Fishing near Belchertown in Hampshire County, MA

3.78 Rating based on 165 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, American Shad, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 105
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 180
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Lake trout near Belchertown

Lake trout

Caught this laker at the quabbin 26in 8lbs
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3.5 lber near Belchertown

3.5 lber

caught this in about 1.5 feet of water during the prespawn
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Big bass on Metacomet. near Belchertown

Big bass on Metacomet.

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BIG Pre-spawn bedding bass. near Belchertown

BIG Pre-spawn bedding bass.

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Top Fishing Spots near Belchertown

Metacomet Lake
Metacomet Lake

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
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Forge Pond (cooks Corner)
Forge Pond (cooks Corner)

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 1735

Alden Pond
Alden Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 3873

Ware River
Ware River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 4175

Forest Lake (palmer)
Forest Lake (palmer)

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 4
Views: 6938

Red Bridge Pool
Red Bridge Pool

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 3132

Belchertown Area Fish Species

Recent Belchertown Fishing Reports

The River Swift Fishing Report Sep 30, 2013

The River Swift

Swift River -

My friend Cynthia and I decided to play hooky on a beautiful Friday afternoon to go fly fishing at the Swift River. The Swift flows out of the Quabbin...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Out on Metacomet Lake Fishing Report Jul 28, 2010

Out on Metacomet Lake

Metacomet Lake, Belchertown, MA -

I went out during early May for about 6 hours one day and just pulled in bass after bass using worms and rubber frogs. I caught them all in about 1.5...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Swift River Fishing Report Aug 09, 2012

Swift River

Three River, MA -

My wife, myself, brother in law and his wife went boating down the swift river, but only he got the only bite of the day. Did see some nice looking t...

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 3 Views:
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Metacomet - Belchertown Fishing Report Jan 10, 2013

Metacomet - Belchertown

Lake Metacomet, Belchertown -

Went out Wed. Morning to R&R Sports in Belchertown to pick up shiners. They were out. I talked with 3 different area bait shops and all have run out o...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Swift River Spincasting (Trout Involved) Fishing Report Sep 22, 2011

Swift River Spincasting (Trout Involved)

Swift River -

So I was reading reviews on how "hard" The swift river trout are to catch, So I decided to take a trip down to Hubbardstown which is about 4...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Fishing with Bob Fishing Report Jun 30, 2013

Fishing with Bob

Swift River ,Belchertown/Ware ,MA -

Boat fishing on the Swift River ,Belchertown ,Mass...

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Baits and Tackle used near Belchertown

Check Prices

  • Flies and Jigs
  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
  • minnows, jig
  • soft plastics to live bait
  • 5 Keepers:
    2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers

    2 shorts
  • 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
  • shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
  • shinners
  • senco

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Live Carwfish
  • Big shiners
  • 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
  • 5 inch yellow perch

Creature Check Prices

  • They are called brush hogs, and manufactured by Zoom baits, sold at wal-mart.

Tube Check Prices

Minnow Check Prices

  • you play the bait and bobber set up similar to the canal at the cape.I set the bait at about 24-27",sent it up curent and let it pass you reel it back and repeat.
  • We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones
  • Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
  • large shiners on trokar hooks

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Popper
  • Lunker city Salad Spoon

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • White 3/8 Strike King

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
  • Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala blue and white rattle

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail
  • meppes

Dry Fly Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

  • I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
  • Junebug Zoom worm
  • June Bug colored zoom worms
  • Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
  • Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa Special
  • Zoom Trick worm Color South Africa special
  • Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
  • green pumpkin senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6 inch light green senko

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
  • Surprised I only got one today!
  • 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • Most were caught on a Trout Magnet . 1 on a Rapala and the other on aRooster Tail . Largest fish was the Last one caught . Trout magnet was the right bait to yse today.
  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Gulp Alive

Craw Check Prices

  • Yammamoto flippin hog

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
  • spinner bait
    yamos
    crankbaits
  • nofish but I know they're here sometimes
  • yellow dancin eel
  • Booyah tiger

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 4-1/4lb on a jig
    3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
    two 1lbers on buzzbait
  • All on a swimjig

    My 9.75lb Limit was:
    2lbs 11oz
    2lbs 2oz
    2lbs 1oz
    1lb 8oz
    1lb 6oz

    5 more in the 1-1/4lb to 3/4lb range

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • 4' senko daquiri
  • 4" senkos watermellon gold

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • silver&blue kastmaster

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body
  • Trout Magnet
  • Trout Magnet Jigs
  • Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
    One Brook Trout and one Rainbow.
  • Trout Magnet Jig

Other Check Prices

  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • Corn and Garlic
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Candy
    MMMMMMMMM
  • rainbow or green powerbait
  • Chicken Liver
  • Big
    Dead
  • We use #2 hooks with leaders and tie them to our line
    A 3 oz weight to hold it on the bottom

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