Fishing near Dunstable in Middlesex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Smallmouth Bass, Common Carp, Yellow Perch, Bluegill
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Flyrod bass near Dunstable

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5.1 lb bass from Massapoag near Dunstable

5.1 lb bass from Massapoag

Caught on ribbit frog in 3 foot of water near a dock. Biggest fish I ever caught... I had no idea fish that big were in this lake. I have been fishing here since I was a kid.
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What a beast! near Dunstable

What a beast!

Here's another pic of the beast and me!
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Me, Dillon and my 5 pound Lunker!
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Here's Dillon, John and fish at Massapoag!
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Another shot of John and his Pickerel!
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Top Fishing Spots near Dunstable

Pond Street Pond
Pond Street Pond

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Massapoag Pond
Massapoag Pond

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Lovewells Pond
Lovewells Pond

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Cow Pond Book Reservoir
Cow Pond Book Reservoir

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Locust Pond
Locust Pond

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Twin Ponds
Twin Ponds

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Dunstable Area Fish Species

Recent Dunstable Fishing Reports

Upper Massapoag Dunstable Fishing Report Apr 19, 2013

Upper Massapoag Dunstable

Upper Massapoag Lake Dunstable -

Finally got out for the first time this season. We hit Upper Massapoag Lake in Dunstable from 8:30 - noon. That was the first time either of us fish...

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5 lb. Larry Lunker Fishing Report Jul 05, 2010

5 lb. Larry Lunker

Lake Massapoag, Dunstable, MA -

I go here a a lot. I never usually have a 'limit' day, but I usually put 1-2 big fish in the boat a day. This day was no exception... I cau...

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Lovewells Pond - Early Spring Fishing Report Mar 20, 2012

Lovewells Pond - Early Spring

Lovewells Pond - Nashua, NH -

I can't stress enough how much easier this pond would be to fish from a canoe or small boat. The shoreline brambles and overgrowth form a near-sol...

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Lovewells Pond Fishing Report Apr 26, 2012

Lovewells Pond

Lovewells Pond - Nashua, NH -

Still hard as ever to find a spot to fish from shore, but it was worth the try for some quick action....

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Flint Pond - Tyngsboro Fishing Report Jun 01, 2013

Flint Pond - Tyngsboro

Flint Pond - Tyngsboro -

Actually got up at 5am and was ready to roll. Headed over to Flint Pond in Tyngsboro with the Kayak. On the Water at 5:45am. A couple of guys were fis...

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Nashua River Fishing Report Feb 29, 2012

Nashua River

Nashua River -

Just past the bridge on 111 in Hollis. Ample parking. Take time to walk down the path to the little cove and fish anywhere you can cast on your way ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Dunstable

Check Prices

  • mepps lure
  • Rooster Tail
  • Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters
  • plastics
  • Look for the ramp, it a little one!
  • i used corn
  • Won't let me add photo
  • fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
  • live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
  • P.bait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Bobber & Shiner.
  • Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
  • A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • Large Minnows
  • Large and XL Shiners
  • used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
    Yellow
    Sherbert
  • Big Shinner
  • Perch work the best or Big Shinners
  • Shinners

Creature Check Prices

  • My 2 Bass were:
    14in 1lb 2oz
    12.5in 13oz
  • all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
  • 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.
  • Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
  • Creature baits and senkos around docks.
  • More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
  • 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

Tube Check Prices

  • T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
    White Ice Zoom Small tube
    White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
  • minitube flourescent
  • june bug tube
  • pumpkin seed tube
  • 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
  • salt and pepper purple flake tube
  • Chartreuse pepper flack tube
  • June Bug tube
  • june bug tubes
  • purple smoke tube
    salt and pepper flake tube
    june bug tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shine on and dropped.
  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
  • We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
  • actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
  • Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
  • Live Shiner
  • Live Minnows
  • Live minnows
  • Live minnow
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
  • Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
  • Though I have caught a few bass on various lures here so far, topwaters seem to be the most productive by far. It makes sense when you think about. Go down to Fairhaven on a summer night and just try and count the splashes on the surface. I lost count somewhere around 20.
  • FROG
  • Black buzzbait with a black blade
  • Popper
  • Zara Spook Baby Bass
  • Bone Zara spook
  • 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
  • Zara spook and jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

  • Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • green w/ red fleck
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-Go
  • 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
  • 8" & 10" Largemouth
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • Two 1lb Pickerel
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
  • Senko

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • red
  • tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
  • Spinner
    Blue-fox
    Yellow
  • I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.
  • Chartuese w/ Green
  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)
  • Fire Tiger, Double Willow
  • strike king 3/8 oz spinner
  • 1/2 oz. chartreuse shad rocket
  • 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Ribbit frog
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
  • 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.
  • Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
    1lber on Frog at Heard
  • caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Trolling main channel
  • 5" Yamamoto green
    1/4 oz Crankbait
  • powerbait nuggets
  • gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
  • Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
  • X-Rap
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
    2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
    3rd was 8in
  • Jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 13in 1lb
    2nd was 12in 11oz
    3rd was 11.5in 10oz
  • Rapala Original Silver

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
  • Gold Vibrafox #2
  • Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
  • Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
  • Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
  • White Rooster Tail
  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
  • 1/4 ounce
  • silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • shad darts

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • Sadly my only Bass of the day, and it was to small
  • 6" Yamamoto Senko black/pink worm
  • Orange was the color of the day
  • Zoom Watermelon Seed
  • purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
  • Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  • Trick worm on a shaky head and a drop shot rig with a powerbait minnow.
  • "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  • Red Senko took it on the fall on the fall
  • My Friend and I used Power and Zoom worms. Caught 8 tiny LMBs. 4 a piece.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
  • Black worm with bright yellow tail
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
  • yum 5" monny minnows white
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • 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

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • Senko and Dropshot
  • .
  • Drop Shot
  • Shaky Head
  • Jigs, Worms, Cranks
    Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
    Many shorts caught
  • one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
  • pitching into the pads with a craw
  • My Best 5:
    Two 2lbers
    1-1/2lber
    1-1/4lber
    1lber
  • Worms, Jigs, and 1 on topwater early

    My contribution to the limit was a 3-1/2lber

    The rest were 2lbs to 3/4lbs mostly

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
  • Rubber worms frogs,spinners
    All worked
  • senkos
  • Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
  • Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook & trout worm.
  • 4" black and blue yum dinger
  • 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
  • Koppers livetarget frog
    scumfrog little bigfoot frog
    zoom super fluke
  • 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

Craw Check Prices

  • Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
  • Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
  • Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
  • Yum black/blue craw
  • crawdads and soft frogs
  • Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

  • Our Limit was :
    My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz

    1lb and under on the rest
  • 11" on Shaky Head
    15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
  • jig n pig
  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
  • Ice Jig
  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
  • Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
  • purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
  • Same details as Bass 1
  • Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
  • Same as Bass 1
  • rapala wounded minnow
  • Shiners are cheating here...
    Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
  • Silver body with a black back

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.

    Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
  • Black n blue jig n pig
  • Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
  • pumpkin
  • 3lb 4oz
    A couple 3lbers
    A couple 2-3/4blers
    Half a dozen 2-1/2lbers
    A dozen 2lbers
    ...so many fish! I lost count!
  • black and blue with blue craw trailer
  • Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
  • One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  • 1st was 1lb 3oz
    2nd was 2lb 5oz
  • rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
  • white
  • Reaction Innovations
    4.5" Little Dipper
  • Berkeley GULP!
  • Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
  • 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
  • I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
  • Up on the more northern end of things, we hooked into a few Landlocked salmon bites. Mostly smaller guys, but a few just keepers. Dad hit them on a variety of lures, but all mine came in on Little Cleo spoons. Another species crossed off the bucket list!

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies
  • Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Brass 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
  • Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
  • Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
  • Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook, sent to the bottom.
  • Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook sent to the bottom.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Greyish, green, red face
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • rattler
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper
  • My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
  • Daredevil
  • Chatterbait
  • chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • Dropshotting
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Dough Ball

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

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

  • Feed corn and dat food were on the menu. We also tried chick peas, canned corn, luncheon meat, a coupld of pack/dough baits.

    We chummed a mix or bread crumb, hemp meal, pineapple soda and other such ingredients.

  • We had many things on hand, oatmeal, boilies, chick peas, feed corn, birdseed and grits based pack/method mixes, dog food, maple peas...

    In the end most fish were caught on Chick peas, followed by Dat food (strawberry) with one on Simon's pineapple birdseed "cake" boilie.
  • 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.

  • Bread Balls and Canned Corn
  • My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
  • Dat food and chick peas performed well once again. Maple peas had a run but we lost the fish.
  • We used Chartreuse Powerbait Nuggets with a 3/4 ounce weight.
  • Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.
  • We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.
  • a mixture of ice tips using minnows , power eggs( can't tell you the color) and a mixture of lures .....

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