Fishing near Fall River in Bristol County, MA

3.58 Rating based on 243 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Striped Bass, Scup (Porgy), Smallmouth Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 155
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 326
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Top Fishing Spots near Fall River

Cook Pond
Cook Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 4
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South Watuppa Pond
South Watuppa Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.667
# Reviews: 6
Views: 12170

North Watuppa Pond
North Watuppa Pond

Avg. Rating: 1.8
# Reviews: 5
Views: 2256

Stafford Pond
Stafford Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
Views: 3852

Mount Hope Bay
Mount Hope Bay

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1654

Creamer Pond
Creamer Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1396

Fall River Area Fish Species

Recent Fall River Fishing Reports

9-12-12 cook  Fishing Report Sep 13, 2012

9-12-12 cook

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started at 6:30 nothing until 10:30 then hit a few small ones ...

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SWAMP THING  Fishing Report Aug 20, 2012

SWAMP THING

cook pond -

HIT UP COOK AROUND 7AM LANDED A 2LB SMALL MOUTH GO FOR THE PHONE TO TAKE A PIC MUST HAVE LEFT IT AT HOME A FEW CAST LATER I GOT A FISH STORY IT HIT TA...

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saturday afternoon Fishing Report Sep 26, 2009

saturday afternoon

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2 nice smallmouths and a few white and yellow perch. very windy but a good afternoon...

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Afternoon Delight Fishing Report May 15, 2012

Afternoon Delight

Cook Pond -

GOt out of work at 4:30 suited up and headed out to Cook Pond in my Hometown of Fall River (you know!!) Met up with my buddy Jeff at the ramp and off ...

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cook pond off shore  Fishing Report Aug 02, 2012

cook pond off shore

cook pond -

to the right of the boat rand caught a few small large mouth ...

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cook pond Fishing Report Aug 29, 2009

cook pond

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caught a 4 pound bass under the dock...

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Baits and Tackle used near Fall River

Check Prices

  • basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
  • i used pogy
  • Watermelon red/gold flake Texas
  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • Worm
  • A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
  • Dat Food,
    Maple Peas,
    Chick Peas
  • shiners

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • Shiners on a bobber
  • live linning pogies
  • pogie chunk
  • sandworms
  • Used some Medium Shinners
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • green crabs
  • porgy
  • greencrabs

Creature Check Prices

  • palm tree red skirt black trunck
  • HIT IT ON A PALM TREE MADE BY KINAMI BAITS
  • baby brush hog (green pumpkin green 1/8 oz bullet head sinker

    palm tree green pumpkin green weight-less
  • using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
  • Flipping a laydown
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • used baby brush hog
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten

Tube Check Prices

  • texas rigged
  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook
  • Fishing bass tube along weed edges and downed trees.

Minnow Check Prices

  • live shiners medium size
  • live shiners and senkos
  • menhaden
  • mumpers
  • Large (heavies) shiners
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • Shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
  • Pencil bait, same as other
  • Topwater pencil bait, shoots down about 1-2 feet when you yank it, then pops back up to the surface.
  • same as bass bait
  • top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
  • 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 only used topwater frogs, black buzz and some weedless ones that I picked up at bass pro. The 22" was cought on a light green weedless frog. One day I'll buy a scale...
  • Rapala Poppers
  • Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.

Lizard Check Prices

  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 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)
  • 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
  • 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
  • Mann's Shadow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear
  • Shad colored 5" Senko
  • Sluggo
  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..
  • yellow spinner colorado blade silver
  • Spinnerbait
    Limit consisted of:
    2lb 5oz
    2lb 4oz
    1lb 15oz
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 6oz
  • All 10 between 1lb - 1-14lb culled or didn't make the cut
  • Mostly between 3lbs-4lbs
  • White Spinner bait with a white Double Tailed Grub trailer
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • caught 7 pickerel and 5 largemouth bass on the following lures: willow/colorado spinnerbait, Zoom Fluke in pearl, Strike King Shim-E-Stick in watermelon green/red flake, and a Stanley Ribbit frog
  • 3 largemouth bass & 1 chain pickerel on a white 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye double-willow spinnerbait
  • neon green spinner bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog
  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits
  • Stanley Ribbit
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Strike King Rage Toad

Squid Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 7in on a jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • silver/red inline spinner

    white/red spot jerk bait
  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • black senko
  • caught it on a greenish senko
  • Senko
    1st Bass 1lb 15oz
    2nd Bass 14oz
  • 1st was 13oz
    2nd was 1lb 10oz
  • Shakey Head
  • My Smallie was 1-1/4lb
    Vinny's was 1lb
  • caught on a senko while fishing for bass
  • brown senko with chartuese tail
  • senko worm brown
    topwater popper
  • Texas rigged 4" watermelon colored worm with a medium action ugly stick.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Yum 5in green pumpkin worm. Also got 3 on shiners ( including the biggest). Got two small ones on yum. 3 bluegill on small lure too.
  • Got 3 bass on shiners( including the biggest). 2 small ones on yum 5 in green pumpkin plastic worm. 5 bluegill on small lure too.
  • Green rattling to Zuri

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • We keep 5 Bass total
    My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
  • Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
    Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber

    Also 2 shorts
  • Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
  • My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
    1-3/4lber
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Two 1-1/4lbers

    also a couple 1lbers, and a short

    Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • Our 5 fish limit was
    2-1/4lbs (Fred)
    1lb 5oz (Fred)
    1lb 2oz (Me)
    two 1lb 1oz (Me)

    Many other between 3-/4 to 1lb
  • Shakey Head, and Drop Shot
    My Keepers were:
    4lb 5oz
    1-1/2lbs
    Two 1lbers

    Paul had 3lber, 1-1/4lbs, a couple 1lbers
  • My 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs
  • Lot's of baits today: topwater, dropshot, senko, spinnerbait, and shakey head.

    My limit was:
    1-1/2lber
    1lb 6oz
    1-1/4lber
    Two 1lbers

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

  • strike king red craw texas rigged

    blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
  • 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
  • weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • 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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Rapala Jerkbait

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • My Limit was:
    2.27lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1lb 10oz
    Two 1-1/2lbers

  • caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
  • Catching them on the bluegill squarebill again.
  • Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King
  • Zoom salamander
    Sunfish crank bait
  • shallow shad rap
  • And Lipless Crank
  • 2 bass on a Rapala floating minnow, 1 pickerel on a spinnerbait
  • bass #1, Bass Pro Shops XPS The Egg wake bait in sexy shad color. bass #2, Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait, 3/8oz white dual nickel willow blades
  • I was using a small baby bass colored crankbait, and reeling it in until it smashed into the bottom, then pausing, and they'd crush it on the pause.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
  • Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  • 3/4lb on Jig
    two 10 inchers on drop shot
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
  • one huge cold nightcrawler
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • 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.

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Crabs, and Squid

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Red and white daredevil
  • medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • zara spoof

Grub Check Prices

  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

  • Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
  • same bait, dough bait
  • Just bread balls
  • porgy snagger
  • Powerbait
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • Black Spinner Bait


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  • Fished pogey chunks
  • Pink Powerbait nuggets

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