Fishing near Bourne in Barnstable County, MA

3.77 Rating based on 274 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Other (Saltwater), Scup (Porgy)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 169
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 433
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June Striper Trip near Bourne

June Striper Trip

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stripers are here near Bourne

stripers are here

32" 12 LB C/C cannal
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Herring Run near Bourne

Herring Run

west of the herring run opening
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Top Fishing Spots near Bourne

Queen Sewell Pond
Queen Sewell Pond

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Cape Cod Canal
Cape Cod Canal

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Buttermilk Bay
Buttermilk Bay

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Upper Shawme
Upper Shawme

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Little Sandy Pond
Little Sandy Pond

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# Reviews: 4
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Shawme Pond
Shawme Pond

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Bourne Area Fish Species

Recent Bourne Fishing Reports

The canal Fishing Report Jun 26, 2014

The canal

canal -

My third time going to the canal the first two times.i went out i had no odea what i was doing i went with a nine foot rod the line was soo okd i coul...

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Stripers with the Black Rose Fishing Report Jan 14, 2009

Stripers with the Black Rose

Mass. Maritime Academy -

We went fishing this past June and had the best fishing of our lives. In 12 casts, we had 12 keeper stripers lying on the deck of our boat. I've...

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buzzards bay  Fishing Report Oct 09, 2008

buzzards bay

cape cod ma -

the mouth of of the canal. i ancored just out of the channel at dusk and i stayed to about midnight. eels on the bottom seem to work best but full squ...

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Herring Run Fishing Report Feb 22, 2011

Herring Run

Cape Cod Canal -

caught a nice striper there using my med weight fresh water outfit. was casting a yo-zuri crystal minnow and got a monster strike. basically caught me...

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Great Herring Pond Tournament Fishing Report May 23, 2010

Great Herring Pond Tournament

Great Herring Pond, Plymouth, MA -

This was the 2010 season opener for the Cabin Fever Bass Club. The weather was sunny and windy, and with Great Herring being very open and wind-swept,...

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Great Herring Pond 1 Fishing Report Apr 21, 2012

Great Herring Pond 1

Great herring Pond -

Trip to prefish GHP with Bro Joe. Many small sm caught (20), with about a dozen of legal length up to 2lbs. 13 Lms were caught all of legal size with ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Bourne

Check Prices

  • We used live shiners, 3-4 inch, and any lure you can think of. They crush anything at this place...HUNGRY fish...
  • Ultra light mitchell spidercast reel combo 4lb test, fun fun fun. when the bass aren't hitting
  • frogs
  • Drop Shot
    1st was 11-1/2"
    2nd was 6"
  • Drop Shot
  • Senko. Purple with purple flake
  • Senko purple with purple flake.
  • Worm
  • Rubber worm Wacky Style
  • You can use just about any lures here, as we've had luck with all of em. Also, Nightcrawlers and shiners work good.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • eels on the bottom
  • We used worms to catch smaller fish cast them out and brought them back in slowly
  • wroms
  • Used some Medium Shinners
  • Used live bait and also sanko.
  • eels
  • Sand Eels
  • Clams
  • sandworms
  • sea worms

Creature Check Prices

  • You already know
  • Berkley Pit Boss in Junebug, Green Pumpkin and Black / Blue
  • Green pumpkin Brush Hog
    5" wacky rigged green pumpkin stick bait (senko knockoff)
  • texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Strike King KVD Bluegill Swim Jig
  • Flipping a laydown
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten

Tube Check Prices

  • 1 Keeper:
    1-1/4lbs

    1 Short
  • 2 Keepers:
    1.79lbs
    1lb

    2 shorts

Minnow Check Prices

  • shiners hooked behind the dorsal fin with a #2 circle hook on about 30in. leader of 20# flurocarbon.
  • Shiner live lining.
  • Shiners, 3-4 inch
  • Live minnow under a float
  • Large (heavies) shiners
  • mumpers
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
  • I was using a Super Spook Jr and 6" blue/black senkos.
  • pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.
  • throwing floating minnow under the docks along shore, pulling crappies and pickerel, 1 good size bass, 2+lbs but he got off the hook.

Lizard Check Prices

  • slow dragged threw beds

    also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie
  • watermelon zoom brush hog jr. on carolina rig w 1/2 oz worm weight
  • Downsized carolina 1/4 oz weigth w5 inch watermelon red zoom lizard
  • 5 inch watermelon red zoom lizard downsized carolina rig

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • berkley slug baby bass color
  • This Big Bastard Stole My Lure!
  • 5 between 3" and 11"
  • pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear
  • Shad colored 5" Senko
  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades
  • 3 chain pickerel on a silver/white 1/8oz Strike King Mini-King spinnerbait - 1 largemouth bass on watermelon/red flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick(a Senko-type lure)
  • Mann's Shadow

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Barbie color spinnerbait cranking from out from shore line. This fish hit in about 10 ft of water had a couple of more followers but that was it. Then the winds and rain picked up and it was tuff fishing from there on in .My boater caught a nice one about 4 hrs later with a crank bait and that was it on the hits fished many of the same spots as Micahel K draging jigs and tubes not a bite. big fish of the day was 6+ large mouth and a 5+ smallie
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • Mepps Agila inline spinner silver and red #1.
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2.
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2
  • STRIKE KING SPINNER
  • Spinnerbait, Drop shot
  • med speed retrieve
  • Strike king bleeding spinner bait... Casting to an over hanging tree
  • Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait, white skirt, double-willow blades

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Paycheck Baits "Transporter
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
  • Stanley Ribbit
  • Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits

Squid Check Prices

  • i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Ima Flit 100 Chartreuse Shad
  • 4" huskey jerk bait greenw/orange bottom
  • 4in senkos in various colors
  • Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Golden Shiner pattern.
  • rapala xrap smallest size black silver...jerk pause retreive....

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • Trolling or tossing in-line spinners. Powerbait mello's
  • Joes fly
  • 7 and 8 inches
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches
  • Panther Martin spinner
  • Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • 8 inchWatermelon senko w/ red hook
  • Berkley 7" Black Shad
    Berkley 7" Tequila Sunrise
  • Used a watermelon/gold fleck senko worm, rooster tail, and popper
  • Texas rigged Berkley Gulp 4" crawler.
  • Wacky Style
  • 5" senko worm, wacky style
  • 5" senko worms, wacky style. Used alot of scent, and kept bait moving, bumping it off the bottom.
  • Rubber worms Wacky style
  • wacky style pumpkin
  • Started with pumpkinseed lizard and switched to 5" baby bass senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.
  • Bladed baits
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 3 healthy Pickerel
  • 3 shorts
  • Paul had a 3.90lb, 2-3/4lber, 2lber, 1-3/4lber, and two 1lbers

    I had a 1-1/2lber, and a 1lber
  • My big fish was 2.03lbs, also a 1-1/4lber, and a 1lber
  • Dropshot
  • 1lb, 3/4lb, 11', and 8" on the Drop Shot, 10" on C-Rig
  • Drop shot
  • Keepers were:
    2.77lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1-1/2lbs
    1-1/4lbs

    One 11" short
  • My limit was:
    2.30lbs
    Three 1lbers
    13oz

  • Drop Shot
    1 Keeper @ 1-3/4lbs
    Four 11" range shorts

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • GOOD OLD SENKO
  • trolling a white unbrella rig from island to the red bouy. while trolling i threw medium size stick crank baits off the side and hooked up. i would make sure your hooks are strong we had a few straighten out and loss the fish
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • Black senko worm

Craw Check Prices

  • used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • yo-zuri crystal minnow
  • Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • 7" dark trout 2x slammer
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • blue reble

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

  • using rainbow jig with a 2 sinker.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White Belly and blue back
    Diving Billed Plug, White Belly grey back
  • 3 on Squarebill, 1 on Drop Shot.
  • 2lb 6oz, and 1lb 2oz
  • rapala bleeding floater
  • Rapala Perch
  • Strike King KVD 1.5 Sexy Shad
  • Relentless all day!!!!!
  • My 2 limit Fish were 1lb 5oz, and 1lb 4oz

    Vinny had a 2lb 4oz, 1lb 4oz, and 1lb 3oz
  • 1-Minus crankbait in a Bluegill pattern
  • kevin van damn sexy chad, silver/black shiner with red accent and center mass bearings crankbaits

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • SENKO / GREEN/WHITE
    BROWN/PINK
    NO WIEGHT
    8 POND LINE
  • 1/2 Oz Brownish/Greenish football jig w/Green Pumpkin Chigger Chunk trailer
  • Throwing a sweet beaver pegged with a 3/8 oz threw the mats and caught a pickerel and ripped the beaver to shred's.
  • Jigs in shoreline cover did 95% of the damage
  • Black and blue finesse jig. Rigged with a black with red fleck zoom chunk. Worked slowly along bottom

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Northland minnow

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
  • a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • I seem to have lots of luck with these at that pond, lol
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • just put a nightcarwler on there and drop nit in ull have a bass as soon as u look blink
  • cast it to the side near the littel pump house but farther out

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Sea Worm on a slider rig

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

Grub Check Prices

  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.
  • White grub
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).

Live Baits Check Prices

  • squid/ clam/ mackerel typically

Flies Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • Twitch twitch pause with a jerkbait
  • yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
  • chartruse power bait
  • Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
    (Lunker City)
  • 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds
  • Rainbow Power Bait
  • Sand Eels

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