check Prices

  • Gold bead head Prince black

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • Wacky riggin senkos
  • Senko for bass

    Hotdog on the bobbah for cattys
  • Senko and froggys
  • Five between 12"-8"
    One was 14" 1lb 1oz
    Last was 13-1/2" 1lb
  • 4 Bass around 10", and 1 was 1lb
  • 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
  • Senko
  • Four in the 10-11 inch range
  • 1lber, and 1/2lber

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • 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
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
  • Storm Shad Minnow

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
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • 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
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • 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
  • .
  • 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
  • Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
    1st was a little over a 1lb
    2nd was 12"
    3rd was 2lbs 2oz
  • Drop Shot
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
  • Dropshot
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range

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
  • 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
  • Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
  • crawdads and soft frogs
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • 4" black and blue yum dinger
  • Rooster tail
  • Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
  • 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
  • Blue Fox Vibrax series
  • Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.
  • Rubber worms frogs,spinners
    All worked
  • Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
  • reaction strike jerk in perch
  • Squarebill
  • Silver body with a black back
  • Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
  • Strike King bright yellow minnow
  • Strike King Pro Series 1
  • Shiners are cheating here...
    Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
  • Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 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
  • Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
  • same jig as before
  • 3/8 ounce green pumpkin Boag Hog Baits jig that I added rattles to and a black/redflake chigger craw trailer
  • Boag Hog Brush Jig
  • Black n blue jig n pig
  • Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
  • 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
  • And Senko
    Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

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
  • Berkeley GULP!
  • Reaction Innovations
    4.5" Little Dipper
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • 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
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
  • on tipups shallow as heck
  • 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
  • Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • 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.

Herring Check Prices

  • Herring Chunk
  • chunks

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.
  • 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
  • Popper Fishing
  • 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
  • Dropshotting
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • gub on worm hook

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

  • Velveeta and bread...who knew?
  • Dat food and chick peas performed well once again. Maple peas had a run but we lost the fish.
  • The trout tend to hang in the area I marked on the map.
  • i use just plain old oatmeal with a special homemade dippin' sauce
  • Sucker Punch Bait Lead Free Micro Shad dart, pink 1/32 oz, pink with silver flash
  • Much like many of the spots along the Merrimack we have been hitting. Chick peas and Dat food have constantly out-performed everything else.
  • 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.

  • None.
  • Bread Balls and Canned Corn
  • Oatmeal is the bait of choice from the locals. Simon and I also brought feed corn, boilies, chick peas, a few dough baits and a grits based pack bait.

    all action was from our Dat food boilies ( pineapple and strawberry) and the grits based pack bait. Oatmeal produced one good run, and a few nibbles.

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