Fishing near Chicopee in Hampden County, MA

3.72 Rating based on 133 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, American Shad, Brook Trout, Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 89
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 169
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Ct River near Chicopee

Ct River

nice mat, thanks Jaraslow
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Ct River near Chicopee

Ct River

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Ct River near Chicopee

Ct River

Shad baby

my first
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Ct River near Chicopee

Ct River

tale of the tape
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Ct River near Chicopee

Ct River

Chris and a Great SMILE!!!!
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Top Fishing Spots near Chicopee

Chicopee Reservoir
Chicopee Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 4.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5736

Chicopee River
Chicopee River

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5162

Van Horn Pond
Van Horn Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1320

Blunt Pond
Blunt Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1683

Lake Lorraine
Lake Lorraine

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 4973

Long Pond (springfield)
Long Pond (springfield)

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1394

Chicopee Area Fish Species

Recent Chicopee Fishing Reports

Chicopee river Fishing Report Mar 31, 2013

Chicopee river

Chicopee,ma -

Fishing on kayak ...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Ct River baby!!!!!!! Fishing Report May 02, 2016

Ct River baby!!!!!!!

Ct River -

Shad and Carp and Stripers o my

o yeah...

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Muskie Adventure Tours "The Brooksy Conquest" Fishing Report Jun 30, 2013

Muskie Adventure Tours "The Brooksy Conquest"

Ct River -

I made a post asking who wanted a Trophy Carp and low and behold Brooksy answered the call. He is a different Man.

1:30am and away we go, Exit ...

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 7 Views:
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Muskie Adventure Tours "Carping for Gold in the Ct River" Fishing Report Sep 16, 2013

Muskie Adventure Tours "Carping for Gold in the Ct River"

Ct River -

It's getting late in the year, but the Carp are still here....

Head West young man is what the phrase used to be when panning for Gold, it ...

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lake lorraine Fishing Report Sep 07, 2009

lake lorraine

springfield,ma -

bass fishing
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Avg. Rating: 2
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Five Mile Pond Fishing Report May 28, 2010

Five Mile Pond

Five mile pnd Springfield,Ma -

Went out early am with friend.Beautiful morning caught 3 lost 1. All rainbow trout biggest 1 was 15" just over 1 1/4 lbs...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Baits and Tackle used near Chicopee

Check Prices

  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • Flies and Jigs
  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • minnows, jig
  • soft plastics to live bait
  • berkley power bait trout nugget
  • shinners
  • Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
  • mixed color senkos

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • eel
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
  • Nightcrallers & worms
  • Live Carwfish

Minnow Check Prices

  • 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.
  • 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Popper
  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Lunker city Salad Spoon
  • Popper, Color Gold and black

Lizard Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz c rig lizard
  • 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • White 3/8 Strike King
  • White rooster tail
  • White Rooster Tail

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

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
  • Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
  • 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
  • Rapala Original
  • Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
  • Rapala blue and white rattle
  • White and Red stick bait

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • test
  • Bait Details

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail
  • meppes
  • rooster tail
  • black Rooster tail
  • little rooster
  • blue fox

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
  • June Bug colored zoom worms
  • Junebug Zoom worm
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • senko
  • I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
  • black senko
  • Zoom Trick worm Color South Africa special
  • Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa Special
  • green pumpkin senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • jig heads / swim tails
  • Senco stretch 40
  • SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD
  • jig heads and swim baits

Hard Baits Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
  • 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.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Gulp Alive
  • litle plastic minnows

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • yellow dancin eel
  • 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
  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
  • Booyah tiger

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • white paddle tail
  • yellow

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • Trout worn with a single split shop weight
  • just night crawlers on small hooks
  • peice of nightcrawler on a hook
  • little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • red craw by bill lewis

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish

Grub Check Prices

  • Orange color grub.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

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

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